Hi, not sure if this is the right folder to post in but I'm sure someone can redirect me if necessary.
The problem I have is with two computers at work. They are identical in their composition and are suffering from similar problems. They tend to crash, or hang when we try and use them for illustrative work using Adobe Illustrator or AutoCAD. they are particularly susceptible to this during panning and zooming processes.
The specs are: AMD Athlon 800 MHz
128 MB Ram
20 Gig HDD
I think they've got 8 MB graphics cards but I'll check that.
All sitting in Microstar MoBo's
Power Supply is 235W
I've been wondering if the power is too low, or if the memory is inadequate. It's a little confusing as the machines were relatively OK when they had NT as OS, but due to networking problems this was changed to 98. It was following this that stability started to become an issue, so I've been wondering if 98 is just more system intensive, so that when combined with Illustrator/CAD the memory is not up to the job.
Any suggestions would be appreciated especially as I'll have to take ideas to my incredibly non-technical boss.
And before you ask both machines were formatted and had the OS installed onto clean HDD's
The problem I have is with two computers at work. They are identical in their composition and are suffering from similar problems. They tend to crash, or hang when we try and use them for illustrative work using Adobe Illustrator or AutoCAD. they are particularly susceptible to this during panning and zooming processes.
The specs are: AMD Athlon 800 MHz
128 MB Ram
20 Gig HDD
I think they've got 8 MB graphics cards but I'll check that.
All sitting in Microstar MoBo's
Power Supply is 235W
I've been wondering if the power is too low, or if the memory is inadequate. It's a little confusing as the machines were relatively OK when they had NT as OS, but due to networking problems this was changed to 98. It was following this that stability started to become an issue, so I've been wondering if 98 is just more system intensive, so that when combined with Illustrator/CAD the memory is not up to the job.
Any suggestions would be appreciated especially as I'll have to take ideas to my incredibly non-technical boss.
And before you ask both machines were formatted and had the OS installed onto clean HDD's