Dennis: Yeah, that one drove me crazy too. It happened to me when I brought my workstation back to the office after my surgery recovery. I had been using Protel with an HP printer in another bedroom on another PC.
I don't know if this is a Windows problem, HP printer driver problem, Delphi problem, or Protel problem. But it sucks anyway. You would think after 30+ years of computer industry, problems like this wouldn't happen. Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Saputelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] protel crashes in win2000 > a variant of this has been posted before, but i thought it might help > someone > > SE99 SP6 had been working fine in win2k > suddenly when starting protel and opening a schematic (not pcbs) or when > a sch was open when the ddb was last closed the following occurred > sporadically: > > a dialog popped up, i think it was a w2k dialog, indicating that protel > was crashed and would be closed and an error log was being generated > protel would just not run, many reboots etc. > > looking around for .log's i found a few (in \system32\config) but could > not examine them because of 'sharing violation', the files were always > open and in use by windows > (so how do you look at them?) > > after a long while i realized i had changed my default printer to one > which was connected to a machine which was turned off > (this machine had no local printer) > > i reset the default printer to Distiller or something else local and now > protel would start! > > moral of the story: > if the printer is nonexistent protel will not start a schem! > > not too good, lost a lot of time on that one > > Dennis Saputelli * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
