Those of you who have read my "bug ... maybe" in the bugs forum will know what my problem is. After working day and night on this computer, the problem still exists. I thought I'd repeat it in the correct forum is the hopes that someone will know what to do.
From the beginning:
I'm off for Winter break, which means I have to use a different computer than I normally use. I've used this computer for AH for a very long time (since .36) without any problems. It is a Cel 366, on SE440Bx-2 MB, 64 mb ram, ms sidewinder P pro USB, dx 7a, ATI Xpert 128 video card using driver .6063. This Thursday I logged on like normal, but things were wrong. I could not get combat trim to stay off. In addition views would not stay saved. Eventually all my sounds would cut out, except the engine sound. If I ended this sortie and tried to respawn my gunsight would be white, auto takeoff and combat trim would be back on, convergences all reset to 250, views back to default. No matter what I can't get any settings to save. If I click the button for "auto takeoff" for example, it will turn off. I'll then click ok, but if I reenter that menu it will be selected again. The same thing goes for RW settings too. All joystick mapping stays the way I had it set.
While posting this bug (I thought it was a bug at least) Internet Explorer 5.01sp1 gave an page fault exception error at module 0187:7881c4ce in Wsock32.dll. I asked others using this computer if errors like this had been occuring frequently and they said it seemed like it. Later on posting on the same thread I got another error in module 0187:7881c4ce in kernel32.dll and a stack dump. (Does anybody know what 0187:7881c4ce means?)
Here's what I've done to try to fix this problem: COMPLETE reinstall of AH (deleted settings directory), standard scandisk 2 times (no errors), Norton anti-virus scan with new definition files (no viruses found), through scan disk (no errors found after 3 hours of scanning
it takes a long time to do this), I ran the repair utility for IE 5 (still got error). I then decided to try to install IE 5.5 sp1. The download was interupted 12.8 MB into it (after 3 hours of downloading
) with the error IE5WZD caused an invalid page fault in kernel32.dll at module 0187:7881c4ce. I looked in the Microsoft Knowledge base for a very long time and found this problem listed. It cited possible damage to the Microsoft VM (java virtual machine) as a possibility for this error. (IMO this makes good sense for the IE errors, as the errors only occur in programs that make use of TCP/IP connections.) I followed instructions that said to ren msjava.dll and msjava.old under windows\system and then reinstall the Virtual Machine. This I was able to do, and so far IE has not given an error message in 2 hours. (Fingers crossed.
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Unfortunately AH is still messed up. I tried to play AH a few minutes ago, but after getting to about 15k and seeing a C Hog diving at me from ultra stratosphere heights I went of AP and tried to evade. Immediately my plane went into a spin that was unrecoverable. I checked joystick properties and found the joystick had locked full right.
Just for curiousities sake I tried to enable RW and turn off autotakeoff etc and sure enough, they won't stay saved. Fearing the worst I tried to spawn an la5 and sure enough: Sounds all gone, gunsight white, auto takeoff and combat trim on, views back to default. When I hit quit the background was all white like the gunsight.
Unforutunately reformatting is kind of impossible right now for several reasons: All my driver disks are 60 miles away and I can't get to them until 1-8-01. I also don't have a Windows 98 CD here either.
I need to find the magic cure for this problem, something has become corrupted that is effecting both IE5 and AH. I'm thinking of trying to reinstall TCP/IP and DUN (dial-up networking), but this is not an easy task and will leave the computer dead if I get an error during the process.
I'm hoping someone knows what 0187:7881c4ce module is. This will give me something to go on at least.
(On a side note I found squad art bmps called tmpwolf37.bmp for example in my windows\system folder???
It looks like any squad that I've flown against in the last week has there logo there. I'm wondering if AH is supposed to store stuff there, and if so, maybe some settings remained in there that kept the uninstall/reinstall from working? )
I'm not looking forward to the possiblity of NO Ah and the need to completely reinstall windows and 5 GB of data on this computer during my Winter Break.
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bloom25
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