Windows XP System crash with LabView 7.0

[unclebump]

I did the xp sp2 upgrade at home without any issues, but I made them send me a cd.

[Ray.R]

Good move...

I may have found out what happened...

Apparently, you need to be up-to-date with all the patches & so on BEFORE doing the upgrade to SP2.

I kept that PC off the network and away from any bad patch...
So it was not up-to-date...

Apparently once it is at SP2, it works well...
So I will give it another chance... from scratch (unfortunately)

🙂

[CoastalMaineBird]

FWIW, I had a client with a similar case of unexplained lockups, while running tests with my software. It didn't happen on my machine (Win2k) but did on his (WinXP).

We looked in the SYSTEM EVENT LOG, and found a message that preceded EVERY lockup:

3/3/2005 8:29:13 AM Service Control Manager Information None 7036 N/A XXXXXXX The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service entered the stopped state.

When we turned OFF this service, he was able to run 15+ tests (20 minutes each) without failure. When we turned it back ON, we got the bad behavior (lockups, "out of virtual memory" messages) back.

Bottom line: The event log can give you clues.

[Ray.R]

Were you burning a CD at the time???
(I think not...)

I don't see the link...

Is it a background process... simply waiting, idle, but yet causing a crash..

- confuse-scious -

😉

[CoastalMaineBird]

No, he wasn't burning a CD - there's not even a burner on the machine.

I'm not sure there is a link, I'm just pointing out that the event logs led to the discovery.

[Ray.R]

strange...


However, in my quest to install XP-SP2... I gave up!!
It doesn't like me or my PC.. (waste of $$)

So it's back to good 'ol Win-2000... for ethernity..

Long live 2K..

No x-mas gifts for Uncle Gates.. 😛