GPF and MS Access 97

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D Mulcahy

Hi there,
I am running MS Access 97 under win98 on a Pentium II with
64 mb RAM. I have encountered a problem as follows:

MS Access caused a general protection fault in module
mmsystem.dll at 0004.00000dbc

I have tried reproducing this but to no avail. However the
problem occcurs mostly when word 97 and access are running
causing my machine to eventually crash,.

Any suggestions, solutions much appreciated

D Mulcahy
 
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'69 Camaro

Hi.

A general protection fault means that protected memory has been "stepped" on
by a misbehaving application, i.e., data stored by one process at a certain
address in memory has been overwritten by another process. I'm almost
positive Windows 98 did not have memory protection software built into the
operating system. You'll have fewer of these GPF's if you:

1.) Run fewer applications at the same time; or
2.) Increase your computer's RAM; or
3.) Upgrade your operating system to a version that offers memory
protection (Windows NT-based operating systems provide memory protection);
or
4.) Use a combination of the above; or
5.) Replace the computer with another one which has a newer operating
system and a lot more RAM.

IIRC Microsoft Access 97 requires about 32 MB of RAM for a very small and
very basic database application. I would allot at least 128 - 512 MB of RAM
for an Access 97 database that was query-intensive or calculation-intensive.
So you have a wide range of possibilities for the amount of RAM, depending
upon your database needs. I'd say that your computer is currently at the
lowest end of the range, because some of that 64 MB of RAM is used for the
operating system (IIRC it's 32 MB), so it's not available for applications.

HTH.

Gunny

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