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Hello Wayne - 

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CA>> Hurts when you push a somewhat blunt object through your
CA>> hand. 

WC> I can outgross that. Running a printing press improperly
WC> cleaned by the night shift I was adjusting the web roller
WC> guide when the allen wrench slipped out of the dry ink
WC> filled adjustment allen screw. My hand dropped to the roll
WC> stock running through the press at 540 Ft/Min., couple
WC> hundred pounds of revolving mass and two 2 H.P. DC motors
WC> came to a stop as my finger slid between the hard rubber
WC> and stainless steel pinch rollers. My fingernail was driven
WC> along the bone to just about the first joint where I
WC> removed it with cheap loose pliers on something like the
WC> fifth attempt to grasp the nail. Then I went to my
WC> supervisior to get soome peroxide to pour over the wound.
WC> This happened first thing in the morning and I finished the
WC> day though it was a major owie when that finger touched the
WC> frame of the press while adjusting various settings
WC> throughout the day. 

I think that would've scared me so badly I would've had to go
home and sleep it off. 

It's unfortunate how many of us were raised to be good soldiers
and continue as though nothing has happened when we are badly
injured. My first AMI was at work and I stayed there and
finished my shift. Seems a bit insane to me now that I did that
but the really weird thing is a younger man working next to me
was having chest pains at the same time and he stayed and
finished his shift too. 

We each deserve the same care and consideration we would show
to our pets, our friends, and our family. It was a mistake to
treat myself with such disregard. I would've never treated
another living soul that badly. 

CA>> I don't do that anymore. ;-) 

WC> Me neither ;-) Someone less fortunate than I did the same
WC> thing and it rendered his whole arm largely useless. To
WC> this day I'll never know why the bone in the finger did not
WC> crush resulting in that more serious outcome. 

Machinery is as unpredictable as the wind. There was a guy who
was trying to set a land speed record at the Salt Flats. His
car went out of control so he jumped out at over 200mph. No
problem. Next year, same thing. Third year his car went out of
control, he jumped and died. Life is like that. 

WC> OH yeah, this sytem I thought I'd fixed is evidencing
WC> problems again and actually may never have stopped having
WC> them but the problems of a hang or crash with Win 3.1 are
WC> less severe than with Win 98 so I've managed to work around
WC> it. Gotta try putting in a different hard drive ribbon
WC> cable as that's free but fear it may be the H.P.'s on
WC> motherboard board I/O :-( Those are about the only things
WC> left it could be. Then again the Seagate drive I put in
WC> there is ten years old... Two failed drives in a row? Glad
WC> I kept the 6.4 Gig Quantum drive as it's possible it's good. 

If you can detail just what is happening to you and when (after
a 'clean' boot with the machine turned off/on or 'other' etc.)
something may click here. I did have random lockups here on my
W31 for a long time but was never absolutely certain which
change finally stopped that from happening. I began executing
DR.WATSON at W31 startup, and made some changes to memory
handling as I recall it. I replaced MSDOS v6 SMARTDRV.EXE,
EMM386.EXE, HIMEM.SYS, and IFSHLP.SYS with newer versions from
a W98SE version of MSDOS and I think that helped somewhat.

You could try Microsoft's "Memory Valet" from: 

http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/dos/w31_cfg2.htm 

at the bottom of that page. It's a little-known free addon for
W31 that Microsoft offered mainly to business users and there
is a KB article link there that will explain what MEMVALET's
intended use was. I _think_ that also contributed a great deal
to my present more stable W31? 

I also added 'syshook.drv' (same webpage) that won't allow me
to use ALL of the memory in the first meg as a 'saftey'
precaution against out of memory errors. W31 must have a small
amount of memory in order to use installed high memory even
from the VM swap file. If it can't it will scramble the error
messages (if any) and give wrong information about why it is
crashing. Memory Valet and syshook.drv attempt to assist W31 in
it's poor memory management practices. 

If you are using a permanent VM swap file, and you have to to
use 32bit access, then once that gets scrambled W31 will
continually reload, reuse, and re-crash. You have to reset to a
temp VM, reboot, reset back to a permnanent VM swap file to
erase the 'bad' VM information and start fresh. It's a pain but
I recall needing to do that many times before stabilizing my
setup. 

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