Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!baldy
From: baldy@micor.UUCP (Andre Sastre)
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Windows has lately started freezing up.
Reply-To: baldy@.UUCP (Donna Hogan)
Organization: Corel Systems Inc., Ottawa (Ont)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 01:56:39 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.015639.28926@micor.UUCP>
Keywords: PROBLEM FREEZE COLD ICE BRRR ANTARCTICA MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
References: <4787@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <32181@netnews.upenn.edu> <2789@randvax.UUCP> <1666@mitisft.Convergent.COM>

In article <1666@mitisft.Convergent.COM> burton@mitisft.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>In article <2789@randvax.UUCP> cave@rand-unix.UUCP (Jonathan Cave) writes:
>>Say, I'm glad others have been having this problem.  For me it happens
>>with particular regularity in Excel: ask for a recalc, get a permanent
>>(up to 3-fingered salute) hourglass instead.  But it also happens in
>>other apps.  Two possible "causes" in my case: PC-NFS, and (based on recent
>>traffic here) curse.exe.  Is there a pattern?
>
>Wow !!!  I have similar freezeup problems on my true-blue IBM PC AT.  (yeah,
>I'm getting a 386 Real Soon Now.)  My freezeups are so intermittent that it's
>hard to reproduce the problem. Funny part is that they happen even in DOS.
>
>Symptoms are mouse clicks and keystrokes not taking effect.  But the mouse 
>arrow still moves (say in MS Word 4.0) and I can still reboot from the keyboard.
Maybe what you need is a stacks command in your config.sys.  According
to the Windows 3.0 manual, if you use MS DOS 3.3 or later, you must have
stacks=0,0 in your config.sys.  And, according to PC Magazine's DOS manual
(I forget the exact name - the very big black book), there is a bug in
MS DOS 3.2 and you have to put a customized stacks statement into your
config.  Not sure exactly what the settings would be, but you can check
into this yourself if you have DOS 3.2.

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Donna Hogan 
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