Author: Mark Loftus
Date: 01:38:20 07/04/00
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On July 03, 2000 at 19:45:31, John Coffey wrote: >On July 03, 2000 at 01:19:15, Mark Loftus wrote: >I >>could hear the cpu working hard non stop with its noise. Winboard wasn't >>responding to any of my commands, then the blue screen came up with the message >>that the system had become unstable. That blue screen wouldn't go away, and >>CTRL-ALT-DEL did nothing so I hit reset, > > >CPU's don't make noise, but disk drives do. So maybe there isn't enough memory >to run both programs and it is thrashing the windows swap file. > So really it was my hard drive making that noise, well you can tell I'm no computer expert... I could only shut the Winboard program using CTRL-ALT-DEL once that noise started happening. Mark >John Coffey
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