> On 17 May 00, at 9:57, Benny.VanHoudt wrote:
>
> > I've been using prime95 since sept. 1998 and never had any problems.
> > Until yesterday I was testing an exponent in the 9.5 - 10 million
> > range, but suddenly an error appeared while contacting the Primenet
> > server (the exponent was almost finished +98%).
> >
> > I got the commen windows 95 error message: This program has performed
> > an illegal operation and will be shut down.
>
> Are you using HTTP or RPC to communicate with the PrimeNet server? If
> you're using RPC, try changing to HTTP. If you have a local proxy
> configured, make sure it's still operational.
>
> The other thing you could try is restoring the two .dll files which
> should be in the Prime95 directory; download a fresh copy of
> prime95.zip (from my server
> ftp://lettuce.edsc.ulst.ac.uk/gimps/software/prime95.zip
> if entropia.com is still being uncooperative) & extract them. Or
> simply restore the files from a backup.
That's what I did and the previous problem disappeared. The
result is that prime95 is working again but was unable to
use the files with the intermediate results. As a result it's
starting all over again. It took my PC more than two months
to get to the current point, and the exponent would have expired
on the 19th of may.
Any suggestions ?
Benny
>
> Regards
> Brian Beesley
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Benny Van Houdt,
University of Antwerp
Dept. Math. and Computer Science
PATS - Performance Analysis of Telecommunication
Systems Research Group
Universiteitsplein, 1
B-2610 Antwerp
Belgium
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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