Winbox has worked fine for several days, but this morning it is crashing like crazy on one RouterOS system and is fine on a second RouterOS system - using the same XP box to access both.
Any ideas why this is happening?
first try clearing the cached winbox files in your %userprofile%\Application Data\Mikrotik directory. Just delete the entire winbox directory, (backup your saved router logins in case they are removed) once you’ve deleted that, remove the winbox.exe file, and re-download it from the router. Then try and reconnect, it should work fine.
Thanks for the reply. Since my initial post, I have seen the Winbox condition clear up by itself, then revert back to a crashing state, now it is working again with no intervention on my part during the entire sequence.
One addtitional thing that I have noticed when Winbox is in the crashing state: The setup I have is a wireless AP - when Winbox is crashing, the wireless clients are losing connection as well and are unable to re-associate with teh AP. Then, after some period of time, without any intervention, the clients re-associate, at which point, Windbox begins working again.
So maybe it is not Windbox per se, but something else within RouterOS.
I will collect more data to see if I can determine any sort of pattern causing this condition.