Windows Update to Win2000 causes problems with DLLs

[GretchenSkellyZimmer]

Win2k, Labview 6.1

After downloading & installing a Windows Update, and rebooting the PC, cannot run my VI due to:

"A dynamic link library initialization routine failed."

(acutally, several DLLs failed)

any hints? anyone else having problems today?

Gretchen Zimmer

PPPL

[Conseils]

Are you using any special (third party) DLL's in your application or is your application all LabVIEW?

I have run LabVIEW 6.1 (and 6i in fact) on Windows 2K without problems for many years.... even with all the current updates.

[GretchenSkellyZimmer]

It's the Labview DAQ dll.  I have a 2nd PC with the exact same set up, and I had no problem after installing the Wind Updates this morning.

The very first error msg is: "Invalid Access to Memory location"

G

[Conseils]

When you say the same set up, things aren't often as simple as they seem....
Could it be that the motherboard is different or the BIOS configurations are different?

I once had a major problem on a system after a Windows update introduced a new graphics driver... took quite a while to sort out what had happened. The change to the graphics driver for a Matrox board caused a similar problem. On thier own each worked fine, it was the combinations of hardware and patches the broke the system. I had to uninstall the graphics driver and install a previous revision.

[Ray.R]

Was it after installing SP4?

I had some similar issues after installing it to accomodate another product..  Since I had no time to investigate, I rolled back the upgrade.  Vi's worked... and I had finished the project..  Never found out why the SP caused problems.. 

If you find something, let us know what it was..

Thanks,

JLV
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