Author: Galen (140.144.173.82)
Date: 04-17-2003 05:44
Richard wrote:
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Hi,
During this evening I estimate I have had to reboot/power cycle my Falcon 20+ times. I haven't been doing much more than creating some MSA files, and browsing CDs. The system then randomly either locks up or returns tons of errors which then forces me to reboot.
Should I expect to have to reboot this many times?
My system is:
Falcon 030, 16Mb RAM, Eagle Acclererator.
Magic 6.1, Jinnee 2.5, Extendos Gold 3.4.
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Hi Richard,
Unfortunately, browsing CDs will cause lots of reboots. This isn't due to the Falcon being flaky, but rather that the program is expecting a certain screen resolution (and doesn't exit gracefully) or expects to write to the current directory (which certainly won't work on a CDROM!). There are also a lot of games and demos that make a change to memory and don't change back when you quit them!
Falcon TOS does have a bit of memory leakage, so you'll have to reboot every few weeks, but when running application software you should expect stability. Games and demos just tend to not be as carefully written IMHO.
Galen
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