Office 97 Access Freezes in Windows 2000

[Guest]

Since I upgraded to Windows 2000, my Access (Office 97) program freezes up
FREQUENTLY. I have no idea how to fix this. I downloaded SR2 and other
downloads for Office 97 that Microsoft suggested hoping it would solve it,
but it didn't. Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Allen Browne]

Does the whole computer freeze? Or just the Access applicaton?

For example, if you cannot get to the task list with Ctrl+Alt+Del, and
cannot turn the NumLock light off on your keyboard, the whole computer has
crashed. The most likely cause is inadequate cooling in the computer. Access
97 uses whatever CPU cycles are spare, so the CPU runs at close to 100% when
A97 is loaded. As a result, it will overheat a computer that has inadequate
cooling.

If it is only A97 that is freezing, search for any code that turns Echo off.
Unless the code explicitly turns echo back on again in all conditions
(preferably in the error recovery section), the application will appear to
be frozen.

If that is not the case either, and this happens with just one database, it
is possible the database is corrupted. For suggestions on how to rescue it,
see:
Recovering from Corruption
at:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-47.html

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.

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[Guest]

97 uses whatever CPU cycles are spare, so the CPU runs at close to 100%

A97 is loaded. As a result, it will overheat a computer that has

inadequate

On my Dell computer, this does not seem to be the case. When I start
A97, the fan spins up, but it goes back to resting when I am not actually
doing anything.

If I remember correctly, the fan speed drops back to idle when A97
goes into the idle loop, rather than waiting 10-30 seconds for the
A97 'utilisation' number to drop back.

(david)

 

[Allen Browne]

The suggestion came from experience.

I acutally built my own dev machine (P IV @ 2.8MHz) without any case fan
(just the CPU and power supply fans.) It worked fine with later versions of
Access, but constantly crashed when developing in A97 until I realized it
was overheating and added a case fan which fixed the problem.