Reports Builder 6i Failing to start on Win2k Pro

Well, I don't see anything about this anywhere, but..........

I have a STANDALONE NT machine running 8.1.7, Designer 6, Forms and Reports 6i with (pick your favorit patch - none, 3a, 5a)..... Machine is 950 MHz, 256 MB of memory, 58 G of disk...

When I run forms it WORKS FINE. Designer works FINE (or at least as well as ever)......

Running the report builder gets the splash screen for a couple seconds followed by the error RWBLD60.exe has generated errors and will be closed. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created.

Drwatson comes up, and it APPEARS that the only error log is in Dr Watson (which is appalling to begin with, but that's a different complaint).......

In any case, all Dr Watson shows is an access violation.

I've DEINSTALLED everything and reinstalled all of developer. Same result.

I went back to an old VERSION and installed 6.0 of developer. Same result.

I created a SEPARATE directory tree and installed developer 6i SEPARATELY from Designer. SAME RESULT.

I've had no patch, installed 3a, installed 5a. SAME RESULT.

I've created a TAR but I figure that's pointless, since I figure they'll blame Win2k...

BTW: This SAME machine, with THE SAME standalone configuration has been running developer for a couple years, prior to the replacement of NT 4.0 with 2K NT... But according to "everybody" 2k is "MUCH more stable and works PERFECTLY with Developer 6i" so that cannot be the problem.....

I need SOME kind of idea for getting this thing to work. Received on Sat Jun 09 2001 - 17:26:19 CDT