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Whew...that is SCARY. Critical to know: Are your hard drives....NTFS or
FAT32 formatted ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Alford [mailto:chris.alford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:53 PM
> To: Omega-List
> Cc: Mark Stewart
> Subject: Re: More TL...no, a TS2k problem
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I've been a little burnt by Win2000 upgrade as well.
>
> I had my TS2000 working fine under NT (on Dell 420 dual CPU) with
> Neuroshell and
> other software. If I had the choice (as Mark Brown suggests) I
> would still run
> NT. To run an upgraded data feed (in Australia) I also needed
> to upgrade to
> Win2000 to get USB support.
>
> Well the machine started to crash once or twice each morning
> around market opening
> when I was crunching my numbers, but never seemingly in a
> pattern. The data
> supplier thought it was a component failing. The machine would
> also die if the
> decoder was switched off. Wasn't sure if this was a USB "feature" or not.
>
> I have been reading with interest the woes of others on the list and their
> suggestions:
>
> (1) Supplier provided an upgrade of the bit decoder - no effect
> (2) Remove Win2000 SP1 - no effect
> (3) Disable a CPU - loathe to do this
> (4) Graphics card problems - I had all the Dell patches for
> Win2000 installed
>
> Over the weekend I had to reinstall Win2000 to eliminate any
> likely errors with a
> virus that had got past Norton. I also increased my total page
> files from about
> 1.2GB to 1.5GB.
>
> But the other thing I did was defragment my disks (using the
> Win2000 defrag), and
> now find the machine has not crashed the past few days!
>
> How to explain that? I can't - but folk may want to add swap
> file size and defrag
> as option (5).
>
> Hope this might help others on the list. Appreciate the war
> stories that have been
> published on the list. Like most of you I only want to trade,
> not get messed around
> by the OS or whatever. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
>
> Chris
>
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