Suwin Fault in Unknown When Upgrading to Windows Millennium Edition (266090)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
This article was previously published under Q266090
If this article does not describe the error message that you are receiving, view the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article to view more articles that describe error messages:

315854 Windows 98 and Windows Me Error Message Resource Center

SYMPTOMS

When you are upgrading to Windows Millennium Edition (Me), you may receive the following error message when the file copy process is 10 percent complete:
SUWIN This program has caused an illegal operation and will be shut down. SUWin caused an invalid page fault in module Unknown at 0000:XXXX XXXX.

After you acknowledge the error message, Setup continues normally.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 is installed.

RESOLUTION

To prevent this error message from occurring, uninstall SQL Server 7.0 before you upgrade to Windows Me.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, disable the path for SQL Server 7.0 in the Autoexec.bat file before you upgrade to Windows Me:
  1. Click Start, click Run, type msconfig, and then click OK.
  2. Click the Autoexec.bat tab.
  3. Click to clear the following check box:

    PATH=%PATH%;C:\MSSQL7\BINN

  4. Click OK, and then restart the computer.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:9/28/2004
Keywords:kberrmsg kbFAQ kbInvalidPageFault kbprb kbsetup KB266090
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