Out of Memory Access 97 on Win XP Access 2003

[Joe Q]

I am sending a runtime version of Access 97 out to a
client and they are installing it to a Windows XP system
that has Access 2003 already installed. On some of their
machines it installs successfully and no problems. On
others it installs successfully, but as soon as they try
to run the application it issues an Out of Memory message
and shuts down. The machines only have 512 MB of RAM so it
is not the 1GB ram issue. I have tried the manual
registering of the DAO350.DLL file to no avail. Any
insight that anyone has on this would be greatly
appreciated!!!!

Joe

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

How much free space is there on whatever drive to which the TEMP environment
variable points? (or is it the TMP environment variable?)

 

[Brett Collings [429338]]

What Runtime deployment tools did you use. I'm afraid the MS ones are
not very good and can seriously interfere with existing installations
of Access.

If all of your client machines have Access then you should just be
sending out an MDE file of the FrontEnd, leaving the data MDB on a
shared server drive.

Having sent out a Runtime to these troubled machines, I'm not quie
sure if you can uninstall the dll over-writes that the installation
has done.

Brett

I am sending a runtime version of Access 97 out to a
client and they are installing it to a Windows XP system
that has Access 2003 already installed. On some of their
machines it installs successfully and no problems. On
others it installs successfully, but as soon as they try
to run the application it issues an Out of Memory message
and shuts down. The machines only have 512 MB of RAM so it
is not the 1GB ram issue. I have tried the manual
registering of the DAO350.DLL file to no avail. Any
insight that anyone has on this would be greatly
appreciated!!!!

Joe

Cheers,
Brett

 

[Joe Q]

The Temp and Tmp environment variables point to:

C:\Documents and Settings\userid\Local Settings\Temp

On a machine that issues the Out of Memory msg there is
29.6 GB free. On another machine that the Access 97
runtime application is working just fine on there is 26.1
GB free???

My original distribution was created using MS installation
tools, I have redone the install CD with Installshield and
they have tried that as well. It works just fine on some
of the machines, but on the machines that are having this
problem get a message on startup stating
"Couldn't find file 'X(weird character appears next)'.
This file is required for startup and the system shuts
down. Again this install CD works fine on other machines.
So MS tools to create the CD or third party does not
matter.

Again thank you for any insight to this problem...

 

[Joe Q]

Ok, I found the solution to this problem:

1. Update MSACCESS.EXE to SR2

2. Apply jet35sp3.exe to update the jet engine

runtime version of Access 97 runs normally after above updates

Thank you to all who post in this news group....

Joe Quinn

 

[Martin]

Joe,

You mention the 1GB issue. I have a new laptop with 1GB
RAM and Access '97 doesn't start as it thinks there is
not enough memory. I assume I will never get this
working?

Thanks,

Martin

 

[Rick Brandt]

Joe,

You mention the 1GB issue. I have a new laptop with 1GB
RAM and Access '97 doesn't start as it thinks there is
not enough memory. I assume I will never get this
working?

It's a known bug with a known fix. Search on Microsoft's site for it.