[WriteLog] Locking up during a contest..

n8ie@woh.rr.com n8ie at woh.rr.com
Wed Feb 1 09:21:52 EST 2006


Bill,
I had a similar problem a bit ago and it turned out to be RF and not WL.
Com ports, mice, and keyboards are real sensitive points to stray RF.

Try adding a toroid to the keyboard cable and make sure your PC is
grounded good.

73
Dan, N8IE

----- Original Message -----
From: ukbrown <ukbrown at acsol.net>
Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2006 9:04 am
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Locking up during a contest..

> My same problem is still with me I have a computer that was
> built by a local comuter store...We just recently put in 1
> gig of RAM and in the 160mtrs test it froze on me
> twice...What I mean by that, it will not let me in;put the
> cal to the call field..I can send via the F keys and hit
> enter or F1 for cq but cant put any call into the field..The
> curser is all ok also.. I have to reboot and then it will
> work fine for a bit or for 6 hours or more before it does it
> again...We have cleared off just about all programs except
> the few like adobe that I need...Help..PTL bill K0UK
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