OpenEuphoria

2. RE: error

• Posted by gertie at ad-tek.net Aug 11, 2001
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On 11 Aug 2001, at 19:04, Bernie Ryan wrote:

> > 
> 
> mwfch at MWEB.CO.ZA wrote:
> > I know that this is an oftoppic but I need help . After a short time my 
> > computer just restarts . Then it gives these long beeps . What is it ? 
> > Thanks to this I have lost a lot of code . Please help .
> > 
> > FG
> > 
> > 
>   Its sounds like you are have a problem with bad memory.
>   One of the memory dim/sim boards may be loose or going bad.
> 
>   The other possibilty is that your power supply is going bad
>   or something in the system is loaded down the power supply voltages
>   intermittently.  

If the power drops off for one cycle, 1/120th of a second, the puter can get
massive
heart failure, and may reboot, or lock up. Designing power suplies with no
margin
makes them lighter, cheaper, and more efficient, so it also means everything
else
must be better,,, and the power company is the weakest link, followed by flakey
outlet
strips. Get a small UPS, with 10 minutes of puter + monitor power, and plug the
puter
into it, not an outlet strip. My UPS beeps at least once a day, usually several
times a
day. Each beep is at least a micro power outage, and would have wiped the puter
if the
UPS had not caught it. I had given up on using ibm-clone puters while i still
had the
C64, because i could run the C64 on batteries, while the power co kept killing
the big
puter.

A bad program writing outside allotted memory will also reboot the puter.

Kat