Hi, Well after a long hiatus, I figured I have a play with poser again last night, at which point it got interesting... I started to muck about with the default character, (because I usually just delete him :) the results you'll find attached, no post work, but I'll get to that in a moment... When I came back to it after my first render, it refused to reload either the angeldress.obj or the Yuka-proto.obj, even after I'd re-installed the latter, so I figured "screw it" and just started loading figures at random, the results of which aren't quite ready yet, as I need cushions carpet and wallpaper :) But, unfortunately I fell to sleep while waiting for the last render to go through, and when I awoke this morning, my laptop, (or rather Win98) was all but toast, completely screwed, it even took a shot at screwing up my D: partition where I keep my poser stuff, but I was able to stop it in time :) So far I've been through, Win2K, Me, and 98, (all of which have screwed my D: partition at times) and I'm fast running out of options, so besides buying a mac, (which I plan to do :) does anyone have any ideas about running poser on a "stable" OS, that won't spit the dummy, then next time it feels like it? I'm running poser on my laptop, (a HP Omnibook 6000, PIII 600, 128Mb, Rage Mobility Pro chipset) and were it not for the saving grace of the fact that I have BeOS 4.5.2 installed on another partion, (which can mount FAT32 filesystems :) I'd lose everything, each time the OS dies... So, ideas? Anybody else having the same problems? I've tried the usual of using Partiton Magic (5.0 pro) to check out the partitions, and properly format the C: & D: partitions, and installing from scratch each time, but it doesn't seem to make a blind bit of difference... "Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!" ;) later jb

Yikkes! This isn't an OS problem. It sounds like your Laptop is doing some very strange things. Laptops run on batteries. So you could have a combination of a bad battery and a HardDrive that is about to crap out. This kind of thing does NOT happen to the rest of us PC users. ScottA

Download a freeware app called DocMemory. Create the DocMemory bootdisk, boot up your comp with it and check your RAM. It does thorough tests on your ram (with 128 itll take about 10 min to run through them a couple of times). The problems youre having could be caused by bad sectors in your memory corrupting your data.

Cheers! I shall go "hunt the app" and experiment, I'm pretty sure the drive itself is OK, (at least scandisk tells me so...) but I could replace it I suppose, it's a 20Gb 2.5 inch drive, but at the current rate of knots, I may a well buy a PowerBook G4 and have done with it. Anyone got any experience of running Poser on a PBG4? Does it work properly? later jb

My lap top PIII 600, 128Mb, Rage Mobility Pro 8Mb chipset, with 6.2Gb Drive, by Enpower, runs with Win 98SE. It has never failed that bad but I do worry about how hot it gets. Its always getting very hot and the fan is always kicking on. I've also noticed I must scan and defrag more often than on a PC. If I don't it'll go unstable. I've also noticed that if you reach the 1/2 way point on drive space it tends to hang up so I keep the drive free of extra files. Good luck.

Hmmmm. I just thought about the mother boards resourse drivers. Did the lap top come with its own drivers CD? If so is it loaded? Some times the windows default drivers work badly. *Ok your probably way ahead of me on that but I figured it couldn't hurt to mention it. :)