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Postby mofisto » Wed Aug 28, 2002 6:03 pm

You bring up an interesting point. Power does play a role in computer crashing, most people think that power surges only affect a computer, but low voltages is just as damaging in terms of operation not hardware. I Recommend using a battery on all computers. I have a laptop so I don't run into any problems, my computers at work where going down constantly then I ordered battery backups for them and boom not a single problem(PS I also had to underclock them but they were unstable after too)
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Postby klinky » Wed Aug 28, 2002 6:59 pm

If your computer keeps dying and light flicker or dim, I would get the electrical company out to check your lines, or possibly a electrician to check the wiring in the house :oops: Also crappy power supplies are known to cause instability while your computer is running.


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Postby Mask of Destiny » Wed Aug 28, 2002 8:14 pm

So XP's memory management sucks?

I beg to differ. I have had many misbehaving programs running on my XP machines and I've never had any problems with the other processes running along side them. I have however had many driver related problems.

All drivers, including codecs(at least I think so, I've been wrong before), have Kernel Mode access. This makes them particularly dangerous. ATI's crappy MPEG2 driver has caused my desktop to reboot on quite a few occasions.

This is not to say that XP is not without it's flaws, but I don't see memory management as one of them.
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Postby klinky » Wed Aug 28, 2002 8:16 pm

XP is better then Windows 98 / Me.

Win2k is better then XP :p


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Postby the Black Monarch » Fri Sep 06, 2002 1:32 am

On my XP computer, the 30-day trial version of Premiere 6.0 worked fine, but the full versions of both 5.0 and 6.0 had the same problem: random, spontaneous program shutdown without saving my work.

I have not experimented on non-XP systems, but I will soon.
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