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Originally Posted by Mikey242 (Post 114107)

Very strange indeed. The only other thing I can think of is a software conflict going on. This is often caused by antivirus software or even driver software. Does this happen with any of the beta versions of MA3?

Try booting into safe mode and try accessing the settings panel (obviously the screensaver itself will run poorly if at all in this mode). This will tell us if it is possibly linked to either drivers or a software conflict.

Good luck!

Went into Safe Mode - did not get a crash, but then, I was thinking can you get an APP Crash in Safe Mode?? Received message "No 3d Devie found" because the drivers were obviously missing. So it did not crash but then, there are so many parts of the operating system not loaded as well that I am not sure it is telling us it is a conflict with AV software or other software anymore than it is a conflict with part of Vista x64, ....much of which does not load in SM....

Shut down all the the AV I can (back in regular mode) and still get the crash....I am using ESET for AV and Firewall, which I find quite good.

Any luck getting it to work sca?

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Originally Posted by Mikey242 (Post 114170)

Any luck getting it to work sca?

No - again, just to be clear -it does work. I just get this error if I access the Settings Panel...it starts and stops fine as to the actual program.

I did not get the error in Safe Mode...so it's a conflict, but again, I don't know if it's a conflict with a driver for another program or for Vista x64 itself....Not too terrible as I don't go into the Windows Screen Saver selection/settings panel that often nor into the Serene Screen Settings Panel that often....

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Originally Posted by sca (Post 114173)

I did not get the error in Safe Mode...so it's a conflict, but again, I don't know if it's a conflict with a driver for another program or for Vista x64 itself....Not too terrible as I don't go into the Windows Screen Saver selection/settings panel that often nor into the Serene Screen Settings Panel that often....

If you are interested in finding the conflict, there's a (rather tedious) procedure using msconfig to isolate the problem.

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Originally Posted by Dale (Post 114174)

If you are interested in finding the conflict, there's a (rather tedious) procedure using msconfig to isolate the problem.

Yes, that's an idea - I know the general procedure but your exact description would be helpful - I guess I would turn off most everything I can to begin with and see if that stops it in the first shot, and then turn them on until the error returns....I assume I need to reboot on each trial...

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Originally Posted by sca (Post 114176)

Here's the Microsoft reference:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950093

I've found the HP article here to be readable, also.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/f...name=c00819747

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Originally Posted by Dale (Post 114183)

Here's the Microsoft reference:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950093

I've found the HP article here to be readable, also.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/f...name=c00819747

Thanks so much - will see if I have time one evening to play with this - definitely a background down-time kind of activity to do all the reboots....

Issue not happening in Win7

Hi Jim,

Hope you are well....I just installed the WIN7 RC and there is no problem....so I assume this was an internal conflict with one of my prior programs, a device, or just the way Vista64 was structured...

Any thoughts on the timing of next update....

Thanks for following up on this.

The next update is still a while off.