From what you say in a further message and from my hardware experience (extensive, about 800-1000 computers) I would say you have some bad memory on your computer. The bad thing is that in such kind of problems, no test program will help. I saw about 15-20 computers like that. I remember only one case when it was the motherboard. In all other cases, it was the memory.

I assume the computer is correctly setup (the boot setup). For tests, try to set default settings.

Basically, there are 2 solutions:
1. Change the memory (different brand, different provider).
2. Load the OS. Don't load VFP or your programs. Load the computer as much as you can with all kind of heavy applications: MSWord with big files, MSExcel with big sheets, etc. Put it to work as hard as you can. From my experience, MSWord is the best detector of bad memory that can't be find with any test programs. Seriously! :) Do this for 2-3 hours. If nothing happens, change the applications, the order you load them, etc. If you can play with it for one day and have only a fair number of crashes :), it's not the memory.

You say that there are other computers having some problems. Are they from the same provider/brand/generation? What CPUs?

2. For only one of your problems: do you use timers in your VFP programs? If yes, how many and what intervals?

HTH,
Vlad

>Am I the only one out here who sees VFP 5.0a crash and burn on a regular basis? It seems I have to either re-start VFP or my machine at least 10 times a day. The message is always: "This program has performed and illegal operation. If the problem persists, please contact the program vendor." Fat chance of MS doing *anything* to fix this! My system is running MS software *exclusively* (WIN95b and VFP 5.0a) and still the crashes. MS has been putting out buggy versions of VFP since day one, and I see 5.0a as another one in a sad history of bogus software. HOW ABOUT IT MS - When are you *ever* gonna release an x.5 version of VFP? Cut out the marketing crap of constantly releasing X.0 versions and give us the interim fixes we need...
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>Fed up in the nation's capital...
>-RW-