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Hi, I am writing this to all users of TS to hopefully help someone avoid the
1 year nightmare I went through with TS that led me to want to alternatively
destroy my PC, Omega or both. My machine kept crashing every day with GPF 's
in module unknown and everyother place , I had regular CTREE errors that
destroyed my ability to collect data and so backtest ideas or even produce a
chart, on many days I could not rebuild my tick file upon opening TS .God, i
was crazed I could hardly trade . Eventually even Omega got fed up with my
ranting and i sent the machine to them , they could not solve it , maybe it
was the TPort card then the modem was causing weird problems and it wouldn't
work with the modem in , this was with both TS 3.5 and TS4 . My machine was a
Gateway P60 , they couldn't help . So i decided after FDisking the machine
and reloading the software which didn't help to buy a new machine . To save
money ( stupid idea) i took out my then expensive 40 mb of RAM , 32 bought
from a local company and got a new machine with that in it. Upon loading the
ram the computer shop spotted a rare problem , I had a faulty ram chip. It
was the worse kind , it was an intermittent problem . So the machine would
boot up fine but during the day as the ram was slowly used it would glitch,
every f****** day. There was no pattern except everyone thought i was cursed
( BTW my hard drive crashed twice in 6 months , so much for 10 years MTBF).
The point of this email, if you have endless problems it probably isn't TS (
although God I used to go to bed dreaming of blowing up Omega) , take your
machine to a computer store and let them look at it or just buy a new one,
the cost is less than the pain of a faulty machine.
Regards
Brian
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