Re: jfw cutting out at start up

  • From: "Joy" <happyhappyjoyjoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:37:26 -0500

Is there a way to check the ram with jaws 5.0?  Thanks, Joy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: jfw cutting out at start up


> There are several possibilities some hardware and some software.  It could
> be that you have some bad ram.  This puts a high swap load on your hard
> drive so that there is a lot of hard drive i/o activity in order to
> compensate.  This results in missing speech and can also result in no jaws
> speaking at least during the hd activity.  If you have a fan that starts
and
> stops on your pc like on a laptop, you might have issues like this.  If
your
> power settings are set so that the disk spins down, you could have this
> issue.  If you have a lot of animation going on on the pc, this can be the
> cause of all kinds of things.  I Suggest doing a good scandisk and defrag
in
> safe mode, making sure you don't have any spyware on your system and
seeing
> if that helps fix the problems you are having as well as testing the ram
in
> your pc.  I also suggest trying running the pc without jaws loaded and
> seeing if there is any noticable sluggishness.
>
> Johnnie Apple Seed
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joy" <happyhappyjoyjoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:53 PM
> Subject: jfw cutting out at start up
>
>
> Another prob I am having is when I start the computer, jaws seems to be
> conflicting with something that is loading, because it will cut out in the
> middle of what it was saying.  If I wait a few seconds and touch a key,
jaws
> is still there-- occassionally it won't be.  Are there any ideas of what
> jaws might be conflicting with?  My mother has watched the computer when I
> turn it on and she can't tell what is loading that is conflicting with
jaws.
>
> Jaws also crashed on me when I ran scan disk and disk defragmenter.
> Normally I could check the progress, but now I cannot.  Any
> solutions/suggestions?  Thanks, Joy
>
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