Re: Crasha Bene!

[mebennun@nospam.icon.co.za]

John,

If you crash NB you >>>>MUST<<<< use NB's "Recover" utility to unload 
DLLs (what exactly are they - can someone please explain!!??) before 
NB will be stable again. It seems to follow that you are missing out 
here from your own evidence - ie, that you need to reboot to get 
stability.

However, this is only part of the story, obviously. Why do you crash? 
 I use SWS, and it has become reasonably and satisfactorily reliable. 
I would suggest that you have something else which when running is 
quarreling with NB. The usual careful elimination seems to be 
advisable.

I would suggest that you start with your anti-virus pgm. I think that 
this really can cause problems, as - as I said t'other day - NB 
apparently likes writing to its .EXE files.

Also, you should have "small fonts" selected in your settings. I was 
advised on this by NY. (Settings - active desktop - customise my 
desktop - setings - advanced: select small fonts).  This made a 
difference to me.

Of course, you have the latest version of NB? 

Hope this helps....

Mervyn

> Date:          Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:37:36 -0600 (CST)
> Reply-to:      notabene@nospam.piper.hamline.edu
> From:          John Hill <j.hill@nospam.mcd.edu.au>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE <notabene@nospam.hamline.edu>
> Subject:       Re: Crasha Bene!

> At 11:56 AM 18/12/2000 -0600, Andrew Hahn wrote:
> >Hey List Folk!
> >
> >      Is it just me or my system? Am I the only one for whom NBWin
> >      Lingua crashes constantly? I can't even say how to reproduce
> >      these crashes. Anything at any time can unexpectedly make NB
> >      crash.
> 
> Andrew,
>          I end up with crashes and an error message indicating a general 
> protection fault. Some of these crashes were random instances, I thought 
> initially to do with getting my video settings right on a new computer 
> after I had tweaked it a bit. But I get a general protection fault and 
> system crashes after Ibidem freezes. When Ibidem freezes, I use the 
> Ctr-Alt-Del to close down NBWin. I then restart the program, but if two or 
> three times I repeat the sequence of Ibidem freeze, Ctr-Alt-Del, restart 
> NBWin, then a general protection fault is reported, and I have to reboot my 
> computer to have NBWin work properly. NBWinLingua is the only program that 
> crashes on my machine.
>          BTW thanks for your further advice on possible offending 
> characters for Ibidem. I will weed them out and see what happens.
> 
> John

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