Here's what happened next, which is of significant importance.
I was able to d/l another copy of DASH core, first was made inoperable fom windows repair. Chrome will not update, or repair, because they don't want to support my OS.
I ran the DASH installer, and it loaded quickly, faster than initially, sync occurred, and it began d/l'ing the block chain, this time around.
Multiple lockups. Forced to do a hard reset. Many times...
Somewhere there was mention of the program rebooting a few times during sync, but it was more than that.
I do feel there should be better indiction of what is really going on with the various sync operations. The green bar, stuck forever at 50% or 75% is just not good enough ! It should be easy enough to include some better visual indicator in this program.
There is no matrix display of 0's & 1's onscreen from which a user can tell when it hs locked up the machine. You will bump the mouse a tad, when you notice there's not been a blip from your hd indicator lite in a while, and also no activity on your lan activity display, and the mouse is locked up. Period.
Three, four, five times, over many hours! I kept at the challenge...
Then, without warning, the green bar, which had declared 100% for eons, dissappeared and I was good to go ! Contact with 8 nodes and I could conduct affairs, if only I had DASH ! Almost immediately I checked, and those two prior tests I had initially done, were present in the log !
THIS, is a major biggie !I had scrambled the program to where it Would Not Run! I reloaded, from a new installer, and my tests were noted within the log.
This, inspires confidence in the devs !
The encryption password was still good, and I do believe I would Not have lost DASH, had I owned any, in the system. I am impressed !
This has been so much fun I handwrote a log while battling through it ! I'll post it, next...
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8:04 click on DASH startup
8:07 sync, working on MNs
8:12 black screen
Restart..start win normally.. vista home premium
8:16 click DASH 32 bit
8:31 it's locked up.. no hd lite, no cursor movement, hard reset
8:32 restart, restart windows normally
8:33 DASH clicked
8:36 OoS... Done, sync MNs, 8 active node connections
Question.. are my repetitive efforts placing a strain on the network?
8:52 sync MN winners 75%, mouse ok
8:55 100%.. sync budgets
8:56 sync additional data 100%
9:04 locked up.. no mouse, no hd lite
9:06 hard reset, start win normally
9:07 loaded, click on DASH core
9:11 sync MN all over again, 50%...
9:22 sync MN winners, addl data 100%.. mouse locked up, no hd lite, no lan lite activity. hard reset
9:27 sync @ 75%.. mouse & lan active
9:30 sync budgets, addl data 100%... Mouse locked, lan lite off, hd lite off, hard reboot
9:32 start win normally
9:33 home screen
9:34 click on DASH Core in startup progs
9:37 No block source..5hrs behind.. sync..working on MN..50%
9:47 sync MN..addl data 75%.. mouse active, lan active, no hd lite
9:57 I got my Green Check ! 8 active nodes, wallet encrypted + unlocked, prior tests showing
Next question.. Can I minimize and run in background ?
10:04 Network traffic screen shows multiple spikes, 36kB rx, 19kB tx, w/red level @ <20kB/s
10:10 <20kB rx floor, 10kB tx
10:12 back to <10kB rx, tx floor
10:31 floor @ 15kB rx, 2kB tx
10:50 I fell like Cypher, watching the matrix ! Network hash runs @ 5kB rx, 2kB tx
10:54 Apparently NW traffic monitoring has auto-ranging scale... could be labelled better
Question.. Does my properly functioning station assist NW flow ?
11:19 Periodic tx spikes to 15kB
Question... will this run in the background? Time for a test !
11:22 tx spike to 20kB/s...25kB/s
12:15 All good, seems OK.. will now minimize.. closed traffic view, locked wallet, minimized
3:30 DASH Core H & W check... All Good ! Went outside to work on my lawnmower, and it rained !!!
7:07 All is well.. safari'ed to email acct & read news.. prog crashed.. win says web2kit failure?.. closed twice.. then d/l firefox
Return to DASH.. running strong & sure ! 179mB rx, 76mB tx...
Bandwidth is gonna be a factor around here, as for most people... this LT is hardwired to the TP-Link router, the tv runs 12/24/365 off a roku wifi box and Plex on this LT, there's a fps gamer hardwired, a 5g tethered part-time, guest surfers, and a couple tablets, LT's, and a printer.
I do feel like Cypher ! lol