IDE crashes

[pjc30943]

On a fast XP machine, and a 1281ae, the IDE crashes about once a day at best, and several times a day at worst--generally while downloading or verifying; the cursor just hangs at an hourglass, and the program stops responding thereafter. I download revised programs a few dozen times a day.
The cable is about four feet long, and terminates into a solderless breadboard.

Anyone have similar experiences, and have thoughts on whether this is a software failure, or hardware related?

[mikep]

On a fast XP machine, and a 1281ae, the IDE crashes about once a day at best, and several times a day at worst--generally while downloading or verifying; the cursor just hangs at an hourglass, and the program stops responding thereafter. I download revised programs a few dozen times a day.

This appears to be a known problem with the IDE and is unrelated to the type of ZX processor being used. See this thread in the IDE forum http://www.zbasic.net/forum/about532.html