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Re: Why did IDL just start crashing [message #65366 is a reply to message #65365]

Wed, 25 February 2009 15:28

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Dave L writes:

> I'm running IDL 7.0 on Windows XP with 3gb ram. I've had no problems
> for the 5 months I've been using IDL on this computer, then today
> idlde.exe crashed while I was just writing some code. Now it just
> starts up and crashes immediately. I've reinstalled IDL and it's
> still crashing.
>
> Anyone have some idea of what's happening?

I would guess whatever it is it probably has
little or nothing to do with IDL, which would
explain why a re-install of IDL wouldn't help.

Do you have automatic updates turned on for this
machine? Have you updated a JAVA distribution,
perhaps automatically? Did you update a graphics
driver? Have you installed any other software in
the past few days? Do you have a firewall installed
on this machine to protect against viruses? Does
other software (MatLab, R, etc.) still work?

Exactly when does IDL crash? Before it even gets
started? When you open a graphics window? You
have given us too few clues.

If it helps at all, I've been running IDL 7 on a Windows XP
machine with 4GByte of RAM for well over three years
with not a single problem. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. This isn't a student machine filled with pirated movies,
is it?

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Why did IDL just start crashing By: R.Bauer on Fri, 27 February 2009 00:32
		Re: Why did IDL just start crashing By: David Fanning on Thu, 26 February 2009 11:20
		Re: Why did IDL just start crashing By: Dave L on Thu, 26 February 2009 11:05
		Re: Why did IDL just start crashing By: David Fanning on Thu, 26 February 2009 07:11
		Re: Why did IDL just start crashing By: Conor on Thu, 26 February 2009 07:01
		Re: Why did IDL just start crashing By: R.Bauer on Thu, 26 February 2009 00:55
		Re: Why did IDL just start crashing By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 February 2009 17:44
		Re: Why did IDL just start crashing By: Dave L on Wed, 25 February 2009 16:18
		Re: Why did IDL just start crashing By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 February 2009 15:28
		Re: Why did IDL just start crashing By: ianssullivan on Thu, 29 January 2015 12:17

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