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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: Anonymous on June 28, 2002, 11:17:32 PM

Title: stack overflow
Post by: Anonymous on June 28, 2002, 11:17:32 PM

I have a Toshiba laptop computer.  It has been working okay but now a message came up saying \" an internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted.  Change the stack setting in your config.sys file, and then try again.\"  The problem is nothing happens when I hit control, alt, delete or turn the computer  off  and try booting up with the boot disk,  or try anything else the computer remains stalled. When I restart the computer the same message comes up and just stays there.  Any help would be appreciated. I can\'t change any settings because the computer remains stalled.

Title: stack overflow
Post by: rdc on July 01, 2002, 05:58:26 AM

Change the number of stacks in your config.sys to 64,512 .
stacks=64,512
see also :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;Q82318 (http://\"http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q82318\")
and q145799 .
If your computer is halted ,put the setupdisk in A and shutdown the computers (power off) and restart .
You should at least mention your operating system .

Title: stack overflow
Post by: rdc on July 01, 2002, 06:09:19 AM

First look if there is a line  in your config.sys thats says :
stacks= ..... if there isn\'t first try with
stacks=9
Depends on the amount of memory on your computer . If it still gets halted augment  by 3 each time untill it\' no longer halted and the put three  more to get a small margin 64 is the maximum amount of stacks .