SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

Date:	Tue, 8 May 2001 22:37:41 PDT
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Big...Huge problem

Content Type: text/plain

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

OK online help desk. This one may be hard to figure out and fix over
the net but here goes.

All of a sudden my main computer stops doing its thing about every two
minutes. This stopped situation lasts for about 15 seconds. During
that time the hard drive light stays on (one of the 4 drives can be
heard rattling) and the CPU meter in Warp Center goes to no activity
(yes, down to nothing). If I'm typing during this time all the
keystrokes are captured and when the spasm passes all the letters are
sent to the screen. (Once when I was typing in Star Office it did not
seem to be affected.) Letters are sent to the screen even when the
drive is rattling.

During the condition the courser stops, if I happen to be trying to
scroll nothing happens on the first mouse click (until the rattle stops)
but if the mouse is clicked again the Window List box opens.

I have closed all programs including Warp Center and the HD rattle
continues every two minutes (timed on a watch). After several hours the
HD rattle will start coming more often than two minutes.

Now I know Steven L's first question will be what were you doing when
this condition started. The standard answer is -- nothing. The problem
is I didn't relate the stopping to the rattling (it's a quite rattle) of
the HD for several days because Netscape simply stops on it own from
time to time. I was only when I realized that it was a regular stopping
that I started putting things together.

I think I tried a diagnostic program from Hobbs a week or two before I
caught on to what was happening. That program was supposed to check out
my system and report about the CPU, motherboard, accessory boards,
memory, and such. I didn't think it did much so I discarded it. I do
not remember its name.

This machine is home built and has been giving almost faultless service
for two years. It is running FP10.

I don't know what questions you need answered to get an idea of what is
wrong. So, ask away.

Sheridan

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 08 | May | 2001 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.