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PRJ98: Crash When You Display the Assign Resources Dialog Box

Article ID: 186090

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Project 98 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q186090

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project 98, when you display the Assign Resources dialog box (on the Tools menu, point to Resources, and then click Assign Resources), you may receive one of the following error messages.

In Windows 95

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

When you click Details, you receive the following message:

WINPROJ caused an invalid page fault in module WINPROJ.EXE at <address>.

In Windows NT

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

WINPROJ.EXE
Exception: access violation (0xc0000005), Address: <address>.

CAUSE

This behavior may occur in consolidated projects, if the inserted project(s) contain a large number of resources, for example, three inserted projects, each containing 15,000 resources.

WORKAROUND

To correct this problem, install Microsoft Project 98 for Windows Service Release 1 (SR-1).

STATUS

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

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

Keywords: kbbug kberrmsg kbfix KB186090

Microsoft KB Archive/186090

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