General Protection Fault Problem

[Mlope]

I've got a program (a bird watching program) that crashes when I start it. It says that there is a GPF in the file "DA02516.dll" & it will not continue. I tried restarting the computer, then I reloaded the program, then I removed it and reinstalled it,& I still get the GPF. When I tried to delete the file, windows said it was in use and would not allow it's removal. I assume that this file is in a cab file in win 98 or in my application software & that I need to replace it. My question is, how can I extract this file from a CAB file, and is this the proper way to solve my problem??
thanks for your help, Mike

[SoopaStar]

Maybe you should see if there is an update to that program. Sounds like its a 16 bit program. A GPF was caused by an application trying to access a protected memory area or other hardware device (maybe a CPU cycle). That DLL sounds like its a 16 bit by the file name.
I am in win2000 and do not have that program. Try searching your hard drive for that file name and make sure you don't have more than one copy of it. If you do, then right click on the file choose properties and see which one is newer. Delete or rename the older one and see if that may resolve the issue.
Paul

[BFlurie]

If it is a 16bit .dll, then this won't work -- but it can't hurt. Find the "path" of this file, then go to Start/ Run & type this:

Regsvr32.exe "path\dao2516.dll"

where the path is, for ex. c:\windows\system
Include the quote marks in case the path has long foldernames.

Also try this:

Regsvr32.exe "c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\dao3032.dll"


[This message has been edited by BFlurie (edited 07-10-2000).]

[socalgal]

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