Microsoft KB Archive/174368

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Article ID: 174368

Article Last Modified on 1/20/2007



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Project 98 Standard Edition



This article was previously published under Q174368

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project 98, if you save a baseline or interim plan when the "Actual costs are always calculated by Microsoft Project" option is turned off and Actual Work is entered on a non-working day, you will receive the following error message:

Windows 95

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

If you click Details, you receive an error message similar to the following:

WINPROJ caused an invalid page fault in module WINPROJ.EXE at 0137:302b54dc.

Windows NT

An application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated.

Winproj.exe
Exception access violation (oxc0000005), address: ox3004290b

NOTE: The Actual costs are always calculated by Microsoft Project option is located on the Calculation tab in the Options dialog box. (On the Tools menu, click Options.)

CAUSE

This error occurs when all of the following are true:

  • You save a baseline or interim plan.

    -and-

  • The Actual costs are always calculated by Microsoft Project option is not selected.

    -and-

  • You entered Actual Work for a task where a resource is assigned and a day that has been assigned Actual Work is a non-working day on the resource's calendar.


WORKAROUND

To prevent this problem if the conditions listed in the "Cause" section of this article are true, do not save a baseline or interim plan if the Actual costs are always calculated by Microsoft Project option is turned off.

To work around this problem select the Actual costs are always calculated by Microsoft Project option before you save your file. Note that if you use this work around, all actual costs that you have entered will be lost and Microsoft Project will calculate new costs.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Project listed above.

This problem was corrected in Microsoft Project 98 for Windows, Service Release 1 (SR-1).

For additional information about obtaining and installing SR-1, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

185102 PRJ98: How to Obtain and Install MS Project 98 SR-1


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