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Re: Folders freeze on opening

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From: Trevor Sommers
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 00:00
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In article <B2D685BD9668DDAE9@stirrins.demon.co.uk>,
trevor@stirrins.notdemon.co.uk (Trevor Sommers) wrote:

>Subject: Folders freeze on opening
>From: trevor@stirrins.notdemon.co.uk (Trevor Sommers)
>Organization: Stirrings of Sheffield
>Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:23:09 +0000
>Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac
>
>I have been having, on and off, an annoying problem of a system freeze when
>opening a folder. What I get is a sort of frozen dotted shadow outline of
>the folder perimeter as it is in the process of opening.
>
>I am using 8.5.1 on a G3 with 128 ram.
>
>I doesn't seem to matter what the folder is/contains and it happens
>sporadically.
>
>I have done an extention reinstall from base 8.5 but have not tracked down
>any culprit. Anyone come across this before?
>
>I have done  a rebuild of the desktop and even Norton utilities reported no
>fault.
>
>Trevor
>
>

Follow up to the problem - I seem to have isolated the cause. It appears to
me the control panel Formac Graphic accelerator 2.2 for promedia 40 card
which goes with the Pronitron 17/500 screen. I am running. Would be
interested to know if anyone has a similar set up.
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Subject: Re: Folders freeze on opening
Date: 1999/02/07
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