| Many computer crashes can be traced to
incorrect installation of Windows, Network drivers or faulty
hardware. Under these conditions you may find that your computer
will crash while only running Citect. This occurs because Citect is
a much more demanding application of your computer and its
resources. You are most likely running Citect 24 hours a day, 7
days a week and even if the operators are not interacting with
Citect a lot of work is being done. This includes gathering
information from your plant, scanning for alarms, running reports
and logging data to disk. This means that Citect is driving your
computer system constantly.
Most user application will not put this type of load on your
computer system. For example your word processor will do nothing
unless you type data into it, and only save to disk when you tell
it to (some may auto save at a slow rate if changes occurred). As
Citect puts a constant load on your computer system, if there is
any problem with the configuration or hardware then Citect is the
most likely application which will find it and cause the computer
to crash. To find the same problem in say a word processor you
would have to run up the Word processor and keep the user
constantly typing for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you did
this then the word processor would most likely find the same fault
in the computer.
If you are having problems with your computer crashing, search
the Knowledgebase for articles with the works CRASH or HANG.
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