Brad, One of the ladeos here told me of a story of 'holy' RAM. The RAM passed an intensive boot test, but still the machine was weak in the knees. We both know Protel is a CPU hog; this pushes bandwidth requirements to the limit. Other apps do not necessarily do this. Another hardware riddle I have hear of is with respect to bad sector creep in HD's. Once it starts, it propagates. The final solution is to use Partition Magic to quarantine the disk.
As a side issue, my early experiences with a corrupt NT installation saw overlays and associated registry washing a task taken to pruning a fruitless tree. Nailing the disk to a factory state and starting over may be a regretful, but final, solution. My machine is rock solid. It's a P on the floor, W2K, 512 set up. If you need another designer check on DDB corruption issue, I would be happy to help out. My off-line address is below. All the best. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B3M2 tel: 709-738-4070 fax: 709-738-4093 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.guigne.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies from your system; you should not copy the message or disclose its contents to anyone. Any dissemination, distribution or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal. We cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses and advise you to carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: E75D8CA32EB0804CA35286D86EC2B1F563B85A16 * ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
