MS Access systemic crashes

[Timo van Esch]

Hi,

It's been a while since I've been active here. Recently I took up a new challenge and here we are working with Office 2010 SP2 Pro Plus 32bit on a Windows 8 Enterprise 64bit OS. I experience Access crashes several times a day, while working on the development of a major database.

One example that is consistent, is the following:
When I open a table and want to make a selection on the table by clicking the arrow with my mouse, I have to continue selecting by mouse. As soon as I touch my keyboard while in the selection box, the database crashes. I have tried to reinstall my keyboard and mouse drivers, but that didn't really solve anything and I start to suspect there is some buggy code in Access SP2.

Who has had the same experience and did manage to resolve this?

With kind regards,
Timo

 

[Ranman256]

I had an Access do this too. We tried repairing, reinstalling, but nothing.
The only fix was to use a different PC.
For some reason that old PC was not compatible since we could not get them to work together.

 

[Timo van Esch]

Hi Ranman256,

*auwtsj*
They supplied me with a Thinkpad T450 (i5-5300 2.3Ghz, 8Gb intern, SSD).
You should think that should be sufficient...

The strange thing is, that it doesn't happen in Excel, only in Access.

 

[Minty]

If you are new to the database you are working on, make sure that the Track Name Auto correct is switched off it cause me no end of crashes / corruption when I start on a new project and forget to switch it off.
I develop in 2010 Office Pro - and it's very stable. Running old Dell Studio XPS i7 8Gb Ram, 1Tb Hybrid drive.

 

[JHB]

..
One example that is consistent, is the following:
When I open a table and want to make a selection on the table by clicking the arrow with my mouse, I have to continue selecting by mouse. As soon as I touch my keyboard while in the selection box, the database crashes...

Do the same happen in all databases or only in that database?
You could create a new database and put in some data in a table - does it still crash?
Or create a new database and import all from the old one into it.
Did you do a "Compact & Repair"?

 

[Timo van Esch]

Yes indeed, this I tried.
It happens with Access in general; doesn't matter what database.
And it ONLY happens with Access; not with Excel, f.i.

 

[JHB]

Without knowing it exactly - it sounds to me like there's something wrong with your MS-Access installation.