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Offline capt. apathy

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internal stack overflow
« on: September 24, 2001, 10:04:00 PM »
i just formated and reloaded my pc (virus).
now when I restart or shut down it hangs on shut down and i get a msg, "internal stack overflow- change stacks settings in config.sys" if i hit the reste button it continues then seems to be fine till i shut it down agaain

so what do i change, how do i change it, and what do i change it to?

help.
 apathy

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internal stack overflow
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2001, 12:34:00 PM »
Ouch, that's not good.  There is no way you should attempt to alter the stack settings manually.  Perhaps try updating your virus scanner and running it again.  Your config.sys file is probably corrupted.

For your knowledge the "stack" does pretty much what it sounds like.  A program has the ability to "push" and "pop" data onto and off of the stack.  You can think of it kind of like a pez candy dispenser.  You can put a candy into it and get it out later, but the only catch is that if you put another candy in after the first one, you have to remove the second one before you get to the first.  :D  In electronics terms this would be called a "shift register" or a FILO buffer.

Normally the operation of the stack is controlled totally by windows itself and if you are getting this error you have a potentially serious problem that may likely require a clean install of windows to fix.   :(

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internal stack overflow
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2001, 08:58:00 PM »
thanks for the info.  
i just did a clean install (had a virus sunday).
i was running win 98 se before the format, but i only had the win98 1st edition disk.
before i got the 98se installed i had a problem with it hanging on shutdown (hung on exit screen instead of black screen w/error, but otherwise simular problem).
that problem showed up when i innstalled dx8.
 maybe i should go ahead and pay for the SE upgrade.