Question Access Crashed upon creation of Report

[RossWindows]

I have been having a problem every time I try to create a report using Access '97. I can run through the wizard just fine until it tries to generate the final product and then Access crashes. The crash summary screen gives me the following details;

AppName: msaccess.exe AppVer: 8.0.0.4122 ModName: ric641p.dll
ModVer: 0.3.0.0 Offset: 000112f9

I've tried following this procedure also, with no luck;

A decompile, followed by a re-compile, then a compact has always
fixed the issue. (I created a shortcut like this to decompile the db;
"C:\PathToMSAccess\MSACCESS.EXE" /decompile "C:\PathToDatabase\DBName.mdb")

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Have you recently updated Windows or MS Office from the Windows Update site?

That kind of behavior is often caused by a broken reference (though it is a bit extreme for that problem.) Search this forum for "References" to see more on that topic.

Also, what version of Windows? Ac97 is 11 years old now and I would expect that if you have ever updated your version of Windows, you might reach a point where some instructions in the old .DLL files just don't work any more. Somewhere in the transition from Win2k3 to WinXP, some security issues got tighter than they used to, and a wizard is just the kind of thing that would run afoul of that tighter security.

Next question: I know it would be a pain in the toches to do it, but can you generate that report by hand (i.e. without the wizard)? That would at least tell you whether it was the wizard or a function called out behind the scenes in your report.

 

[RossWindows]

I'm running windows xp pro. I had Access '97 installed first, then I installed Office '03 (but not Access '03). I've read that there could be a dll conflict, but the error occurs even on a machine without Office '03. The problems have been happening for at least a year, but I've been able to work around them until now; I have a lot of reports to make now.

I found that I can open Access '03 and create a report there, and then convert it to '97 format and import it into my '97 databse and it runs fine. I think it's something during the actual report creation process.

 

[dfenton]

The crash is caused, it seems, by a networking component, ric641p.dll (at least, that DLL name is listed only on a German web page referring to networking components). This is not an issue you can fix in A97. You should probably see if you can find updates for your network drivers.