Microsoft KB Archive/41024

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PRB: FATAL: Internal Stack Failure, System Halted

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Q41024

6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 | 1.00 1.50 MS-DOS | WINDOWS kbenv kbprb -- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft C for MS-DOS, versions 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0ax - Microsoft C/C++ for MS-DOS, version 7.0 - Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows, versions 1.0 and 1.5 -- SYMPTOMS ======== For MS-DOS version 3.2 or later, the following message is issued by MS-DOS when too many interrupts occur too quickly and the pool of internal stack frames is exhausted: FATAL: Internal Stack Failure, System Halted RESOLUTION ========== Increasing the number of stacks allocated for use by interrupt handlers in the STACKS command in CONFIG.SYS usually corrects the problem. MORE INFORMATION ================ The syntax is as follows: STACKS=n,s n = number of stacks, ranging from 8 to 64, with 9 as the default s = size of each stack, ranging from 32 to 512 bytes, default of 128. For more information about the STACKS command, see page 805 of the &quot;MS-DOS Encyclopedia.&quot; This error can occur if network cards, laboratory measurement instruments, and other devices are in use. They may generate many hardware interrupts, thus exhausting the MS-DOS stack resources. Note: For MS-DOS version 3.3 on an IBM-PC, IBM-XT, or IBM-PC-Portable, the default for n is 0 (zero) and s is 0. Additional reference words: 6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 1.00 1.50 KBCategory: kbenv kbprb KBSubcategory: TlsMisc

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