[Dx4win] Help with DX4WIN hanging

[Tom Brown]

Thanks Joe.  Glad to hear I'm not the only one seeing this problem!!  I hope 
to e-mail further with you offline from the group to compare notes.

73 - Tom, W2EQ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Giacobello" <k2xx at swva.net>
To: "Tom Brown" <tbstuff at verizon.net>
Cc: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Help with DX4WIN hanging


>I have seen a similar problem on my HP laptop after I tried to load Windows 
>while minimizing the HP-centric 'helper' programs that are usually loaded 
>at the same time.  I have been meaning to reformat and load a non-HP 
>version of Windows to see if that cures the problem but have not done so 
>yet, since I only use the laptop with DX4WIN when traveling.  I have been 
>told by a computer repair shop that trying to load Windows w/o the 
>computers supplier's self-serving programs usually causes problems.
> The characteristics of the hangup are as you describe with the CPU's 
> consumption of usage at 99-100%.
>
> 73, Joe
> K2XX
>
> Tom Brown wrote:
>> Hi,
>> For the last few months, I'm having a very intermittent problem where my 
>> DX4WIN v6.03 hangs and sucks up 100% of my CPU until I kill it.  Paul and 
>> Steve apparently have no way of debugging this. Until today February 15, 
>> my last hang was on January 22.  Sometimes it takes that long, sometimes 
>> it happens 2 times in 3 days. Totally unpredictable and very 
>> intermittent.
>>
>> I have a hunch it has something to do with my telnet connection to the DX 
>> Cluster. Any volunteers to start using the same telnet cluster as me to 
>> see if you can reproduce the problem?  I use KE2OI.dyndns.org:7300  I may 
>> switch to another one not running DX Spider, to see if it goes away as 
>> well.
>> Any volunteers appreciated!
>> Thanks - Tom Brown, W2EQ _______________________________________________
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