Hi,
I am running the full OEM version of WinXP Pro SP2. Installation of SAS/LE was faultless, it ran through the Requirements Wizard and continued to the full installation without a hiccup.
I believe that the machine I have meets the hardware requirements.
The problem occurs whether I run SAS/LE with EG4.1 or simply the sas.exe (Display Manager style). SAS works just fine, it just appears that if I have run SAS/LE at all in a Windows XP session (ie since the last cold start), the Windows session locks up with the only way out being a visit to Mr. Power Switch. There are no events in the Windows Event Viewer that indicate any recognition of this locking up event (ie no warnings of impending doom a few minutes out from the lock up.). I definitely do not need to be actually using SAS when the lock up occurs, but from my bench tests, any WinXP sessions that have had no SAS/LE session started since cold start continue without problem for days and days. As soon as I have started SAS/LE in a Windows XP session, I can guarantee that the machine will completely lock-up within a few hours.
I run a very vanilla machine/OS (no exotic software) and cannot think of any explicit change that I have made to the original WinXP installation which was the first installation of any kind for this relatively new machine.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this ?
Cheers.
Down-Under Dave
Message was edited by: DaveShea at Jan 1, 2007 12:08 AM