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Newman - 29 Jun 2004 14:27 GMT

Upon cold boot I got a blue screen which said "Terminating
thread due to a stack overflow problem. A VxD, possibly
recently installed, has consumed too much stack space.
Increase the setting of 'MinSPs' in SYSTEM.INI or remove
recently installed VxD's. There are currently 5 SPs
allocated." <<Press any key to continue>> and when I did
that: Another blue screen which said "There are no spare
stack pages. It may be necessary to increase the setting
of 'MinSPs' in SYSTEM.INI to prevent possible stack
faults. There are currently 6 SPs allocated." I am a
computer illiterate. What do I do next?

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Mike M - 29 Jun 2004 14:44 GMT

You can increase the number of stack pages by adding the line:
MinSPs=8
to the [386Enh] section of the System.ini file and then restart your computer.
You can do this either using Notepad and editing system.ini directly or by
using MSConfig and going to the System.ini tab. The KB recommends increasing
the number of stack pages in increments of 4 so setting MinSPs=8 would seem to
be a good place to start.

See MS KB 149083 -"There Are No Spare Stack Pages"
(http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/149/0/83.asp).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com

> Upon cold boot I got a blue screen which said "Terminating
> thread due to a stack overflow problem. A VxD, possibly
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> faults. There are currently 6 SPs allocated." I am a
> computer illiterate. What do I do next?

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