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From: cmorgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word crashing on IIfx
Message-ID: <16208@slice.ooc.uva.nl>
Date: 26 Nov 90 15:57:08 GMT
References: <1990Nov25.000308.8911@cascade.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Center for Innovation and Cooperative Technology, University of Amsterdam
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simoni@strat.Stanford.EDU (Richard Simoni) writes:

>I have recently upgraded my II to a IIfx, and can repeatedly crash the
>machine.  Interestingly, I don't get the system bomb dialog; rather, the
>screen goes wild, sort of like a tv with the vertical hold misadjusted.
>To crash the machine, I do this:
>1.  Run VersaCAD 2.1.2, do some zooming and panning around a drawing.
>2.  Quit VersaCAD, run Microsoft Word 4.0.  Open a document, do a spelling
>check.
>3.  Close document.  This is the command that crashes the machine.

>I'm running System 6.0.5 with no INITs.  If you know of any problems with
>either VersaCAD or Word under an fx, I'd appreciate it if you could let me
>know.

I can do better than that. I have had several problems with 2 of my 4 MacIIfxs.
One will crash randomly and another will crash semi-randomly when I use MS-Word
4.0 - usually when scrolling. I've tried everything I can think of but can't
get the machines to run continuously for more than a few days.

On the one hane i'm convinced that theres a hardware issue hidden somewhere,
but since I have other MacIIfx machins which run perfectly i'm left a bit
confused !?!?!

Has anyone else noticed any problems with the IIfx ???  I think its a great
machine but my users are losing confidence in the Macs since one of the
probelmatic machines is a fileserver/mailserver/database server !!!

Any suggestions ???  Anything at all ???


Chris Morgan
cmorgan@ooc.uva.nl