Re: st: Sudden unstability

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

are you in a hot (temperature) environment -- this did happen to me
several years ago and was solved by putting in an air conditioner

R

Hoetker, Glenn wrote:
> Over the last two weeks, my installation of Stata has suddenly become
> totally unstable.  It crashes frequently, particularly if anything
> involving graphics is involved.  After over a decade of rock-solid
> performance and no difficulties, I'm truly baffled.  I've tried
> installing on two different machines and have the same problem.
>
> I have an email in with tech support and I'm not asking for debugging
> help.  I would be very interested in knowing, however, if anyone else
> has suddenly had problems recently.  Maybe there is some obvious, recent
> trigger common to multiple folks having trouble.
>
> I'm running the latest Stata 9.2 executable on Windoze XP SP2.  I keep a
> fairly paranoid machine in terms of firewalls, anti-spyware and
> anti-virus, but I actually stripped all those off one machine just to
> check--no help.  I tend to apply Windows patches within a day or two of
> their release, so I'm pretty current on that front-be that for good or
> bad.
>
> So, does this sound eerily familiar to anyone?
>
> Thanks and best wishes.
>
> Glenn Hoetker
> ghoetker@uiuc.edu
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