Vacuuming Tool?

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Jim Thompson

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Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?

(*) Found the cause of my peculiar crashes... when you run out of RAM
XP doesn't respond gracefully.

With Windows Explorer, Eudora, Agent, and The Calendar Planner open
I'm now using 555MB out of 982MB available... No wonder I'd get a
crash when I had only 512MB and then tried to open Excel as well ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
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Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?
Click to expand...
A paint brush........ !
 
Jim Thompson wrote:
Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?

(*) Found the cause of my peculiar crashes... when you run out of RAM
XP doesn't respond gracefully.

With Windows Explorer, Eudora, Agent, and The Calendar Planner open
I'm now using 555MB out of 982MB available... No wonder I'd get a
crash when I had only 512MB and then tried to open Excel as well ;-)

...Jim Thompson
something wrong with your swap file then.
Click to expand...
did you by any chance turn it off? or are you short on Disk space?



--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5
 
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:05:21 -0500, Jamie
<jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?

(*) Found the cause of my peculiar crashes... when you run out of RAM
XP doesn't respond gracefully.

With Windows Explorer, Eudora, Agent, and The Calendar Planner open
I'm now using 555MB out of 982MB available... No wonder I'd get a
crash when I had only 512MB and then tried to open Excel as well ;-)

...Jim Thompson
something wrong with your swap file then.
did you by any chance turn it off?
Click to expand...
Not that I know of. Looks like I've left everything there as default.

or are you short on Disk space?
Click to expand...
Nope. Using 21GB out of 80GB available.

I never had such peculiarities until I moved "up" to WinXp Pro from
Win2K. I'm sorry I ever did that.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
message news:gf0qr21h5e06qer2bgr7m6fabnag534htb@4ax.com...
Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?

(*) Found the cause of my peculiar crashes... when you run out of RAM
XP doesn't respond gracefully.

With Windows Explorer, Eudora, Agent, and The Calendar Planner open
I'm now using 555MB out of 982MB available... No wonder I'd get a
crash when I had only 512MB and then tried to open Excel as well ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Click to expand...

XP with windows explorer, Outlook, Google, LTspice, MPlab.
Total commited = 230MB. (I think I've 250Mb fitted ).
Only memory probs come when the obnoxious window "helper" thing decides to
load itself.
john




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Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:05:21 -0500, Jamie
jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> wrote:



(*) Found the cause of my peculiar crashes... when you run out of RAM
XP doesn't respond gracefully.

With Windows Explorer, Eudora, Agent, and The Calendar Planner open
I'm now using 555MB out of 982MB available... No wonder I'd get a
crash when I had only 512MB and then tried to open Excel as well ;-)

...Jim Thompson

something wrong with your swap file then.
did you by any chance turn it off?


Not that I know of. Looks like I've left everything there as default.


or are you short on Disk space?


Nope. Using 21GB out of 80GB available.

I never had such peculiarities until I moved "up" to WinXp Pro from
Win2K. I'm sorry I ever did that.

...Jim Thompson
Hmm, well this box i'm currently on is a W2k and it's been nothing but
Click to expand...
smooth sailing here.

--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5
 
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:05:21 -0500, Jamie
jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?

(*) Found the cause of my peculiar crashes... when you run out of RAM
XP doesn't respond gracefully.

With Windows Explorer, Eudora, Agent, and The Calendar Planner open
I'm now using 555MB out of 982MB available... No wonder I'd get a
crash when I had only 512MB and then tried to open Excel as well ;-)

...Jim Thompson
something wrong with your swap file then.
did you by any chance turn it off?

Not that I know of. Looks like I've left everything there as default.

or are you short on Disk space?

Nope. Using 21GB out of 80GB available.

I never had such peculiarities until I moved "up" to WinXp Pro from
Win2K. I'm sorry I ever did that.
Click to expand...
I think WinXP is still susceptible to cumulative memory leaks. It seems
like it gets bogged down (and even refuses to do some things) after it's
been running for several days. Then when I try to shut it down, it hangs
until I tap the power button, then it sometimes hangs again until I do the
5 second power-off reset. Then it's usually good to go for a while again.
Well behaved programs probably don't cause memory leaks, but I do
programming, which sometimes results in access errors and memory leaks when
debugging. It's a lot more stable than WinMe, however!

Paul
 
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:55:08 -0500, "Paul E. Schoen"
<pstech@smart.net> wrote:

"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
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[snip]

I never had such peculiarities until I moved "up" to WinXp Pro from
Win2K. I'm sorry I ever did that.


I think WinXP is still susceptible to cumulative memory leaks. It seems
like it gets bogged down (and even refuses to do some things) after it's
been running for several days. Then when I try to shut it down, it hangs
until I tap the power button, then it sometimes hangs again until I do the
5 second power-off reset.
Click to expand...
Same experience here. I never shut down until it hangs. Then I often
have to resort to the reset button approach to kill it.

Then it's usually good to go for a while again.
Click to expand...
Yep.

