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From: rb9a@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Raul Baragiola)
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Windows has lately started freezing up.
Keywords: PROBLEM FREEZE COLD ICE BRRR ANTARCTICA MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
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Date: 3 Nov 90 01:14:48 GMT
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In article <32181@netnews.upenn.edu> chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chaim Dworkin) writes:
>Well, this is very interesting.  I just logged in to post a question
>about a problem and someone else has just described the same problem.
>The problem is that periodically Win3 just hangs.  It doesn't seem to be
>related to any specific program I'm running at the time and it occurs 
>when I'm running a single task.  I have win3 running on a home made
>8 Mhz 286 with 2 Mb RAM.  The hangups don't happen very frequently
>so it's just a minor annoyance but they do happen.  The only time
>the hangups happen with any regularity is if I try to run DateBook, which
>I've since deleted, or if I click on the special options bar in Ami
>Professional.  Otherwise they occur randomly every few days.
>
>Any ideas on what I can check in my .ini files?
>
>
>--
>Chaim Dworkin                             (chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu)

In my case I believe I traced the problems to bad or marginal sectors,
particularly in the swap file.  I know that Windows have problems with
some SCSI controllers when you want to use a *permanent* swapfile. It
seems it uses its own routines to access the disk.  It would be very
useful if someone would post information about this topic.

Cheers, Raul

Raul A. Baragiola                               \Internet: raul@virginia.edu
Dept. Nuclear Engnr. and Engnr. Physics          \Phone: (804)-982-2907
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 \ Fax: (804)-924-6270