Eric Andreychek wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > Have you tried QQ Bios? I was having lockups every 7-10 days. I have
> > not had one since Late Feb (early March?) when I flashed to QQ.
> > Including one 42 day straight uptime. This has been the difference for
> > me. Previously, tried every other trick in the book. Definitely worth
> > a try.
>
> Yeah, I'm using the QQ final right now. My system is much better, but as
> I mentioned in a previous note, my box dies within 5 minutes of firing up
> RealPlayer 7 (I had goofed and said it was version 6 in that original note
> I sent). Since loading the QQ final 2 days ago, running realplayer is the
> only time my box has crashed (I tried it twice & it blew up twice). So
> I'm not sure if my system is stable besides that one app, or if my system
> is a time bomb just waiting for the right app to run.
In my opinion (http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/) a system that locks up
on a non-root application is always a timebomb. Apparently, some stuff
can lock up the machine from userspace, and that means that this can
also happen when running other applications.
Roger.
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