Hi Bob,

Ed has much more *relevant* to say about this stuff, but nevertheless. . .

The reason I mentioned networking was some conflicting stuff I have read on the subject between Win95/98. One item, when OSR2 was released actually, stated that FAT32 would be a problem if one machine was non-OSR2 and the other was. I seem to remember it was more aimed a larger drives. But then I read in Win98 Help that there is no problem networking Win98/95 as far as FAT32 was concerned, Take your pick.

You se "signs" of impending doom and a re-boot at that time prevents failure. Could that not still be a overheating problem? A boot would 'refresh' RAM that was starting to be affected by the situation, as well as possibly changing other things. I wonder if you'd get a diff. situation if you ran with covers off for a while, just to see what happens.

Again, good luck

Jim N

>In Response to Jim and Ed both:
>
>Thanks, and yes, I have made some changes that I thought were
>innocuous. First, I do have the machines networked, using W95/98
>networking right off the CDs. BNC Ethernet, thin and slow but
>enough for what I need, via LinkSys cards, NE2000 compatible.
>Second, on the W98 machine I did put in an extra 64Mb RAM, of
>the same type that came with the original machine. The rest of
>it is as delivered by the OEM. The W98 PC is the first one I
>tried with VFP. In my specs this morning I typo'ed the BIOS
>ID string. The BIOS date is 6/25/98, nor 6/25/63 as I typed.
>And although I've only had the machine since November, I have
>not seen any other software create this kind of behavior.
>
>The older machine is running W95, and it too scrambled the FAT,
>just when I tried to add a report to a project. Blue screen,
>the whole bit. I can see clues now when it's getting ready to blow.
>I clicked the Documents Tab in project manager today and it showed
>me the Data graphic. I saved what I had open right away, quit VFP
>and rebooted. Scandisk showed no errors and I worked again for a
>while. The same thing happened later and I took the same steps.
>I can claim that I avoided getting the drive scrambled but by the
>same logic I was also keeping the elephants away.
>
>So while I'm leery of reports, I will have to deal with them this
>week in some way. Probably by packing them into the setup files
>and not putting them in the project itself.
>
>And I will look into the motherboard issues as Ed pointed out.
>
>Danke ..
>
>-- Bob