Price of SGI machine that I am using ($24000)
Netscape causes the window manager to crash sometimes
if I leave it running all the time. So I have to quit
it every time. Alot of the cost was RAM. I have 96Megs.
I need more since Matlab is such a memory hog, and I
am too lazy to setup vertual memory.
Oh, twice, I have had to reboot the system because
something was using up all the memory and I couldn't
figure out what. I have had it for over a year. It has
a 174Mhz R4400. I have not upgraded anything since I
bought it. I want one of those new 250Mhz R5000 processors,
but the company wouldn't buy me one of those, as they
don't have much money coming in right now.
The windows NT system could be screwed up not because
of NT, but because of the M/B, or the CPU, or the graphics
card, or the drivers, or the ???. Anyways, the thing
has most of it's problems with the network. Nobody here
has gotten NT on any of our machines to print on our
Techtronix Phaser 540 or Phaser 2SDX. We have to print
to a postscript file, then use another machine with nprint
and copy it to the network printer. Also, if you have NT
connected to a Novell server, and the server crashes, then
NT locks up. I guess Microsoft beleives that Novell servers
never crash. We have tried to make the system stable by
trying different M/B's and network cards, SCSI cards,
and IDE. Basically we take the machines apart and change
things every day until it seems stable. We have gotten
to the point where we keep one drive for Windows NT, and
any time we have a problem, we erase the drive and reinstall.
This seems to be the easiest solution.
Currently the system contains a
3com Etherlink III PCI
Adaptec AHA-2940S
Stealth SE PCI
and a some M/B with an Intel chipset S1468 (whatever that is)
and an Intel Pentium processor.
I have no idea what the problem is so if you have
any suggestions, please comment.
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