homophonic keyboard and computer crashes

[Alexander Boguslawski]

Sorry for having my last sentence cut off.  It said that the problems
happen only in e-mail program, but not in Word.  I hope that the owners
of Dell Latitude 600 can shed some light on our quandary.
Alexander Boguslawski


>>> Alexander.Boguslawski at Rollins.edu 4/4/2005 9:57 AM >>>

Dear Cole and others,

I am personally familiar with the problem you've encountered.  After my
Compaq laptop got stolen, it was replaced with a Dell Latitude D600,
with Windows XP.  When I loaded homophonic keyboard, the computer
started crashing every time I would switch to Russian (in Netscape,
Thunderbird, Word, and many other programs) and there was absolutely
nothing our IT people could do to fix the problem.  They even re-imaged
the hard drive * and no change.  Finally, I requested another computer
(another Dell Latitude D600). I gave them the address of Amherst's site
and they downloaded Amherst's homophonic keyboard for me.   That
keyboard layout could be improved, but it works.  I am not trying to
fine-tune it with the keyboard's manager, which worked so well for me on
my Compaq and on my home PC, because I am convinced that the problem
lies somewhere in the Dell's file management and hard drive structure.
I have to mention, that occassionally I still get blue screens forcing
me to restart the computer, but it happens o
Alexander Boguslawski, Professor
Rollins College

>>> critendn at PRINCETON.EDU 4/3/2005 3:44 AM >>>

Over the past months, I have developed a problem with my laptop (a Dell
Latitude D600, Windows XP): whenever I toggle over to the Russian, the
computer crashes.  The keyboard layout I use for the Russian is the
homophonic keyboard contributed by Gyula Zsigri that I downloaded from
the aatseel.org website.   Not long ago the the computer began crashing
even when I wasn't toggling to Russian, so three weeks ago I had to have
the whole computer reimaged.  After, I re-downloaded the keyboard,
thinking that the problem was somehow manifesting itself when I tried to
use the keyboard program but did not originate there.  For the past two
weeks, no problems at all.  But for the past two days, my computer has
again been crashing whenever I toggle over to the Russian.  Does anyone
else have this problem, and can anyone suggest a solution?
Many thanks,
Cole Crittenden.

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