Joe Newell

KATIE!!!! That seems to have fixed it. It was the graphics card. I turned virtual memory on and had some 7000M on the hdrive.That didn't work so I downloaded a driver update for the Radeon 7000 Mac Version and installed that. So far no crashes, 20 minutes and counting. Incidently if anyone else is having this problem with this equipment, the 2002 retail update from ATI was corrupt or something and wouldn't install. The 7000 series worked. I have sent a note to ATI. Thanks!

I have been having "major crashing issues" with my G4 running OS9.2.1 and VW 8.5.2. It has been happening in a drawing that is about 1.5mb in size with not too many layers (9) . The sheets I am working in each have three layers turned on with one layer at 1/8" and one layer at 1/16" scales. A bit of hatching, a bit of grey scale fill (pattern). I thought the crashes (freezing) occurred when I was moving and scrolling at the same time. That is dragging something byond what is visible on the screen, but I just froze drawing a line so that's not it. ATI Rage graphics card.Save set at 1 minute and even that's not enough. I crash every thirty seconds or so. Except on coffee breaks .