Hi, I am running windows vista 64-bit.
I have PE open with the code in the attachment.
This has happened 2 times today, and I think this never happened before:
I changed "spimode01" into "spimode11" on both of the times.
When I click the run button (did not save), PE stops responding; window greys out. I waited (1st time 5 mins, 2nd - 40mins) still not responding. I clicked the close button, the problem reporting window pops up for 10 secs, and the program is still open, not responding. Tried closing it using task manager, even that can't close PE. Window is still there, greyed out.
On the 1st time, after about 30 minutes after the first click on the close button, I had to restart the computer to close the program - not normal for windows Vista, this only used to be normal on the old windows OSs before XP. Repeated the above, also changed the com port, and changed "loop until b0>0 or pin0=1" into "loop until rci=1 or pin0=1", and the above repeated. After the 2nd time, I decide to report here.
One difference of today is that I am using the PCSU1000 oscilloscope on this computer, and had the oscilloscope window open with PE.
I will restart the computer again and open PE without opening the oscilloscope.
Worse still, the computer has been acting as if the hard disk needs defragmenting, even after defragmenting a few times, for about a month. When this problem started is when the disk was severely fragmented because the defragmenter's scheduling was not working (even when the scheduling is turned on and set up, it still says "next time scheduled: never" when I re-open the defragmenter. It took about 16 hours to completely defragment at that time (interrupting at the end of a day, and continuing on the next day).
Even after it has been completely defragmented, the system takes 33 mins to load 55% of 6GB of RAM (no programs open) on booting up, during this (after the desktop and taskbar appears), the programs take more time to load up (including PE, and the user account control).
Any help is very much appreciated.
I have PE open with the code in the attachment.
This has happened 2 times today, and I think this never happened before:
I changed "spimode01" into "spimode11" on both of the times.
When I click the run button (did not save), PE stops responding; window greys out. I waited (1st time 5 mins, 2nd - 40mins) still not responding. I clicked the close button, the problem reporting window pops up for 10 secs, and the program is still open, not responding. Tried closing it using task manager, even that can't close PE. Window is still there, greyed out.
On the 1st time, after about 30 minutes after the first click on the close button, I had to restart the computer to close the program - not normal for windows Vista, this only used to be normal on the old windows OSs before XP. Repeated the above, also changed the com port, and changed "loop until b0>0 or pin0=1" into "loop until rci=1 or pin0=1", and the above repeated. After the 2nd time, I decide to report here.
One difference of today is that I am using the PCSU1000 oscilloscope on this computer, and had the oscilloscope window open with PE.
I will restart the computer again and open PE without opening the oscilloscope.
Worse still, the computer has been acting as if the hard disk needs defragmenting, even after defragmenting a few times, for about a month. When this problem started is when the disk was severely fragmented because the defragmenter's scheduling was not working (even when the scheduling is turned on and set up, it still says "next time scheduled: never" when I re-open the defragmenter. It took about 16 hours to completely defragment at that time (interrupting at the end of a day, and continuing on the next day).
Even after it has been completely defragmented, the system takes 33 mins to load 55% of 6GB of RAM (no programs open) on booting up, during this (after the desktop and taskbar appears), the programs take more time to load up (including PE, and the user account control).
Any help is very much appreciated.
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