I had this type of problem a while back, and it turned out to be caused by the video drivers (or lack thereof) I had on that NT box. Make sure the display is set to at least 256 colors, on our machine it was stuck at 16 colors so the .exe wouldn't run.
Brian Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Software Engineer, CleverMedia http://clevermedia.com/ <http://clevermedia.com/> > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Iain Sheild > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:16 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: <lingo-l> Windows NT cannot run Director exes? > > > Sorry if you have read this already although I think it might have got > swamped by the spam yesterday - it is really important to me. > I get the following error when on opening director exe files on a nt 4 > workstation (running service pack 6) can anybody shed any light on this > situation?? (I have logged on as the administrator and the machine is not > networked in any case) The file trys to start, produces the error log and > then shuts down. Does NT run Director exes? > This is the error message: > exception:access violation(0xc0000005).address: 0x0802d44f > The error occurrs with ANY Director exe file - I could paste in the error > log if this is helpful... > Thanks in advance > Iain > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
