"Bus error"--means what?
Cory S. Rau
conn...@tiac.net (Paul Connelly) wrote:
>Every once in a while i get a system bomb with the error message
>"bus error". Does anyone have any idea what this means? Is it
>a hardware error specific to some piece of hardware?
>
>- thanks, paul
>
>--
>Ut ibi arduum cursum angelorum perficiam
Almost always it's a software error related to memory. To put it simply,
it is an indication that data is not moving into RAM as it should.
Normally, it's an incompatibility which has absolutely nothing to do with
the end user...but the programmer or the combination of machine model and
version number of the software.
You may want to allocate more RAM to the application via the Get Info
box. That sometimes helps. With 4D and a few other programs, I've also
found that it helps to make the minimum size and preferred size the
same...higher than the manufacturer's suggested size. Otherwise, your
application may open up in a block of RAM anywhere between minimum and
preferred depending upon the availability of RAM at the moment of its
launch.
Good luck.
--
Cory S. Rau
Systems Analyst
Stimpson Co., Inc.
stim...@i-2000.com
Opinions are not necessarily those of Stimpson
Paul Connelly
Bruce Patterson
>Every once in a while i get a system bomb with the error message
>"bus error". Does anyone have any idea what this means? Is it
>a hardware error specific to some piece of hardware?
>- thanks, paul
It means the same as any error message... "Something went wrong fix
it". If you consider every error message means that then you dont get
lead up the garden path by the error message actually meaning
anything. The bus is the bit all the card plug into but you would be
wrong to think that an error that says bus error is actually a
hardware fault (not that you did). Remember this if the computer
was clever enough to know exactly why the program crashed then it
would be clever enough to avoid it (:-). Yep "Something went wrong fix
it" a good way to read any error message and you just keep
reinstalling and tweaking until you dont get that message. (Start with
nortons)
Bruce