hansell@eric.nyu.edu (Saul Hansell) (03/21/90)
HI: I have a NEC 386 SX+ with 2 Meg, Windows 2.10, and Word for Windows 1.0. I have SmartDrive installed at 256K. I use the /N option when I load Windows (small page frame) because it seems to use memory better. After I am using Word for a while (anywhere from 20 minutes to all day) my machine goes into what I call Sick Cow mode. The symptoms: It gets very slow. The hard drive light is lit for far too long given the task it is doing. Then, after a long hard drive access, a low, painful (bovine) moaning starts to emerge from the Hard drive. Once this happens, any disk access is accompanied by the very unpleasan sound. The only way I can get rid of it is to exit windows and reboot. (Yes, it sometimes it will continue to moan in other programs if I don't reboot.) This is quite odd, and it doesn't always happen. I think, but I'm not sure, that it is most frequent when I am doing things that use memory, such as using a DOS program in Windows or having lots of documents open at once. Has this happened to anyone else? What is it? What do I do about it? And so on.... Thanks in advance, Saul Hansell New York City Internet: Hansell@eric.ultra.nyu.edu MCI Mail: SHansell -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Eric Freudenthal NYU Ultracompter Lab 715 Broadway, 10th floor New York, NY 10012 Phone:(212) 998-3345 work (718) 789-4486 home Email:freudent@ultra.nyu.edu