Labview crashes on startup

[Zen]

I've installed labview 5.1.1 and had it working without any problems
until last week.

I now crashes on startup, causing an Dr. Watson Error: 'Stack Overflow
(0xc00000fd) adress: 0x00783a85'

I found no help in the NI site. I tried to delete the labview.ini file
(because I already had a Watson error in the past, due to the
'editRecentPaths' and 'menuSetup' lines) but he problem remain the same.

[Rishipa]

Zen wrote - Labview crashes on startup
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Hi Zen,

Following three things come to my mind

1) A rather simple solution is to check if you have at least buffers=32 and
stacks=9256 statements in your config.sys (although Win 98 doesn't need user
to do it)

2) Have you changed any video adapter settings lately to check it the cause
is not video.

3) If you are using Windows 98 then get acquainted with "Make Compatible
utility" provided by Microsoft. It make an application compatible with
Windows 98 that might have been made incompatible due to recent changes made
by other applications that you might have installed. You may want to use
this utility to troubleshoot crashing of an application. Here is what you
may want to do - Click the Star
t button, click Run, and then type
mkcompat.exe which will increase stack memory for an application.


Hope this helps

Cordially,
Rishipa
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[Zen]

Rishipa a écrit :
>
> Zen wrote - Labview crashes on startup
> =======================================
> Hi Zen,
>
> Following three things come to my mind


I'm running Win NT4 SP4 and haven't modified my hardaware or software
configuration since 6 months.

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> >
> > Following three things come to my mind
>
> I'm running Win NT4 SP4 and haven't modified my hardaware or software
> configuration since 6 months.

If you have recently changed your menus, it is possible to get them
confused so
that LV crashes when starting up and trying to read them. Deleting the menu
items out of the .ini file will usually fix it, but you may also want to delete
or move the location of those menu files. In the LV directory, there is
a menus
directory, inside there will be the four shipped directories -- basic, daq_view,
default, and t&m_view. Move or delete other directories from there.

If that doesn't help, you should probably run a disk check/fix utility,
and after
you know that your disk and directory information is good
, see if LV launches
after that. If LV still doesn't launch, you should uninstall and
reinstall it.

Greg McKaskle

[Zen]

Greg McKaskle a écrit :
> If you have recently changed your menus, it is possible to get them
> confused so
> that LV crashes when starting up and trying to read them.

Right, there something with the menus.

In can launch labview with all my menus (files in basic, daq_view,
default, and t&m_view. directories) exept root.mnu in 'default'
directory.

Is this menu important?
I also tried to delete my labview.ini file, but the program recreates
another ini file. Ans this new file contains the following lines:

menu.1=C:\Program Files\National
Instruments\LabVIEW\menus\default\root.mnu\function
menuLoc.1=276,-1,355,134
menu.2=C:\Program Files\National
Instruments\LabVIEW\menus\default\root.mnu\control
menuLoc.2=149,-1,228,134

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> > If you have recently changed your menus, it is possible to get them
> > confused so
> > that LV crashes when starting up and trying to read them.
>
> Right, there something with the menus.
>
> In can launch labview with all my menus (files in basic, daq_view,
> default, and t&m_view. directories) exept root.mnu in 'default'
> directory.
>
> Is this menu important?
> I also tried to delete my labview.ini file, but the program recreates
> another ini file. Ans this new file contains the following lines:
>
> menu.1=C:\Program Files\National
> Instruments\LabVIEW\menus\default\root.mnu\function
> menuLoc.1=276,-1,355,134
> menu.2=C:\Program Files\National
> Instruments\LabVIEW\menus\default\root.mnu\control
> menuLoc.2=149,-1,228,1
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It is normal for LV to create a .ini file when one didn't already exist.
It is where LV stores various values, and while it isn't absolutely
necessary to have one, it is the only way LV can be customized for your
preferences. The root.mnu file is the one that LV uses as the root of
the menu tree. It is the first menu file that LV loads. Deleting it
will mean that you must pick some other menu set. You are probably
better off getting the file from another installation, or uninstall and
reinstall.

Greg McKaslke