Hey Reboot!
wanted to give you an update
I tried all of your suggestions from above and got everything onto its own IRQ, etc. I even reinstalled windows and went to your link "to cache or not to cache" and increased freemem from 53mb to 83mb. Still same crash problem, so on a hunch from something I heard somewhere (probably from another string here) I upgraded my video card. I was running a 2mb ATI mach64; now running 8mb ati xpert 98. Guess what?
Problem solved! (and there was much rejoicing...)
I guess this proves yet again that a computer is only as good as its weakest link; in my case the video card and/or modem. I guess modem was hogging resources from display even on different IRQ?
Anyway, just wanted to thank you again for the tips!
bobo
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