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E-Tools for Win98
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Well, I'm officially stumpified. I'm virtually positive it's the SVGA driver ... I guess I'll get in touch with SIS and see if they have any later versions (even in beta-I'll try anything at this point), and Fluid as well to see if they have any thoughts. 
And lest anyone get any wrong ideas-I am under no illusions that this bug is necessarily on Fluid's end. (a) It's an incompatibility between their program and a particular video card driver, and there's no way they could test their program on every possible system configuration, and (b) the previous version of this driver had a known bug that could cause this exact type of system crash. I'd bet three-to-one that there's still a problem with the updated driver ...
I just wish Fluid would get their boards up-there's at least one person who posted in the 'Bugs' forum that was having this same problem.
And lest anyone get any wrong ideas-I am under no illusions that this bug is necessarily on Fluid's end. (a) It's an incompatibility between their program and a particular video card driver, and there's no way they could test their program on every possible system configuration, and (b) the previous version of this driver had a known bug that could cause this exact type of system crash. I'd bet three-to-one that there's still a problem with the updated driver ...
I just wish Fluid would get their boards up-there's at least one person who posted in the 'Bugs' forum that was having this same problem.
Breakdaddy
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Did you try to load up the latest MDAC components from MS yet? This is not a video card issue by the looks of it, but a data access issue with MS' data source config. The MDAC fixes a lot of ODBC issues.
Gonzo the Mofo
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When I got the latest MDAC update it did not (maybe it has for some) ,automatically configure the data source for me. That is why I (see earlier post) had to manually configure it It was not even on the list.
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Odd. My original posts to this thread have vanished ...
I had a separate issue from the original poster. Just a flat-out crash after a few minutes of using the program. After trying a bunch of random things, I finally got a useful error message, citing a GPF in an unrelated file. Turned out to be a SVGA driver, which (it turned out) had a known bug that could cause system crashes in Win98. Sadly, after upgrading the driver, I still had crashes-and recently, I got another error message citing the same driver. (Usually the whole system just freezes, and I need to either Ctrl-Alt-Del twice or, sometimes, hard reboot.)
Data source has never been the problem, although I updated those DAO and Jet drivers before I'd isolated the SVGA driver as a trouble source.
Maybe my initial posts were in another thread ... anyway, that's a summary of the issues I'm having.
I had a separate issue from the original poster. Just a flat-out crash after a few minutes of using the program. After trying a bunch of random things, I finally got a useful error message, citing a GPF in an unrelated file. Turned out to be a SVGA driver, which (it turned out) had a known bug that could cause system crashes in Win98. Sadly, after upgrading the driver, I still had crashes-and recently, I got another error message citing the same driver. (Usually the whole system just freezes, and I need to either Ctrl-Alt-Del twice or, sometimes, hard reboot.)
Data source has never been the problem, although I updated those DAO and Jet drivers before I'd isolated the SVGA driver as a trouble source.
Maybe my initial posts were in another thread ... anyway, that's a summary of the issues I'm having.
Gonzo the Mofo
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Gpf? Is that the "This program has performed an illegal operation."crash? I had a few of those too. I had to delete a chr. file that apparently was corrupted. Probably no help here but uninstalling does not delete every file. You have to throw the whole folder in the trash sometimes to get rid of it all.
Gonzo the Mofo
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Sorry to be so unhelpful. The only other thought that comes to my mind is one time I had a lot of crashing problems and it turned out to be I needed a new sound card. Even though I still had sound. What kind of video card do you have?
Just bumping for any fresh ideas ... I haven't tried messing with this for a few days, hoping a prescient dream or divine revelation would happen by. No luck so far ... I'm thinking about trying an upgrade to Windows XP, or getting a new video card. Any less desperate and/or costly possible solutions are appreciated.
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