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Just a thought?
Have you tried going into your BIOS and disabling
Memory Caching for your video card
and BIOS? As well as any other enabled
devices. I have also swapped memory sticks
and that has helped some memory
problems.
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kelols
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Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 8:33
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Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group]
Crashes
I've installed Version 8.01 and it didn't fix the crash
problem I have. Mine seems to center around a conflict in upper memory.
When Metastock is trying to rewrite certain data, it runs into problems
with addresses that are already filled, it gets confused and then you
get an Mwin error default. I solved part of the problem by changing
how metastock gets the number of periods needed. I use the the choose
periods options instead of dates. I've also found that the number
of crashes is dependent on which systems are in use and how much upper
memory appears to be used. A couple of times I've been able to find the
block of memory that had the conflict; however, that's not going to help
solve the problem. It only provides clues. It's a hard problem to
fix and to even duplicate because every version of windows uses different
upper memory management methods and each video card presents a separate
set of problems.Of course, I could be wrong and this is just a symptom
of something else. From what I've seen using 8.01 it doesn't solve all of
the crash problems. It might solve some. It used to crash on me after I
had 7 or 8 charts loaded so I had to start all over which made me
really unhappy. I've also found that if I slow down my mouse
clicks when I'm doing an operation that requires upper memory shuffle, I
have fewer crashes. I'm down to about two crashes a day. Some people I've
talked to use 7.2 because it is more stable. I don't know. I haven't used
it with my systems. Technical support has been of little help with
this one. They're okay at answering questions when you're new to metastock
and can't figure out some of the less than intuitive ways they've
approached problems, but when you bring them real technical issues they
can't give you any real help. They want you to duplicate everything for
them, and even when you do, most of them are young and don't have much
experience with previous versions of windows or other operating systems.
(Some I think some techs don't know other operating systems exist,
especially graphical interfaces.) They're nice and always there so I can't
say anything about support. By the time someone gets to the point where
they really know what's going on, they aren't answering phone calls
anymore, and then the people who do anwer the phones filter what the
experienced people hear so it's a slow process to get change.
Metastock people are a lot better than some of the support people I
talk to. A lot of TS people can't do more than read step 1,2,3 off of
the help desk software screen. When you tell them that's not the
problem, they insist you follow the steps exactly as they've outlined.
Morons! My basic opinion is we're along way from getting a windows
operating system and software that will be really stable. There's just too
much going on there. I'm getting ready to build a new computer, and I'm
going to try some things you don't normally find on home computers to
see if it will help with some of these problem. It won't happen until
latter in the year, but if anything works, I'll post it. Don't get
your hopes up, not much fixes windows problems--except hackers.For
what's it's worth, when I was writing code for main frames in the
seventies, I crashed them a lot more often than I do Windows NT and
2000. However, it does seem to take about the same amount of time to
recover.Happy Hair pulling and
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