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Faulty memory is a bigger problem than you can imagine. I've had it happen
twice. Think about memory more like a lightbulb and you can see that if your
computer is on all the time, something is going to eventually burn out.
It's hot where I am here in California, and I don't use A/C. The machine
room here gets upwards of 90F in the summer, occasionally topping 100F.
Last year I blew a machine and thought I had killed the main board so
I replaced it. Turns out that I had killed some of the RAM *and* killed
some of the circuits on the LAN card that would cause intermittent
crashes just like you described. I went through the same kind of hair
pulling and hand wringing before deciding to go with a new board.
Fortunately the new board used different SIMMS so I was forced to buy
new memory.
Two things I recommend for ferreting out these kinds of problems:
QAPLUS - a system diagnostic program and
SPINRITE - a disk diagnostic program.
Both, run weekly and at the first sign of trouble can save you lots
of pain and suffering. QA should get any system/memory problems (it
found all of mine) and Spinrite should nab any disk problems. Be advised
that bad disk problems and memory problems can have very similar symptoms.
Phil
BMYNARD@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> Hi, I am writing this to all users of TS to hopefully help someone avoid the
> 1 year nightmare I went through with TS that led me to want to alternatively
> destroy my PC, Omega or both. My machine kept crashing every day with GPF 's
> in module unknown and everyother place , I had regular CTREE errors that
> destroyed my ability to collect data and so backtest ideas or even produce a
> chart, on many days I could not rebuild my tick file upon opening TS .God, i
> was crazed I could hardly trade . Eventually even Omega got fed up with my
> ranting and i sent the machine to them , they could not solve it , maybe it
> was the TPort card then the modem was causing weird problems and it wouldn't
> work with the modem in , this was with both TS 3.5 and TS4 . My machine was a
> Gateway P60 , they couldn't help . So i decided after FDisking the machine
> and reloading the software which didn't help to buy a new machine . To save
> money ( stupid idea) i took out my then expensive 40 mb of RAM , 32 bought
> from a local company and got a new machine with that in it. Upon loading the
> ram the computer shop spotted a rare problem , I had a faulty ram chip. It
> was the worse kind , it was an intermittent problem . So the machine would
> boot up fine but during the day as the ram was slowly used it would glitch,
> every f****** day. There was no pattern except everyone thought i was cursed
> ( BTW my hard drive crashed twice in 6 months , so much for 10 years MTBF).
> The point of this email, if you have endless problems it probably isn't TS (
> although God I used to go to bed dreaming of blowing up Omega) , take your
> machine to a computer store and let them look at it or just buy a new one,
> the cost is less than the pain of a faulty machine.
>
> Regards
> Brian
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