Re: kb832483 problem

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From: Val Mazur (group51a_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:45:09 -0500

Hi Gary,

Usually this error rises in case if MDAC installation is corrupted. Check if
you do not have any antivirus running during installation of MDAC. In some
cases it causes problems. For Windows XP you could use Windows XP SP1a (not
SP1) to fix MDAC installation or MDAC 2.7 SP1a 

-- 
Val Mazur
Microsoft MVP
"Gary" <garyl@tela.com> wrote in message 
news:ORXadyk9DHA.2168@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hope someone has run into this before and can help me out.
> My software uses vb6 and ado to connect to both access and sql server
> databases. Recently, some of our
> customers running windows xp pro have started getting and error trying to
> start the software.
> Method '~' of object '~' failed. At that point, the software shuts down.
> I've had this problem before
> on some machines but that turned out to be a problem with the jet oledb
> install. The common thread seems to be
> they have all been picking up the microsoft updates religiously. 
> Yesterday,
> another customer called with the same
> problem after she had installed the KB832483 patch for mdac buffer 
> overflow.
> I had her download mdac 2.8
> and reinstall that and it fixed her problem, but it doesn't work for
> everyone. In several cases, they have had to
> reinstall win xp from scratch. Is there someway to "fix" the patch with 
> out
> resorting to reinstalling windows?
> btw it doesn't appear to affect any other versions of windows, no calls 
> form
> 98/nt/2000/me users.
> tia
> gary
>
>
>

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