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by jramappa

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Sometimes when working on my system,I get the message on the blue screen-"There are no stack pages.It may be necessary to increase the setting of "MinSPs"in system.INI to prevent possible stack failure,there are currently 4SPs allotted"
Please explain how to increase the setting in system.INI and solve the problem.
Thanks.

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by syscokid

There's a line in the [386 Enh] section of your system.ini file that reads "MinSPs=4". You need to edit the system.ini file (using Notepad, it should be in C:\windows; you could also use sysedit.exe or msconfig.exe, depending on your flavor of Windows). Increase the number by increments of 4 until the problem goes away.

Here's a MS article about it.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q149/0/83.asp

(Sometimes when I cut and paste URL's it looks ok to me but once the answer is posted, an extraneous space will have crept in. Make sure you delete any extraneous spaces or the page won't load).

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q149/0/83.asp

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