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by tsigam

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This is the error that one of my user receives when windows is rebooting. "An internal STACK OVERFLOW has caused this session to be halted. Change the STACKS seeting in your CONFIG.SYS file and then try again" The user installed Visual studio/foxproapplication. That's when the PC started to have problems. It also loses the display settings or it hangs on a dark screen and doesn't boot into windows. The PC is on network, I renamed the config.sys file, that didn't do it. I have tried to removing the video card drivers but that didn't help. The PC boots up into windows after a 2n restart but the display settings are not the same....help!!!

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by stillatit

Per the installation manual, found at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/devprods/vs6/vfoxpro/foxhelp/vfpstartpage.htm
(no spaces in the url)

==begin quote==
If you can?t run Visual FoxPro and don?t see error messages telling you what?s wrong, the problem might lie in your computer?s ROM BIOS or the video driver you?re using. If you?re using an extended keyboard, be sure that the ROM BIOS is compatible with it. In addition, be sure that you?re using a standard VGAor Super VGA Windows video driver.

If you get a ?stack overflow? error message, your video driver is out of date or not designed for your video card. To correct this problem, update the video driver.
==end quote==

Other possibilities:

Foxpro handles memory and files in interesting ways. In older versions you needed a
stacks=
statement in your config.sys file. The numbers you put in the statement come from the Foxpro manual for the version you were using. You also needed to have a
files=
statement in config.sys, telling the system how many files will be opened at the same time (maximum). This was very important, since Foxpro opens a file for each database and for each index or compound index file, and for lots of temporary use files.

Good luck.

by guidos

Did you change the stacks setting in your config.sys? You could add something like: STACKS=9,512 Also, in Windows\System.ini under the [386enh]section, you can add this statement: Minsps=4 which equates to minimum spare stack pages... Then reboot and see if you still experience the problem.

:-)

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