termanating thread due to stack overflow...

[Guest_imported]

I have a P1 166mhz 160 ram Win 98. I installed a network card and want to install a sound card also. After installing the network card, Linksys 10/100 Lan card, and rebooting, an error message "termanating thread due to a stack overflow problem. A vxd, possibley recently installed has consumed too much stack space. Increase the settings of "MinSPs" in system.ini or remove the recently installed Vxd's. There are currentlt 3 SPs allocated.te I also got the same mesagge when I installed the sound card ealier and removed it.

I know enough that I do not even open the registry. Is there an easy fix or do I need to take it to someone? I hope this is the rght forum.

Thank you

 

[kraut]

Take it one step at a time. Remove the sound card and network card (always power down and unplug the computer before you open it ... trust me ).
The following pertains only to plug&pray cards. If thy're not, you will have to research IRQ's, addresses and make sure there aren't conflicts.
Start the computer and go into Safe Mode. (keep pressing F8 just before it says it's loading Windows) Follow the prompts to get to the Desktop.
Go into the Control Panel | System and remove all references to the sound card and Network card.
Reboot then shutdown. In other words you are starting fresh.
Plug in one of the cards, restart and let Windows discover it.
Configure the card (you may have to supply the driver disk) and whatever else you want to do.
Shutdown and restart. Does the card work? If not, I guess you will reply to this post!
If so ......
Shutdown and plug in the other card.
Restart Windows and let it discover the last card. Again, you may need to get the drivers.

If the Sound card or Network card aren't plug and play, and the IRQ's arent set correctly you will get conflicts.

Let the Schwartz be with You,

Rick Moranis

 

[Guest_imported]

thanks for your help. Supposedly the network card and sound card are P&P, and I also checked the BIOS and PnP was enabled. I took out and removed the sound and network cards in safe mode. I tried all 3 slots remaining individually (4 white that are the size of the network and modem card). Every time windows recogniozed the network card and I configured it, but then the error message would appear. The only card that was still plugged in while I tried the other slots was the video card. The sound card plugs into longer slots and there are 2 of them. I do not know what version DOS I have, could that be a culprit? The only way I can think of chcecking the version is either starting up in DOS or booting up in sfae mode DOS.

Thanks

 

[Guest_imported]

Update:

I tried again to reinstall the network card into a slot that the modem was in at one time. I have not received any error messages. I will wait to reinstall the sound card. I think I downlaoded the right driver, but I am going to get it just in case. I will reply to this again with another update, hopefully with an installed sound card.

Thanks

 

[Guest_imported]

I installed the sound card in a previously unused slot. Win detected it and then stopped. I could still move the mouse pointer, but the new hardware found window was still present. I then shut off and restarted and started ok. No new hardware found, in device manager the card was present with an exclamaion yellow mark. I removed it and started again and the same thing happened. Then I removed and changed the slots. I rebooted, it detected and froze just like the last time. Can I try to load it by "updating the drivers"? In device manager it says win will never try to start this device again. when I got this system, the sound card was working in this slot. Am I asking to much for a P1 166 using Win 98?

Thanks