our replacemen,t second hand , laptop we got to run our weather station keeps crashing.
we have narrowed it down to the usb to serial drivers that connect the davis weather station to the laptop.
they kept wanting to reinstall and the laptop would get the BSOD.
we also noticed that everytime we turned a desk lamp next to the lap top on or off the computer beeped.
then we realised that it was when we turned the lamp off that the computer crashed
they were both on the same plug box with the davis station.
what was happening. ?
was it a power surge when i turned the light off combined with the fact that i have disabled all the power saving features in the laptop so it runs constantly and does not shut down.
we had an old 2 GB ram toshiba running the station but it was getting tired, we have a POE weather cam and flight tracker and are ftping to different sites and it was very slow.
we now have a HP pro 6560 with i7 quad core with 8GB, very fast and very flakey