2003 Crash

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Steve
Did you install it or was it preinstalled?
I always format the drive and do a full install on a new
machine as I have found the preinstalled stuff is often
flaky.
Sorry if that sounds a bit extreme.
I'm a developer and I have excel open all day and xl 2003
has only crashed once in the last 3 months and I was
pushing a bit hard.

cheers
Simon
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Hello everyone.

I just purchased a new IBM ThinkPad and find myself in
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Excel Crash Hell. I'm not certain that it's the
ThinkPad's fault, but I haven't experienced this degree of
crashing with essentially the same software set-up on my 2
previous laptops.
Having read in this forum the 'XLB' file can cause
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problems, I've removed it (although it's never caused
problems for me before), and still experience frequent,
random "Excel has encountered an error and must shut-down'
messages. I've tried 'detect & repair' and the crashes
continue.
 
Steve
I remember rumours of clashes between video cards and
Excel from years ago - it sounds like that may be your
problem here rather than excel. See if there are any
other drivers you can use for your video card.

You could also check for Windows updates, check your
hardware components are on the Windows Hardware
Compatibility List.

As a matter of interest if you turn screen updating off
and save through vba does it still crash?
I'd turn autosave off too

cheers
Simon
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Simon, it's a new install, including SP1. (it was doing
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it before the SP1 install) Essentially the same software
configuration I apply each time I buy a new laptop
(usually after spilling a cup of Starbucks into the
keyboard. . .)
The plot thickens - I isolated the problem quite a bit
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more last night. It only does it when my screen
resolution is set to 1024 x 768 with my 'Semiar setup'
scheme. And then not all the time. When working in Excel
in the normal resolution of 1600 x 1200, it never crashes
(I've been doing a torture test on it since I bought the
new laptop.) Unfortunately, my job is to train in Excel,
so the 1024 x 768 for my projector isn't an option.
The 'random' (I thought) was the 'Auto-recover' setting.
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It appears that 'something happens', and Excel starts
crashing when I save (or auto-recover saves.) I can
sometimes reproduce this when I save, but only when the
display resolution is at the 1024 x 768 setting (16 vs. 32
bit doesn't matter). It never happens when at the LCD's
native resolution of 1600 x 1200.
The really strange thing (to me) about this is that I've
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been instructing with Excel for nearly 5 years. I'm in it
for 8 hrs a day. Using essentially the same software set-
up (this version/copy of Excel) for the past 6 months, and
never had the problem till I got this new honey of a
laptop.
 
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