XP Home -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steve Harris Sent: 09 August 2004 01:41 To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: RE: Digital Photography What operating system are you using?? Windows XP or Windows 2000? DSH On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 23:14, Am wrote: > <delurk> > Add/replace enough memory so you have 1.5-2 gb? My old PC had 1.5 gb > in, and I could burn a full CD in one go. And the machine wasn't the > most stable in existence. Disk wise it a 120gb and two thirty gbs. > Dual pr > > Of course, sticking that much memory in might cause Poser to get > upset, unless it's V5. The earlier versions don't run if there's too > much memory - altho I think v4 had a patch to fix that. > </delurk> > > Am > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of > Chris > Sent: 08 August 2004 22:41 > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - > Students > Subject: RE: Digital Photography > > > My CD writer will not store 600MB of 15MBTiff files if all are > saved at once. The PC crashes. I've re-installed the > operating system and applications twice and tried another > cd-burner. There are no reported memory faults when I ran a > memory test for 6 hours with 7 passes. > > I can save a few at a time or use jpeg files all at once. > > Large executables do the same thing and I burned a cd with > poser installation data. The pc did not crash but poser will > not install from this disk. > > It is really strange. > > I think it is because the quatity of data in the cd write > buffer exceeds the capacity of my pc available memory (and > I've done it with no software loaded with the same results) > and os data gets overwritten such as the stack or the heap > where jumps and other addresses are stored. > > I've even had the screen memory overwritten like those old > fashioned crashes when the screen displays all sorts of > patterns and the pc freezes. > > I think there is no cure but a silicon graphics workstation or > a dec-alpha. I have three drams of 256MB. three 60 gb hard > disks. > > I've even tried taking out most of the addon hardware ..... > > Anyone else had similar experiences. Anyone with ideas as to > how to fix. > > > Chris, > http://www.chrisspages.co.uk > In Memory of Maia, a sad, sad story. > >
