After another DXbase crash, I checked and learned that the video card in my 4-year-old Dell is also an NVIDIA. Since the problem began with the installation on XP Home on an 98SE system (didn't wipe the HD), I downloaded the new driver as Bill did. So far no problems.
One bonus was another problem, which I had ignored, is also fixed. My cursor "erased" some of the display in DXbase as I moved it. I had to minimize DXbase and restore the window to repaint the screen. I blamed it on the old PC with its 16M video memory. Anyway, all gone now. I even increased the resolution on my 19" monitor to 1280 X 1024, which works fine now that the PC is right in front of me, versus a foot farther away as it had been. I can see lots of columns on the log window, which I use with Andale Mono 10-font. The moral - don't forget to update your video driver when you update your operating system. The better moral - don't be as cheap as I am and just buy a faster PC with a new OS; I've wasted a lot of time on the upgrade. Jim N7US ----- Original Message ----- From: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DXbase Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [DXBase] Re: Program crashing with XP Home Edition Jim I read and reread your help request. And I think you said that the crash occurred when you selected a scroll enable column. This rang a bell. The other day I installed a Nvidia based video card into my 'rock stable' machine. I'm running windows XP and always do a "set restore point" prior to any changes. This video card was PCI and in addition to my AGP Matrox dual monitor card. I installed with the standard Windows XP video drivers. Boy was I surprised when I went to change a CQ zone, clicked on the scroll bar and had the computer crash. I duplicated this issue a number of times. Error messages were too fast to read. Click on other log fields did not cause any crash. Delete the drivers, disable the video card and do a 'Restore. Now I'm back to rock stable. I went to the NVidia site, found new XP drivers and installed. No problems and I'm rock stable again, but now with 3 monitors instead of only two. So, this may not be of help, but may offer you a clue. PS: For older OS users. XP's Restore feature is worth the upgrade in it's self and it's Rock Stable. It also handles resources better. I can vouch for DXB running perfectly on XP Pro. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DXbase Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 7:29 AM Subject: [DXBase] Re: Program crashing with XP Home Edition > Does this mean I have a hardware problem? The next error message was: > > Dxb2003.exe application error. The instruction at "0x73dd1351" referenced > memory at "0x00000004". The memory could not be "read". Then I had to > click OK to terminate the program. > > Maybe my 4-year-old RAM is tired and wants to retire. > > Jim N7US > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "DXbase Reflector" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:25 AM > Subject: Program crashing with XP Home Edition > > > I've had a couple of program crashes in the last few days. Never happened > before I converted this PC from 98SE to XP Home and didn't happen when I > first converted. Just clicked on the prefix for an AH3D QSO (I also had one > in 1996 not KH3), and it crashed. > > The message was that "DXB2003 MFC Application" crashed. > > Jim N7US > > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > >
