On 09:08 PM 3/09/2002 -0400, Robert M. Wolfe said: >Yup, >On Win2KPro. >Same here and random, it does hang, >and lately sometimes it even blows you out of >Protel while compacting and does not complete >the compact so I have to do it manually. >But so far no show stopper just very annoying. >Bob Wolfe
Win2k SP2 here and I have not had Protel hang on shutdown for a very long time. (Actually haven't had Protel crash for ages either). PIII-450 (yes, a dinosaur) (you should see DXP run on this!) 256M RAM 100BaseT network Matrox G550 Canon Inkjet printer locally A number of network (shared) printers on other computers or set to dump to FILE: CDRW (with the dreaded Roxio software, Easy CD Creator 4) Office 2000 (with FP and Access installed) Adobe Acrobat 4.05 (Distiller and Maker both installed) McAfee Virus Scan on but I thought I had turned off file scanning (on open/create/modify etc) but I just checked and inbound files are auto scanned - this means any file modified or copied by this or other computer id scanned on the fly. In the past I have found McAfee causes Protel to hang if the file scanning options are enabled. (Don't you hate the cutesy HTML style look of the new McAfee and Norton virus scanners!) Machine is on 24/7 with occasional shutdowns when I am going away or am installing new hardware (maybe once every month or so). Protel is shutdown and restarted about once a day when I am Protelling. I do *not* bother closing DDBs before closing usually - since I do not have a problem with closing down. Dunno what MDAC drivers I have, but they have been updated somewhere along the line. MySQL is installed as is buckets of dev tools (MS and Borland) etc etc etc. If someone lets me know how to find the MDAC drivers I can post them. In Protel I use -Sch, SchLib, PCB, PCBLib, SIM, Text Edit, CamManager. I use Access-format DDBs. P99SE SP6. Compact on close is enabled. That is about it. There is probably a method of dumping a machine configuration and then those unfortunate souls having problems may be able to try to determine the differences. Actually, Altium should try to get as many of these dumps and ratings of stability and try to determine why their program shows the huge variation in stability that us users see. I do run the Windows update service every so often (every couple of weeks) and get the next few Mbytes of security patches. Ian Wilson ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: 0E8DF04121A1F34EBF50E8F46691D46369C179B9 * ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
