Hi all,
I had problems with an application that refused to run on a Pentium 4, 2.4GHz machine. I tried a lot of stuff (reinstalling/reimaging, drivers etc) and nothing worked. Finally the vendor came back to me and suggested the following fix which worked:
“The SYMANTIC Java JIT (Just-In-Time) complier has not been enhanced to execute on Pentium 4 processors. This has been replaced by the Sun complier with release 1.3.1 of Java. However the symcjit.dll is still distributed as part of the windows installation. This dll file must be deleted for the payroll wizard to execute correctly. To correct the problem, for Pentium 4 users (of any Java application) you must delete all copies of the file symcjit.dll from the client’s workstation. The best way to achieve this is to use SEARCH from the START menu to make sure you catch all instances of the file.
If any copies of this file (and there may be several on a single machine) remain in the PATH, the Java runtime will “Dr Watson” theinstant it is executed”
My question is, have I missed some obvious problems with the higher range P4s? Are there known issues with common windows components like Java Virtual Machine, or is this just a one off? The confusing this is that the problem I had with this app didn’t happen on a model of the PC where the motherboard was one model older and the processor was 1.7GHz. All the other components were exactly the same.
Thanks for any suggestions