Errol,

Can you provide more details?  A filled keyboard buffer should not cause a
PC to freeze up.  She may lose keystrokes if she gets ahead of the buffer,
but even that sounds doubtful.  It takes an AWFUL LOT to get ahead of the
buffer.  You can prove this by just holding down one single key (the 8 key
is as good a choice as any) and let the auto-repeat try to fill up the
buffer.

Does this machine actually run in the DOS operating system or is this a
DOS program being run from inside Windows?  If it is Windows, which
version?  If it is Windows, are there other applications running at the
same time?  If it is a DOS system, are there any TSRs running?  Is the
machine networked?  If so, how?

Is there something unique (outside the normal day to day routine) that she
does on the days that it locks up?  Maybe a certain application that is
only used 3-4 times a month?

Without these kinds of details, we would just be guessing in the dark.

Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Errol <[log in to unmask]>

> Greetings All,
>
> At the office we run an old DOS stock control program on a 486 Cyrix
66mHz
> machine with 8meg's ram.
>
> The lady who punches the data in is so fast that she causes the computer
to
> freeze about 3 times a month.
>
> I suspect that this may have something to do with her filling the
keyboard
> buffer ?
>
> Is there a way to overcome this problem as I am tired of telling her to
slow
> down ?
>
> Any help will be most appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Errol Lishman

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