schwartz@dinl.uucp (Michael Schwartz) (05/17/89)
I have been using / developing with Windows/286 happily (for the most part). I decided to increase my expanded memory in my AboveBoard 286 to 1 MB. Windows now crashes upon load of any application. All other applications which use expanded memory work just fine, and yes, I have run the TESTAB program 20 times on the chips. When launched with an initial program, I get the message Internal stack overflow System Halted Has anyone seen this kind of problem before? What should I look at to try to solve it? Thanks for any help you can give. Michael -- Michael Schwartz ncar!dinl!schwartz MSchwartz@Dockmaster.ARPA
andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel) (05/18/89)
In article <1019@dinl.mmc.UUCP> schwartz@dinl.uucp (Michael Schwartz) writes: >I decided to increase my expanded memory in my AboveBoard 286 to >1 MB. Windows now crashes upon load of any application. When I got this, I eventually solved the problem by reinstalling Windows over the existing copy. I did take the precaution of backing up the pif files I had altered, and all back copies of win.ini; other than that, the reinstallation didn't trash anything, and it did solve the crash problem. Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664 "wake now! Discover that you are the song that the morning brings..." ______________________________________________________________________________ UUCP : {hplabs|nosc|hpfcla|ucsd}!hp-sdd!andrea Internet : andrea%hp-sdd@hp-sde.sde.hp.com (or @nosc.mil, @ucsd.edu) CSNET : andrea%hp-sdd@hplabs.csnet USnail : 16399 W. Bernardo Drive, San Diego CA 92127-1899 USA
ralphl@microsoft.UUCP (Ralph Lipe 2/2117) (05/24/89)
In article <1019@dinl.mmc.UUCP> schwartz@dinl.uucp (Michael Schwartz) writes: >I have been using / developing with Windows/286 happily (for the most >part). I decided to increase my expanded memory in my AboveBoard 286 to >1 MB. Windows now crashes upon load of any application. All other >applications which use expanded memory work just fine, and yes, I have >run the TESTAB program 20 times on the chips. When launched with an >initial program, I get the message > Internal stack overflow > System Halted This is due to DOS running out of internal stacks. You should try including the line "STACKS=0,0" in your config.sys file for DOS 3.21 and above. This will turn off the DOS stack switching code. If that dosen't work or you use DOS 3.1 you will need to create more stacks. Try "STACKS=15,256". This is documented in the MS DOS 4.01 manual on page 296. I'm not sure why an expanded memory card would cause a stack overflow but that message is printed when DOS runs out of interrupt stacks. ...This is my opinion. This is not official Microsoft support information.