Microsoft KB Archive/266090

= Suwin Fault in Unknown When Upgrading to Windows Millennium Edition =

Article ID: 266090

Article Last Modified on 1/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

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This article was previously published under Q266090



If this article does not describe the error message that you are receiving, view the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article to view more articles that describe error messages:

315854 Windows 98 and Windows Me Error Message Resource Center



SYMPTOMS
When you are upgrading to Windows Millennium Edition (Me), you may receive the following error message when the file copy process is 10 percent complete:

SUWIN This program has caused an illegal operation and will be shut down. SUWin caused an invalid page fault in module Unknown at 0000:XXXX XXXX.

After you acknowledge the error message, Setup continues normally.



CAUSE
This behavior can occur if Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 is installed.



RESOLUTION
To prevent this error message from occurring, uninstall SQL Server 7.0 before you upgrade to Windows Me.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, disable the path for SQL Server 7.0 in the Autoexec.bat file before you upgrade to Windows Me:  Click Start, click Run, type msconfig, and then click OK. Click the Autoexec.bat tab. Click to clear the following check box:

PATH=%PATH%;C:\MSSQL7\BINN

 Click OK, and then restart the computer.

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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Keywords: kberrmsg kbfaq kbinvalidpagefault kbprb kbsetup KB266090

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