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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Blue Screen of Death

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Rpg Cyco
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2002 02:47
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Sometimes, not everytime I start up DB Pro, I get a error saying 'editor has caused a error in user.exe' then I get the hated Blue screen of death! I press entered and it has one of those weird white boxes with grey writing, saying 'editor has caused a error in user.exe' I click close and it comes up with the Blue screen of death again! So I eventually just reset from the Blue screen of death with CTRL+ALT+DEL Its happened twice now, and both times i've been connected to the net. I'm scared to run DB Pro now! :o

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Dazzag
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2002 03:22
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Hmmm... in XP?

Think I might give it till patch 2 until I install it. Have had it downstairs in the box (uninstalled) for about 3 weeks, and interestingly I haven't been too bothered to install it yet... BSOD.... damn, and just when my system is pretty stable...

Cheers

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The One Ring
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2002 04:32
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Actually, Rpg Cyco appears to be running WinME, not XP... (I shiver because I did some WinME support... ohhhh....)

An SIS 630 eh? I had an SIS card... I wasn't too happy with its performance... have you clean booted your machine yet?
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Zero
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2002 16:56
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Hmm.. I haven't seen the blue screen of death for a while.. two times since I updated to winXP.. In Win98SE a couple of times in every week.

God, I love XP!

The evil plan is now even closer!
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2002 23:34
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To be honest I'd like to know what "user.exe" is - because it's certainly not part of DBPro!

I thought it might be an XP thing but he's running ME, so does anyone know if it's a part of the ME system or something else he might have installed that's running? It's certainly not present on my Win2K box.

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Rich

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Zep
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2002 00:46
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USER.EXE is located in the Windows\SYSTEM directory and is not an editable file. (Or User32.exe for other OS versions)

It is located in the Win98_42.cab file.

Many errors can result that reference the User.exe file.

In general User.exe errors can be blamed to video related problems. In some cases its due to drivers not being up to date. Other times it is caused from having a video mode of more than 256 colors. If you get a lot of user.exe errors try changing the video mode for number of colors to 256 or some other value. The 32-bit mode or true-color mode can cause this problem.


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The One Ring
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2002 01:07
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USER.EXE is in part responsible for user interface rendering. It works hand-in-hand with the GDI DLLs and COMCTRL32.DLL for display stuff... (if I remember correctly).

Zep is correct. Make sure Vid drivers are up to date. Also go to the device manager and turn down the Video hardware acceleration. When all else fails, clean boot my friend.

Good luck...
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Newbi2basic
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2002 01:24
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I get that and cannot get out of it and its only when i am running DBpro...

Sometimes a iget a WARNING saying system resources are running slow

"When all is lost and you have nothing to lose. Thats the time to win stuff back..." Newbi2basic 23:33 26th august 2002
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Pheeel
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2002 01:51
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Most Blue Screen issues are due to driver issues and from the descriptions it sounds like it's the video card
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Rpg Cyco
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2002 02:52
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I have the latest drivers. I'll just wait, gonna be installing Win 2k soon

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Milamber
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Posted: 4th Oct 2002 09:01
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Good. Fom all I've heard, WinME is just a less stable versin of Win98SE. Apparently, if you right click on My Computer, then select properties, it even tells you it's 98SE. I installed it once for about a week, but then it killed itself.

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Rpg Cyco
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Posted: 4th Oct 2002 09:16
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LOL, mine says it Windows Millenium Edition, fancy nane for a lump of crap, huh? lol

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