Help: General Protection Fault caused by Mathematica for Windows
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- Subject: [mg1111] Help: General Protection Fault caused by Mathematica for Windows
- From: ddonne at expert.cc.purdue.edu (David Donne)
- Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 00:31:41 -0400
- Organization: Purdue University
Expert Readers of This Group:
Please help me with the following General Protection Fault problem.
I always get General Protection Fault message when I run Mathematica
on my 486DX2/50 on some occasions. Specifically, I tried to expand
(1+x)^150 in Mathematica and I got the following message:
First message: Application Error: Math caused a general protection
fault in module 256_1024.drv at 0002:48FA. Close or
Ignore?
When I tried to close, a second message came up:
Second message: EMM386 has deteced error #6 in an application at
memory address 00B8:0BA0. ...EMM386 has haulted your
computer.
Note: When I expanded (1+x)^140, there was no problem. My computer is
a Packard Bell 486DX2/50 with 8MB of RAM. The Windows swapfile
is 20MB (Windows recommends ~24MB). The video driver is Cirrus
Logic GL5424 Version 1.43. Windows version is Windows for
Workgroups v3.11. Math version if Math v2.2.1 for Windows.
This is the only GPF I got for all the programs on my computer.
At the time it happened, Mathematica reported there was ~6000K
memory available.
The relavent lines in CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=C:\windows\himem.sys
DEVICE=C:\windows\emm386.sys ram
What could be the problem? How to fix it? Any info would be greatly
appreciated.
David Donne
Purdue University
ddonne at expert.cc.purdue.edu