Internal Stack Overflow error message

[FreeIsFun]

I am building a computer using the K7t pro2a motherboard and when I try to install the Video card I get "internal stack overflow has causthed this system to halt change the stack settings in your config.sys. I am using the ati expert 2000 video card. I'm building this for mom and can't afford one of those nvidea cards :-( anyway can anyone help with this

Thanks
Beth

 

[Slikkster]

Let's be clear here. So Windows is already installed? What video card was in there to begin with? Do you have a "Stacks=..." line in your config.sys file?

 

[FreeIsFun]

This was a fresh installation of windows so no prior video cards. There is no stacks line in the config.sys. I managed to get the video card installed (updated via drivers) but now it is real slow on bootup.

thank you for answering

 

[FreeIsFun]

this is what is in the config.sys file
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\setver.exe


I have a computer with same motherboard and chip and this is what I read in the config.sys fileDEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE

 

[Slikkster]

You can get rid of that device=setver.exe Windows has a file called "io.sys" that incorporates setver.exe in it already, so you're duplicating your efforts. I'd try to go without anything in config.sys and see how it goes.

 

[FreeIsFun]

Thanks Slikkster I'll edit it and see if I am still running without it. I really don't understand config.sys, I've built many computers and didnt have to full around with it.

I do have another question if you don't mind or anyone else who could answer
fileDEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE


What do these 2 lines mean and is it be benificial to have them in config.sys

 

[FreeIsFun]

Slikkster I edited that line out and I'm still here. Thanks I wonder, I was having a very slow post before editing and now it's fast. Would this have had anything to do with it?

thanks again

 

[Slikkster]

It could have had something to do with it, because as I mentioned you were duplicating a file that was already being loaded elsewhere.

The other files you mentioned provide "upper memory" access, particularly for old dos programs. Again, however, they're rarely needed anymore and Windows itself provides for the loading of one of those files...you just don't see it.

If you want, go into the other pc's config.sys and put an "REM" with a space in front of those lines, so it would read:


REM Device=c:\windows\himem.sys
REM Device=c:\windows\emm386.exe

"REM" is short for "Remark" which tells Windows to bypass those files; not to pay any attention to those lines. It's useful to use REM because this way you can always go back and remove the REM and restore the line if you need it so you don't have to remember how it was written.

This article will tell you more, but keep in mind that for the most part, these files are no longer needed unless you have some old dos program that requires them at startup.

Smart Computing explanation of config.sys files

 

[FreeIsFun]

Thanks Slikkster

I always wanted to understand this.

Beth