posted on October 2, 2000 06:18:00 PM
Hi! My mother got this message on start up of her computer today:
Terminated thread due to a stack overflow problem. AVXD possibly recently installed has consumed too much stack space. In the settings of MIN SP'S in system INI or remove recently installed VXD'S There are currently 4 SPS allocated
The screen this message appeared on was all blue (not the usual desktop).
She is running Win 98.
If anyone can tell us what this may mean, please let me know. Thanks!
Trying to interpret this stuff is not easy, but it basically means something is wrong. I've seen it, but it doesn't mean anything to non-geeks. How's that for profound thought? She should shut the machine down (all the way) and try rebooting. She might need to use her back up disk to get up and running if it won't properly reboot.
Failing that if you can get to the DOS prompt,type WIN and hit enter. Back up whatever files possible and prepare to reinstall everything if typing WIN doesn't get you to the desktop.
[ edited by mballai on Oct 2, 2000 07:06 PM ]
posted on October 2, 2000 07:11:03 PM
mballai - thanks! She did shut down and restart and it seems to be alright for now, but have no idea what all that meant.
posted on October 2, 2000 07:17:37 PM
Yikes, doesn't sound good, does it. If you are familiar with how to get to different news groups (using Outlook Express, for example), search for groups using:
microsoft.public.win98
There will be several of them. Pick the most likely one or 2 and post this question.
Also, you can go to the MS web site and search for "stack space" or "AVXD" -- have to admit, though, I've never had much practical luck using their search feature.
posted on October 2, 2000 07:31:13 PM
Sometimes when you shut down and reboot to fast your RAM dont get a chance to fully clear and defrag completely.
Alway when your computer crashes or you shut down or cold shut down allow at least 45 seconds to a min before you restart.
A stack over flow has to do with memory or virtual memory which is control by windows and a VDX is a part of a driver like Modem VDX and so on and many times this will be the hardware you have trouble with if your on line and you do a cold shut down many time you reboot faster then the modem can reset and on reboot when it would try to load your modem software it finds the driver busy still running.
Your browser can cause this same trouble if it was running some activex thing if your Ram dont clear out the computer uses all ram on boot up and it found much of it still in use by the activex program that never terminated before you rebooted.
there are other reasons for stack over runs but drivers that never had time to terminate while rebooting to fast is the main reason.
when these errors happen usually powering down waiting a min and rebooting will cause disk scan and reset the configuration to it last sucessfull reboot and all will be well.
edited to add the processor has a load of task it must share with each peice of hardware and program running on the computer this list of task is the stack a stack over flow means it ran is a over flow of tasks it simply finds no time to complete
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[ edited by dman3 on Oct 2, 2000 07:36 PM ]
posted on October 2, 2000 10:46:46 PM
This type of error is usually called a "blue screen" and everyone is right - shut down and wait a minute, then reboot.
