Strange as it may seem, have you tried the following: - selecting a different default printer or update it's drivers.
- don't run Outlook while 99SE is running. - check that there aren't any other apps running (like office quick start, etc). - update your video driver. - do they have the same brand/type/speed CPU? Maybe they handle calculation floating point exception errors differently? - errors can occur in Cache memory as well, so check that as well. Bad cache memory can cause some very weird errors to occur. - turn off the virus checker (with the network disconnected :-) Mark Hearworks Australia > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Saputelli > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 12:42 AM > To: Protel EDA Discussion List > Subject: Re: [PEDA] 99SE crashing > > > hi all > > i have 99SE on 3 different boxes, all pretty similar, all WIN2K > > on one machine i am getting a pretty consistent & serious > problem, but not on the others > > i have a part (PCB component) which is a pin 1 indicator > > it is a triangle made of 6 or so tracks all on the top overlay > > (there are no other 'normal' PCB primitives such as pads) > > on this one box, quite consistently when i copy one of these > to the clipboard and paste it around on the SECOND > (somethimes third) paste operation i get the hour glass and > protel has gone into la la land > > i waited almost 30 mins for it to recover (i have seen it > recover from some 'crashes') but it would not > > during the protel 'hour glass' crash i noted 100% CPU usage in taskman > > after rebooting my board was pretty scrambled and of course > all unsaved work was lost > > so not to let this go i repeated the operation, this after a > fresh boot, and bang, crashed again exactly as before on the > second paste > > rebooted again and decided not to paste that thing around anymore :) > > then i grabbed a mounting hole (component) and pasted it and > on the first paste i was crashed again > > went to my other boxes and could not reproduce the problem > with the same board, same component and same operations > > any ideas ? > > Dennis Saputelli > > > ______________________________________________________________ > _________ > Integrated Controls, Inc. Tel: 415-647-0480 EXT 107 > 2851 21st Street Fax: 415-647-3003 > San Francisco, CA 94110 www.integratedcontrolsinc.com > > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
