Stack Pages?

Phil

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Jan 14, 2004, 12:45:41 AM1/14/04

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I got a the following blue screen message on reboot after my system froze:

"There are no spare stack pages. It may be necessary to increase the setting
of 'minSps' in SYSTEM.INI to prevent possible stack faults. There are
currently 4 SPs allocated"

I went into SYSTEM.INI and couldn't find anything I'd want to play with.
Anyone know what this means and how I can comply?

Thanks

Phil

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Brian H¹©

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Jan 14, 2004, 1:15:07 AM1/14/04

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Phil said:

http://www.djdenham.com/MinSPs_text.htm

Unk

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Jan 14, 2004, 1:51:54 AM1/14/04

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Try adding this line to your System.ini file:
Scroll down to the [386Enh] Section and One space down. Hit the
Enter Key one time to create a blank line just below the [386Enh].
In the blank line, type the following:

; Increases default stack pages from 2 to 6
MinSPs=6

The default is 2. If required, increase increments by 2
The * ; * works the same as * REM * works in AutoExec.Bat

Click Edit, Save, Edit, exit. Shut down and restart for the
changes to take effect.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q149083

Phil

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Jan 14, 2004, 10:16:21 AM1/14/04

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why?

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Jan 14, 2004, 12:15:44 PM1/14/04

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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:16:21 -0800, Phil wrote:

>I got a the following blue screen message on reboot after my system froze:
>
>"There are no spare stack pages. It may be necessary to increase the setting
>of 'minSps' in SYSTEM.INI to prevent possible stack faults. There are
>currently 4 SPs allocated"
>

<snip>

A popular question, asked a few times the last week or so.

Oh right you were one of those, see in the answers you already had to
your post of 9 hours ago

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=4lp900t8mn8csbgfi660obsv4leedi85jf%404ax.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26start%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3D24hoursupport.helpdesk%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3D4lp900t8mn8csbgfi660obsv4leedi85jf%25404ax.com
or shorter http://makeashorterlink.com/?T5F936017

Previous to that it was last week. See replies to post
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=4u0mvvggid95r2l7ddmv0o4rc97sr4n4j1%404ax.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3D4u0mvvggid95r2l7ddmv0o4rc97sr4n4j1%25404ax.com
or shorter http://makeashorterlink.com/?F24A11017

Me

Richard

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Jan 14, 2004, 1:28:23 PM1/14/04

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"Phil" <ph...@pacificnospamcoast.net> wrote in message
news:100ana2...@corp.supernews.com...

You have to add a new line as described by Unk. It will then look something
like this:

[386Enh]
MinSPs=4
device=*COMBUFF
device=TURBOVCD.VXD
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
mouse=*vmouse

Ralph Wade Phillips

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Jan 14, 2004, 9:05:10 PM1/14/04

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Howdy!

"Alexander Rogge" <a_r...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4004de0c$0$6761$61fe...@news.rcn.com...

> > I got a the following blue screen message on reboot after my system
froze:
> >
> > "There are no spare stack pages. It may be necessary to increase the
setting
> > of 'minSps' in SYSTEM.INI to prevent possible stack faults. There are
> > currently 4 SPs allocated"
>

> That's a Windows v.3.1 error message.

And Win95, 98, and ME.

>
> > I went into SYSTEM.INI and couldn't find anything I'd want to play with.
> > Anyone know what this means and how I can comply?
>

> It probably means that there is not enough memory to load a driver. You
> can increase the "MinSPs" value in the "386Enh" section of the
> SYSTEM.INI file.

Or, for the OP, add a line under [386Enh] in SYSTEM.INI that says

MinSPs=8

RwP