Jim, thanks for your info. it saves a lot of other questions and
slams the door on some possibilities. I'm not familiar with the
settings for your particular video card though that may be at issue. I
do however have a question about the level of the environment. are
you running windows.95? I can't remember if it was in your last
message and don't see it here. if you are running windows.95, do you
have all the latest patches for it? also, what versions of the
programs other than wp 8 which by the way I love and take my hat off
to you for using do you have?
you succintly and graciously answerd my nosie questions with:
Jim Dorman wrote:
>
> Complete? I'll do my best. I used to make a living working on computers,
> but that was when the command line interface was the norm. Windows always
> seems to be too complicated for its own good. Anyway, here's what I have.
>
> Pentium 2 at 300 MHz
> 128 megs of RAM
> 6.4 gig hard disk with almost 5 gigs free
> Video is a Matrox Millenium G200 with 8 megs of onboard SRAM at 250 MHz
> running 640x480
> IDE controller
> Adaptec SCSI controller running a Yamaha CD-RW drive
> AOpen 56k modem
> HP scanner on USB
> Windows 98
> JFW 3.2
> ZoomText Xtra Level 1 (JFW and ZT never run concurrently)
> WordPerfect 8
>
> The problems come most often in Netscape, and it doesn't seem to matter if
> other applications are running. The only pattern is that some web pages
> will crash, and some won't, but I can't determine what element causes this
> and it's not consistent at all. WordPerfect occasionally crashes on exit,
> and the WP Expert engine will not run at all.
>
> The crashes are showing up in several different files, ranging from
> kernal32 on down, and also seem to ahve no pattern. I am currently running
> ICQ, Eudora, ZoomText, and Netscape concurrently, and my System Resources
> show at 39% free.
>
> Eudora will occasionally crash for no apparent reason as well. If I could
> just find a pattern in all this, I could find the problem. But either it's
> not there, or I'm missing it.
>
> If anyone requires more information, let me know. And thanks again for
> even bothering to devote some brain cells to my problems.
>
> Jim
>
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