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Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems [message #26865 is a reply to message #26775]

Thu, 27 September 2001 09:24

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

Senior Member

I had serious issues with win98 and IDL when doing object stuff. Since I
made the switch to 2000 I have had only one problem with a beta video
driver. If it were a driver issue I would think that the problem would
occur when IDL accessed the driver. In my case with the video driver
whenever I would try to create an instance of IDLgrWindow IDL would crash.

From your post the errors seem random and I would agree with your thought
that this is a hardware issue. Bad RAM or poor CPU cooling. Since you have
a laptop you probably can't set your memory timings to a more conservative
setting or underclock your CPU from within the BIOS. Did you install extra
RAM and if so can you take it out? Maybe try to test the system stability
with another program (I know people use prime95 or SETI or whatever to do
this. I can't tell you if they are good tools for this sort of test.)

-Rick

"R.G.S." <rgs1967@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:KKGs7.87$Fb3.126304@news.uswest.net...
> anyone run into any problems running IDL 5.4
> on windows 2000?
>
> I just got a new laptop, and IDL crashes with a
> "this program has caused an error and will be terminated"
> message.
>
> My guess would be that it is a driver problem, maybe video driver.
> I haven't yet isolatd the IDL code that is causing the problem, but
> it seems to bounce around.
> In fact, one message was a "string variable required in function" message
> when there certainly was no string variable required. It was a function
> that had an array of double passed to it (which I wrote). Hitting continue
> caused the program to resume nicely (for a while).
> I also got an "unknown instruction at (6890)" error, which is
> totally bizarre.
> It almost makes me think the CPU is getting to hot or some other
> hardware problerm.
>
> Anyways, I was just wondering if there were known incompatibilites
> with IDL and win2000.
>
> Cheers,
> bob
>
>
>

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		IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: R.G.S. on Thu, 27 September 2001 07:30
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems (solution) By: R.G.S. on Fri, 28 September 2001 12:39
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: R.G.S. on Thu, 27 September 2001 11:12
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: R.G.S. on Thu, 27 September 2001 11:10
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 September 2001 10:28
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 September 2001 10:25
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 September 2001 10:24
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: R.G.S. on Thu, 27 September 2001 09:49
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: Rick Towler on Thu, 27 September 2001 09:24
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 27 September 2001 09:21
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: R.Bauer on Thu, 27 September 2001 08:56
		Re: IDL 5.4 and win2000 problems By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 27 September 2001 08:37

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