Forum Home
Press F1
Thread ID: 8689	2001-04-11 23:19:00	Defrag & Scandisk.	Guest (0)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
11202	2001-04-11 23:19:00	Seem to have a recent problem with Defrag & Scandisk. Running a Pentium 200 with 128Mb RAM and Windows 98SE. I can Scandisk in Dos mode, but in Windows both Scandisk and Defrag lock up straight away and then a error message appears- 'Terminating thread due to a stack overflow problem. Vxd has consumed too much stack space. Increase the setting of 'MinSP's in system.ini or remove recently installed Vxds.' etc The first thing I did was to look in system.ini but could not see any reference to MinSp's - is this a typical Windows vague reference? - a bit like 'your cars broke, and to fix it look under the bonnet'. I then ran the scanreg /opt as detailed on page 105 of the April issue on the 'maybe it will fix it' assumption - no change. I have disabled NAV anywhere I can find it - still no change. I have run 'msconfig' and disabled practically everything - nothing. I'm sure its something simple, but What? Would really appreciate your help / can you point me in the right direction. Need to defrag cause the kids have been scanning photos all over and the hard drive is / was getting full. Windows still seems to run OK except for Defrag & Scandisk locking up. Thanks	Guest (0)
11203	2001-04-11 23:46:00	It sounds like you have some flaky device drivers. Your computer has run out of spare stack pages. To overcome this edit the system.ini file with a text editor like Notepad. Under the heading [386enh] add the line: MinSPs=4 If you still get problems increase the number, try 6, 8, or 10,ie multiples of 2. The default value is 2, thats why it doesnt appear normally in the system.ini file.	Guest (0)
1