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#7307 - 08/04/06 10:51 AM Printing Makes Computer Freeze
Karen Offline
Karen

Registered: 11/17/04
Posts: 167
Loc: Pine Brook, NJ
Help!!! We had a brown-out on Tuesday and have had BIG problems since. Two computers in the office completely freeze and need to be shut down whenever we try to print, or print preview in ANY module. Other programs, such as excel, word print without issue on both of these computers. I can log in as myself on other computers in the office and can print in Adagio without the shut down. We had our computer tech in the office for 3 hrs. yesterday and he was stumped. We are set up through a network. Any suggestions as far as what could possibly have gone wrong or changed in these computers to affect such a problem?

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#7308 - 08/04/06 11:23 AM Re: Printing Makes Computer Freeze
Douglas Dickie Offline
Adagio God

Registered: 06/02/99
Posts: 4414
Loc: Vancouver, BC
If you have not already done so try shutting down all workstations and the server so that all running processes are removed from memory.

Have your workstations 'Temp' folders cleaned out.

Buy good UPS's for all workstations and servers so that next time you have a brown out it does not affect your computers this way.
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Douglas Dickie
AccSys Solutions Inc
Phone: 1.888.534.4344
ddickie@accsyssolutions.com

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#7309 - 08/04/06 01:56 PM Re: Printing Makes Computer Freeze
Karen Offline
Karen

Registered: 11/17/04
Posts: 167
Loc: Pine Brook, NJ
Hi Douglas,
We've started the computers and server MANY times, and all temp files were deleted. Since the computers are freezing ONLY when in Adagio, I was hoping there would be suggestions as to settings our tech could be checking into that possibly are corrupted or merely changed. Or, even suggestions as to things we should be looking into that would be unrelated to the brown out, since only 2 of our computers are affected.
Thanks for your suggestions. I appreciate any help!

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#7310 - 08/04/06 03:38 PM Re: Printing Makes Computer Freeze
Bruce Gardner Online   content
Adagio Wizard

Registered: 06/15/04
Posts: 3613
Loc: Toronto ON, Canada
Karen:

Have you tried uninstalling Adagio on the 2 computers in question? If not, uninstall the software through the Windows Control Panel. Then run the Adagio workstation set-up again. This is very quick.

Let us know if that makes a difference.
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Bruce Gardner
ARX Business Solutions Inc.

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#7311 - 08/04/06 04:35 PM Re: Printing Makes Computer Freeze
Karen Offline
Karen

Registered: 11/17/04
Posts: 167
Loc: Pine Brook, NJ
Hi Bruce,

Yes, our tech did the uninstall, and reinstall of all the modules yesterday. Didn't help.

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#7312 - 08/04/06 05:22 PM Re: Printing Makes Computer Freeze
Michael Mulrooney Offline
Adagio Virtuoso

Registered: 02/07/02
Posts: 839
Loc: Vancouver, BC
Hi,

From the Workstations that are having the problem run CHKSYS.EXE form the ..\Softrak\System folder on the Network where Adagio is installed.

Adagio uses Crystal reports and the local machine must be set up correctly. Doing a Workstation install on the troublesome stations should have fixed the problem, CHKSYS will verify that all expected files are where they should be and report anything that is incorrect.

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#7313 - 08/04/06 07:21 PM Re: Printing Makes Computer Freeze
Softrak Support Online   happy

Adagio Action Team

Registered: 03/09/99
Posts: 11547
Loc: Vancouver, BC Canada
Hi Karen,

Try printing/previewing the company profile report in an Adagio app - this is the simplest report to print from a technical sense. If this doesn't work, then there no other reports could work either. Michael's notes are correct that CHKSYS should be run.

Perhaps try doing the re-install of the Adagio application from one of the trouble workstations.
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Regards,
Softrak Tech Support

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#7314 - 08/14/06 02:25 PM Re: Printing Makes Computer Freeze
Karen Offline
Karen

Registered: 11/17/04
Posts: 167
Loc: Pine Brook, NJ
Thanks everyone for your suggestions!

The computers that "froze" were running Windows 2000. All others XP Pro. So, we changed the Windows 2000 to XP on those computers....all is now running "fairly" smoothly. Problems with very slow printing of the reports now....at least it's better than not running the reports at all!

Karen

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#7315 - 08/14/06 03:12 PM Re: Printing Makes Computer Freeze
Retired_Guy Offline
Adagio Master

Registered: 03/16/99
Posts: 10504
Loc: Canada
Hi Karen,

It's possible that during the move from Windows 2000 to Windows XP on the workstation that a new printer driver was selected. Perhaps the problem was there.

When you say that the reports are taking a long time to print - which reports (specifically) are you talking about?
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Andrew Bates

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#7316 - 08/14/06 04:31 PM Re: Printing Makes Computer Freeze
Steve Schwartz Offline
Adagio God

Registered: 03/10/02
Posts: 4511
Loc: Wynnewood, PA
Maybe this is coming too late, but try uninstalling your antivirus software to see if that has an effect. I have had a number of clients complain about printing problems that went away after the antivirus software was uninstalled (and eventually a new brand was re-installed).

Steve

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