Re: Oracle Forms and NT4.0

Hi charles,

we once had a very odd problem using developer 6 (not 6i): It was that on an hp - computer with nt4 and developer 6 and some chrystal sound chip on board where forms and reports hangs when started. One extra symptom of the failure was, that you couldn't edit textfiles with notepad or wordpad anymore: moving to the last line freezes the editor. Also shutdown wasn't possible after that anymore :-(.

In the end we found that the cause were the sound - drivers that came with the pc! (Don't know why it really was that way, but disabling the sound-card enabled reports and forms). Sound-drivers without Developer worked fine / Developer w/o sound the same. (Have no bug-no, TAR was PMS 825638 / Oracle Germany, End of 1999)

Can it be you ran in a similar problem? Try deaktivating sound-card or other not needed hardware and try to run forms again - maybe it helps.

hth Stephan

charles peterson schrieb:

> Carsten and Anand,
>
> Forgive me for not mentioning the following information in my first post.
> I hope this will clear up some confusion.
>
> I am running an oracle forms application on NT4.0 SP6, 550Mhz, 128MB RAM.
> (3 different machines) The application runs fine on Win95, 98 and 2000
> professional. The database is 8i and it is on a Win2000 server. The
> application requires that the forms and reports runtime environments be
> installed. That is it. I don't need any other Designer files on Win95, 98
> or 2000. (except for the tnsnames.ora, etc.)
>
> This is a client-server application so we are not using any of the web
> stuff. I can connect to the database every time using query builder or SQL
> plus (when installed, not required.)
>
> I finally got the application to work on NT last night but I don't know
> how. I was installing and unstalling oracle designer modules until it
> worked. What I want to know is why it works so much differently on NT4.0
> WKS. SP6 than 95,98 or 2000 professional.
>
> I have dropped the java hypothesis (thanks Anand) in favor of a memory
> allocation hypothesis. The application, once working, will not work after
> running a memory intensive task. That is: printing a large graphic file,
> and closing that app, then trying to re-open the forms app.
>
> Another reason it is not the sqlnet config- the app does not even get to
> the point of asking which database it wants to access before it hangs.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>
> Charles
> Carsten <carpet_at_wanadoo.es> wrote in article
> <000601c0faf8$7c216290$e799a8c0_at_dominio1>...
> Dear Anand,
>
> I am running 8.1.6 and 6i on the same NT4 machine without problems.
> However, I never heard about MS-Loopback adapter.
> Could you tell where to get information about it?
>
> Carsten
>
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Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 23:57:26 CEST