In a recent message you wrote:
> I'll try and look into the following problems
> either this weekend or Monday night (if no one beats me to
> the punch! :)
>
> My outstanding ???s:
>
> 1) We know that two Toshibas give "out of memory" errors when
> converting to .gifs. These units have to have the student
> inks and logs transferred to another machine and have
> the conversion done there.
>
> Should we re-think the conversion process? IE, should
> we transfer inks and logs for *all* untits and do the
> processing that way?
>
Before rethinking the process, I'd make darn sure we know why the
out of memory error occurs. I did a very simple but effective
experiment this past Monday night to resurrect some of the units.
I just took a look at the config.sys files of the units that were
misbehaving and made them correspond to the units that worked. Things
went fine on the conversion after that. I logged my activity on
a piece of paper and attached it to Jason's log of equipment status
and handed that to Dale/Valerie Monday night. I also checked the
virtual memory settings for a couple of units to find that they were
all over the map in terms of amount allocated to VM and type of VM
(permanent BIOS, temporary MS-DOS file, 32-bit addressing). Does
anyone know anything about these settings and what they mean and
what we want? If so, speak up. Else we HAVE TO find someone to help
us figure out the most reliable configuration setting. Try contacting
Dietmar Aust, Jason.
> 2) Thinkpad. Sometimes it gets a wire or componet loose-
> I just don't think it was treated gently enough as
> a child.
>
I'm sure that's it. :) Someone just needs to show Valerie and Dale
what to do when that happens.
G.
> Jason
>
>
> > I think that we're all caught up now, except for the following:
> >
> > -three machines with previously existing hardware problems.
> > -one machine with pen problems, which I suspect are software related but
> > haven't explored the situation fully.
> > -one machine with missing windows files; file conversion must take place
> > on another machine.
> > -sick thinkpad (memory fails at startup).