Richard I don't think that there is an event log on win98SE.
The fact that you have tried it on another machine and it hasn't failed is good news. I can recommend the following: Make sure that all maintenance available from Microsoft is installed I really think that the hard drive of the drive controller is going south.. Is it an Ultra DMA hard drive without and Ultra DMA cable? (this problem drove me nuts for about 3 months) It may be a power supply problem. I learned the hard way that computer power supplies are not created equal. Look very very closely at the power ratings. Some of the wattages are combined. Can you get a new harddrive and do a total reinstall of Win98SE (I highly recommend XP Home--the software is almost 4 years newer than Win98). Also, with an event log, it makes it easier to track problems like this. I also think that you will find XP faster than Win98SE. Unfortunately, there isn't an easy solution here. Your just going to have to keep trying things until it goes away. 73... Mike VA3MW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard L. King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "VA3MW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Lost data > My follow-up comments are below. > > At 10:42 1/22/03 -0500, VA3MW wrote: > >Richard > > > >What OS are you running this on? > > I should have mentioned this before. I am running Win98 SE on a Dell 450mHz > machine using 352M of RAM. The computer is on a UPS and isn't affected by > power glitches. > > > >If it is XP or Win2k have you checked the event log to see if there are disk > >failures. > > Can this be done on Win98? If so I would need a little guidance. > > > >On the surface, it sounds like it not a DX4Win issue. > > This is probably true. > > > >Tell us more. Have you tried running this on another computer to see if you > >get the same errors? You might want to send the log to somone else and see > >if they have the same problem. > > I have run it briefly on my wife's machine, Win2K on a Dell 1.2Gig machine. > No failures there. > > But that doesn't mean much since I use DX4WIN everyday on my machine and do > many, many saves and shutdowns without failure anyway. The problem is > highly intermittent. > > No my wife won't let me have her computer to use permanently. She's no > dummy. It would be very hard to move computers around anyway in the hamshack. > > > >How big is the log file? > > The log file is about 6.6MB large. I am still hunting for some old computer > logs and I am sure I can get it to 100K QSOs soon. > > > >Mike Walker VA3MW > >DX Cluster telnet://portcredit.net:41112 > > As you said this is probably not a DX4WIN issue. It is more a how-to-backup > and recover issue. > > 73, Richard > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
