Road Angel software crashes my PC

[Bruce Fielding]

Anyone else having trouble with it? I double click the icon, nothing... check with task manager - 'not responding'. 'End program' and it reboots the computer! Nothing unusual about the PC - running 2Mz Pentium 4 with lots of memory and nothing strange on it!

Help!

[robp]

This is a well known problem.

If the computer is running too fast the Road Angel will detect it warn you by crashing.

Sorry I cant be of any use whatsoever

[cpearson]

[robp]

cpearson said:

Ah, welcome back Mr Pearson!

[Stig]

Anyone else having trouble with it? I double click the icon, nothing... check with task manager - 'not responding'. 'End program' and it reboots the computer! Nothing unusual about the PC - running 2Mz Pentium 4 with lots of memory and nothing strange on it!

Help!

Is some other software using all the COM ports?

[Stig]

Anyone else having trouble with it? I double click the icon, nothing... check with task manager - 'not responding'. 'End program' and it reboots the computer! Nothing unusual about the PC - running 2Mz Pentium 4 with lots of memory and nothing strange on it!

Help!

Also Bruce, after the installation, remove the Road Angel application from your 'startup' folder and only run it from the desktop. This worked for me.

[Chris_N]

I had major problems too when I first installed it that resulted in me spending two nights messing around with my PC - which made me very nervous as I'm a bit of a dunce when it comes to these things.

As Stig said, it was to do with the COM ports - turned out it kept trying to use the COM port used by something else rather than the one it was plugged in, resulting in a nice blue screen every time.

I eventually managed to reconfigure things so it could have the COM port it seemed dead set on using and has worked fine ever since.

Hope that helps.

Chris