Two PCs hang up on my network when using Microsoft Excel.

[starriol]

I have a problem, two PCs that use excel a lot hang up with that program A LOT. Tried formatting the PC, checking the ram if it was ok, even I changed the server where the excel file's are located from windows 2000 to 2003 server on a new PC and I have the same problem (I didn't upgrade just for this)....
Anyway, I'm thinking about blaming the version of excel, it's Office 2000 Final release (0 patch). If upgrading to 2003 doens't fix the problem, which I'll check tomorrow, what else could be happening?

On one PC, I get the typical error "Microsoft excel has generated a problem and must be closed" (or something like that). On the other, excel stops responding (it freezes) and when checking the Task Manager, I see excel is using 100% of the CPU.
Both PCs with Windows 2000 SP4.

Any ideas ?

Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot that on one of the two, sometimes, when entering data to excel, the typing slows so much on the PC that you press a key and the machine shows it after 3 secs. This happens some times. The PC has only 128 of ram, could that be it? When running excel, I see the memory usage is around 160 MB, both from ram and page file.

Thanks a lot !!

 

[keeleysam]

So you are editing the spreadsheets on the server?

 

[starriol]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
So you are editing the spreadsheets on the server?

Exactly. Word documents & pictures are on the server. Why? Do you think this has something to do with it?

We do it for easy backups, so I'll rather keep doing it if it is the problem and there's a way to go round it.

 

[keeleysam]

Does it have the same problem if you store them locally?

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Does it have the same problem if you store them locally?

And does it happen with other .xls files?

 

[starriol]

I made a new post about the slowing problem. I solved the hanging up with Office 2003.

But now (and before), I quote:

"I installed a new Windows 2003 server to make it a file server.

When some people here work with word documents on the server, the Microsoft Word slows down a lot. You type and then see the letter 5 secs later on the screen. This didn't happen with an old Windows 2000 server we had, neither happens when working with documents on the desktop.
It happens with both Office 2000 & 2003 and it happens with 2 PC with very similar specs (around 1.2 Ghz processor, windows 2000 sp4 and 128 of ram).

Any ideas ? Problem on the server? Perhaps the new switch I used? Low ram to work from the server? Thanks."

 

[starriol]

I made a new post about the slowing problem. I solved the hanging up with Office 2003.

But now (and before), I quote:

"I installed a new Windows 2003 server to make it a file server.

When some people here work with word documents on the server, the Microsoft Word slows down a lot. You type and then see the letter 5 secs later on the screen. This didn't happen with an old Windows 2000 server we had, neither happens when working with documents on the desktop.
It happens with both Office 2000 & 2003 and it happens with 2 PC with very similar specs (around 1.2 Ghz processor, windows 2000 sp4 and 128 of ram).

Any ideas ? Problem on the server? Perhaps the new switch I used? Low ram to work from the server? Thanks."