Various questions - Any ideas what's causing these?
John Keyser
Hello,
I am running NT 3.51 as installed in the factory. I have run across
a couple of problems which tech support seems to know nothing about, and so
I thought I would check here to see if anyone has any ideas. I realize that
most of these are insignificant questions relating more to NT applications
than to the NT _system_, but I figured I would check.
(Note: I have a 200 Mhz Pentium Pro with 32 MB ram).
Reprodicible
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1) When using Books Online, at one point, everything seemed to work fine.
At some point, however, something changed, and I no longer get a "contents"
listing for the CD (there used to be 4 book icons on the opening contents
listing). The index still works fine, and I can access the books through
it if necessary, but I cannot get a contents listing of any sort. Contents
listings for every other "help" application are fine. Furthermore, after
the screen saver has run, or when the desktop settings are looked at, a
full "help screen" giving the NT 3.51 copyrights and stuff appears. Closing
that screen closes the books online window as well. This problem could
be related to #3 below:
2) The "Introducing Windows NT" demo runs _extremely_ slow. Even at the
highest display rate, each time something changes on the screen, it takes
on the order of minutes to display (for a while I thought it was not running
at all, but then realized it was just really slow). Although this is certainly
not a vital program, I am curious as to why it would be SO slow on such a
(supposedly) fast computer.
Non-reproducible
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3) At one point, about the time problem 1 started, I received an error of:
"not enough memory to start this application...." while trying to follow a
link in Books Online. Books online was the ONLY application running. Any
idea why this came up (that was the only time I've seen it)?
4) This is a hardware question more than an NT question - at least one time
while booting, the CPU was listed as a Pentium 166 instead of a Pentium Pro
200. Is this any cause for concern (it has only happened once, as far as
I know)?
I will appreciate any help that you all can give me, even if it is just
a "that's nothing to be worried about". I know these are not "important"
problems, but after spending a bunch of money for a new system, these minor
problems are even more annoying! Plus, the tech support guy's suggestion
to reinstall Windows NT sounds a bit extreme for problem 1! Posting or
e-mailing are both fine (e-mail preferred).
Thanks,
John Keyser
key...@cs.unc.edu