Win2k/Access97 Stop errors

[melloman]

I have 2 errors showing up on the same machine in an office I took over support for, and the errors match the symptoms in Q234557. These stop errors>

IRQ_not_less_or_equal
Page_fault_in_non_paged_area

That Q article is for NT4, This is Win2k.

Both have been happening in Access 97. The win2k machine is a new build, others were upgrades, but not all. This unit is the only one doing it. It's the fastest one of the bunch, so I wonder. Also, the unit with the issue has had service pack 3 for win2k installed to try to fix it, to no avail. Other units have been freshly upgrade loaded with win2k, except 2, but none have seen the issue, and have not gotten SP3.

Caveats:
The database is hitting the 500 meg mark.
The database will not compact. (If someone can point me in the direction to solve that, it would help as well)
No access97 updates are available on the office download site. Add-ins yes, converters, yes.

[doctorgonzo]

Can you open other databases, or does opening Access always result in the error?

500 MB is too big for an Access database. You are running the risk of data corruption with something that big.

[melloman]

I know about the potential corruption.

when I got there, the database was 500 meg. It was running peer to peer on win98 where the pc's were all 128 megs or less.
crashing was a way of life.

Now the rest aren't crashing, the one with the database is not being used as a desktop, and the network is 100 base, not 10 base. And all the machines have double or triple the RAM. It's come down to this one machine is not doing what the others are doing, running right.
The network has 9 machines.

[melloman]

Sorry, I left something out. the crash, stop error does not happen on other machines on the same query, and the crashes are ocurring at random times. Always with the stop error though.