Well behaved programs probably don't cause memory leaks, but I do
programming, which sometimes results in access errors and memory leaks when
debugging. It's a lot more stable than WinMe, however!

Paul
Click to expand...
But less stable than Win2K in my experience.

The PSpice machine with Win2K Pro, AMD CPU, NEVER hangs or crashes.
Only reboots needed are for program installs.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
Paul E. Schoen wrote:

"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
message news:a64qr2hhcu1ik7d3r18vthkh5u2a154v9e@4ax.com...

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:05:21 -0500, Jamie
jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> wrote:


Jim Thompson wrote:

Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?

(*) Found the cause of my peculiar crashes... when you run out of RAM
XP doesn't respond gracefully.

With Windows Explorer, Eudora, Agent, and The Calendar Planner open
I'm now using 555MB out of 982MB available... No wonder I'd get a
crash when I had only 512MB and then tried to open Excel as well ;-)

...Jim Thompson

something wrong with your swap file then.
did you by any chance turn it off?

Not that I know of. Looks like I've left everything there as default.


or are you short on Disk space?

Nope. Using 21GB out of 80GB available.

I never had such peculiarities until I moved "up" to WinXp Pro from
Win2K. I'm sorry I ever did that.



I think WinXP is still susceptible to cumulative memory leaks. It seems
like it gets bogged down (and even refuses to do some things) after it's
been running for several days. Then when I try to shut it down, it hangs
until I tap the power button, then it sometimes hangs again until I do the
5 second power-off reset. Then it's usually good to go for a while again.
Well behaved programs probably don't cause memory leaks, but I do
programming, which sometimes results in access errors and memory leaks when
debugging. It's a lot more stable than WinMe, however!

Paul


I think the box was better in the off state than trying to use ME! :)
Click to expand...


--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5
 
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
message news:gf0qr21h5e06qer2bgr7m6fabnag534htb@4ax.com...
Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.
Click to expand...
Jim, did you try canned air? I immobilize the fan then blow the dust out.

On an old Vaio laptop, the pads between the GPU and the CPU to the fan
duct had both dried out. The result was excessive heating and system
shutdowns. A shot of thermal grease, appropriately placed, solved the
problem.
 
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:55:08 -0500, "Paul E. Schoen"
<pstech@smart.net> wrote:

"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
message news:a64qr2hhcu1ik7d3r18vthkh5u2a154v9e@4ax.com...
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:05:21 -0500, Jamie
jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?

(*) Found the cause of my peculiar crashes... when you run out of RAM
XP doesn't respond gracefully.

With Windows Explorer, Eudora, Agent, and The Calendar Planner open
I'm now using 555MB out of 982MB available... No wonder I'd get a
crash when I had only 512MB and then tried to open Excel as well ;-)

...Jim Thompson
something wrong with your swap file then.
did you by any chance turn it off?

Not that I know of. Looks like I've left everything there as default.

or are you short on Disk space?

Nope. Using 21GB out of 80GB available.

I never had such peculiarities until I moved "up" to WinXp Pro from
Win2K. I'm sorry I ever did that.


I think WinXP is still susceptible to cumulative memory leaks. It seems
like it gets bogged down (and even refuses to do some things) after it's
been running for several days. Then when I try to shut it down, it hangs
until I tap the power button, then it sometimes hangs again until I do the
5 second power-off reset. Then it's usually good to go for a while again.
Well behaved programs probably don't cause memory leaks, but I do
programming, which sometimes results in access errors and memory leaks when
debugging. It's a lot more stable than WinMe, however!

Paul
Click to expand...
My new Alienware PC has a reset button! And a bios option, set by
default, that makes the power button work instantly. PLUS it has a
real AC-line power switch on the back.

DIE, Windows, DIE!

And it does look like XP should be rebooted often, daily or so, to
reset accumulated damage. At least it comes up pretty quick, 30
seconds or so. 2K took minutes.

Have I mentioned lately that all things Microsoft are crap?

John
 
Lord Garth wrote:

"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
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Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.



Jim, did you try canned air? I immobilize the fan then blow the dust out.
Click to expand...
The WAF of that method is usually not high enough because when you blow
the dust out it sails off onto other objects around you.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
 
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:36:19 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

Lord Garth wrote:

"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
message news:gf0qr21h5e06qer2bgr7m6fabnag534htb@4ax.com...

Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.



Jim, did you try canned air? I immobilize the fan then blow the dust out.


The WAF of that method is usually not high enough because when you blow
the dust out it sails off onto other objects around you.
Click to expand...
I'm going to Ace and buy several brass tubes, sweat them into a
tapered nozzle with a small-diameter flexible rubber hose to the
vacuum... in fact that suggests that automotive vacuum hose might be
perfect because it won't collapse.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
Jim Thompson wrote:
Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?
Click to expand...
Yeah, it's called an air compressor. Take the silly thing outside,
and blow the dirt out. I do it to my computers every few years.

-Chuck
 
Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:36:19 GMT, Joerg
notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:


Lord Garth wrote:


"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
message news:gf0qr21h5e06qer2bgr7m6fabnag534htb@4ax.com...


Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.



Jim, did you try canned air? I immobilize the fan then blow the dust out.


The WAF of that method is usually not high enough because when you blow
the dust out it sails off onto other objects around you.


I'm going to Ace and buy several brass tubes, sweat them into a
tapered nozzle with a small-diameter flexible rubber hose to the
vacuum... in fact that suggests that automotive vacuum hose might be
perfect because it won't collapse.
Click to expand...
Automotive hose is usually quite unwieldy. When I clean the soot out of
our pellet stove vent I use normal clear plastic hose, also from Ace. Of
course, I make sure that the stove has not run for several days.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
 
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:12:58 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?

(*) Found the cause of my peculiar crashes... when you run out of RAM
XP doesn't respond gracefully.

With Windows Explorer, Eudora, Agent, and The Calendar Planner open
I'm now using 555MB out of 982MB available... No wonder I'd get a
crash when I had only 512MB and then tried to open Excel as well ;-)

...Jim Thompson
Click to expand...
I use an air compressor. For getting into power supplies, I stick a
soda straw (like the straws used on WD40) on the end of the nozzle.
You need to prevent the fans from turning by jamming another straw in
the blades.

My bosses XP based laptop used to crash a lot due insufficient memory.
Microsoft Office programs have massive memory leaks since they don't
use the M$ approved method of shutting down programs. Perhaps they
have fixed that in newer releases. Acrobat has major problems when a
machine runs out of real memory. Another memory hog are anti virus
programs. They can grab 100MB of RAM if you add up all the little
programs they run.

---
Mark
 
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:05:21 -0500, Jamie
jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.

Anyone know of tools made for the purpose?

(*) Found the cause of my peculiar crashes... when you run out of RAM
XP doesn't respond gracefully.

With Windows Explorer, Eudora, Agent, and The Calendar Planner open
I'm now using 555MB out of 982MB available... No wonder I'd get a
crash when I had only 512MB and then tried to open Excel as well ;-)

...Jim Thompson
something wrong with your swap file then.
did you by any chance turn it off?

Not that I know of. Looks like I've left everything there as default.

or are you short on Disk space?

Nope. Using 21GB out of 80GB available.

I never had such peculiarities until I moved "up" to WinXp Pro from
Win2K. I'm sorry I ever did that.
Click to expand...
Well MS has a new OS out, so sure things tend to go south when MS has
something ready. One indicator seems to be the auto hide function on the
task bar. When it no longer works, MS has a new OS ready ;)

Cheers
 
"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message
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Lord Garth wrote:

"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
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Adding RAM(*), I discovered dust down in the fins of the CPU heat
exchanger.

Fan blades too closely spaced to get a standard vacuum tool to reach
the fins.

So I improvised, using a soda straw held into the opening of my Dust
Devil hand-held.

Worked, but somewhat a PITA.



Jim, did you try canned air? I immobilize the fan then blow the dust
out.


The WAF of that method is usually not high enough because when you blow
the dust out it sails off onto other objects around you.
Click to expand...
I only notice that if it's an especially dirty desktop computer. I then
take it to the back door
and use the air compressor to clean it out.

The dirt from a small laptop fan, no problem, the suspension ceiling drops
more
that amount of dirt in a day.
 
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:36:19 GMT, Joerg
notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

Lord Garth wrote:

Jim, did you try canned air? I immobilize the fan then blow the dust
out.



I'm going to Ace and buy several brass tubes, sweat them into a
tapered nozzle with a small-diameter flexible rubber hose to the
vacuum... in fact that suggests that automotive vacuum hose might be
perfect because it won't collapse.
Click to expand...
Surgical tubing shouldn't either but I still believe blowing it out is
better than sucking
it off the fan.
 
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:03:41 -0700, the renowned Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:55:08 -0500, "Paul E. Schoen"
pstech@smart.net> wrote:


"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
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[snip]

I never had such peculiarities until I moved "up" to WinXp Pro from
Win2K. I'm sorry I ever did that.


I think WinXP is still susceptible to cumulative memory leaks. It seems
like it gets bogged down (and even refuses to do some things) after it's
been running for several days. Then when I try to shut it down, it hangs
until I tap the power button, then it sometimes hangs again until I do the
5 second power-off reset.

Same experience here. I never shut down until it hangs. Then I often
have to resort to the reset button approach to kill it.

Then it's usually good to go for a while again.

Yep.

Well behaved programs probably don't cause memory leaks, but I do
programming, which sometimes results in access errors and memory leaks when
debugging. It's a lot more stable than WinMe, however!

Paul


But less stable than Win2K in my experience.

The PSpice machine with Win2K Pro, AMD CPU, NEVER hangs or crashes.
Only reboots needed are for program installs.

...Jim Thompson
Click to expand...
The only true crashes I've seen under Win2K pro are when the graphics
card runs of memory, and then it is not very graceful at all.

... back in the cold. 8-(


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
 
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