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- Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:48 pm
- Forum: General Questions and Discussion
- Topic: PC hangs when running reports on XP
- Replies: 12
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2 XP machines work with 512MB, 2 XP machines don't
To test that theory, I just installed PC8 onto my wife's XP Pro/SP2 desktop with 512MB here at home; as with the other XP desktop with 512MB, it works correctly. However, at church, I have two identically configured XP Pro/SP2 machines, also equipped with 512MB, which hang on big print jobs. The dif...
- Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:33 pm
- Forum: General Questions and Discussion
- Topic: PC hangs when running reports on XP
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8947
additional data points around operating systems
I just now installed a backup of the PC8 directory onto my servers here at home, ran NetSetup on my wife's Win2K laptop, and ran the Contribution Statements report that crashed two XP Pro/SP2 machines at church in identically the same way. Worked like a champ under Win2K Pro/SP4. One of the previous...
- Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:58 pm
- Forum: General Questions and Discussion
- Topic: PC hangs when running reports on XP
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8947
no error msgs -- just the sounds of silence
Neil -- Nope, if there were error messages, that'd help us run down the problem. Far too easy. ;) Kidding aside, when we try to print the contribution statements or other similar lengthy reports, the screen proof will come up, you can advance a few pages, then it just hangs. Similarly, if you print ...
- Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:20 am
- Forum: General Questions and Discussion
- Topic: PC hangs when running reports on XP
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8947
PC8 print crashes definitely localized to XP
I'm seeing the same effect as prior posters -- works fine on our network server (NT Server/SP6a), and previously worked under XP/SP2, but printing of large reports no longer works. I'm guessing one of the recent patches/hotfixes to Windows breaks something in PowerChurch, as we only began observing ...