Re: Personal ORACLE for Win31 gives 'stack overflow' -- advice sought

In article <4rko4v$b63_at_panix3.panix.com>, serge_at_panix.com (umask 077) writes:
> Hi there!
>
> I have installed Personal ORACLE v7.1 for Windows 3.1 from ORACLE's CD on a
> Pentium/60 machine with 16M of memory but any component I'm trying to use
> (i.e. Database Manager, User Manager, SQL*PLus etc.) eventually produces
> a 'Stack Overflow' and hangs. It seems that at the same moment the database
> goes down, or at least becomes unavailable. Everything was installed through
> Uninstaller v3, including WIN32. In one of the readme files they mentioned
> that Microsoft Sound 2.0 was incompatible with ORACLE and was likely to cause
> stack overflow, so I disabled system sounds in Control Panel, unistalled
> everything, reset the swap file, ran scandisk and defrag, recreated a bigger
> swapfile and reinstalled ORACLE but the result was still the same.
> I must admit I'm not a big Windows pro (I'm a Unix guy) and since readme
> files and release notes don't have anything on troubleshooting any advice or
> suggestions will be highly appreciated.

I had that problem last summer with Gateway Pentiums with STB video cards. Something about the STB meta-drivers is incompatible with PO7. Last I heard each company was blaming the other... AFAIK the only workaround (besides getting a new video card) is to disable the meta-drivers and use the windows VGA driver.

HTH                         david