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Looks like we've finally got a winner with SP4b !
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Watkins [mailto:mwatkins@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 12:17 AM
> To: Larry Wright; M. Simms
> Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Adding TS 2000i
>
>
> Larry,
>
> I used to experience instablity but found the following to work
> pretty well:
>
> - NT rev'ed up to SP5 or SP6
> - Save your indicators and data (I killed all of mine but only
> out of a fit
> of madness)
> - Uninstall TS completely
> - Install TS2000i SP3
> - Install SP4b
> - reload indicators/data
>
> I am now able to plot multiple data streams per chart without
> crashing, and
> honestly have had only one TS crash since reinstalling. That's by far a
> record. In fact, on an EOD basis, the product is working flawlessly for me
> right now.
>
> Intraday charting the EMINI SP/Nas, that's another story. But for stocks
> live and EOD, was having zero issues worth mentioning.
>
> Cheers
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Wright [mailto:lwright@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 4:15 PM
> To: M. Simms
> Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Adding TS 2000i
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, M. Simms wrote:
>
> > Together with other software running at the same time (over 10
> services in
> > the bottom bar !)
> > TS2000i SP3 runs large backtests fine under Win98.....PII/450 +
> 256mb ram
> +
> > UDMA hard drive.
>
> OK - what's your secret? With SP3 under NT4, I've crashed about 20 times
> today with just two small workspaces. Here are the symptoms of the day:
>
> Reboot, start server, wait a while, Fire up TS100, "open previous ws's".
>
> One or more charts say "No data available for the selected date range",
> even though all 3 charts have EXACTLY the same data, over EXACTLY the same
> date range. [oops - gives one the usual sinking feeling of impending
> trouble] Go to offending chart, click data, looks OK, click OK, says
> "Waiting for data", and chart finally comes up.
>
> Aha, I think, I can finally get to work. Try to add another indicator to
> a chart, crunches a while, and CRASH - good old Dr Watson does his thing
> again, dumping info about the crash.
>
> Repeat the above with minor variations.
>
> After a while, I even completely redo the workspace, as per the usual
> generic Omega advice: "Get new data, redo all your workspaces, reinstall
> TS, reboot, and maybe that will fix it." Nope - still there.
>
> Some people count sheep to try to get to sleep. My mind has Dr Watson
> screens coming up - first one, then another, and another, and another,
> into the wee hours of the morning :-).
>
> Hey, folks, sheep are better...
>
> Bahhhhh... Bahhhh.... [the sheep don't like it either]
>
> What do you do to get it to work? I'd sure like to know...
>
> Larry
>
>
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