PC Probe - "canvas does not allow drawing"

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Do anyone know what is the problem with Asus PC Probe ?

Many "canvas does not allow drawing" pop-up message boxes when running
PC Probe on Win 98.

There are no problem when running on 2K or XP.

I have tried many version of PC Proble from 2.14 to 2.20
 
(^o^) said:
Do anyone know what is the problem with Asus PC Probe ?

Many "canvas does not allow drawing" pop-up message boxes when running
PC Probe on Win 98.

There are no problem when running on 2K or XP.
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Sounds like the Probe is designed for a later version of the API than that
which is installed on your Win98. Which API? Dunno.. most likely it's
MSVC++ or could VB or...

Look for MSVCRT.dll, and make sure it's version 6 or later. If the one in
your windows directory is older, you should install the available update
from MS

A quick fix could be to copy the one from 2K into the directory or Probe -
if this causes more problems, remove it.

Thats assuming it uses MSVC++.

Ben
 
ASUSPROBE caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7b9a6
Registers
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=bff7b9a6 EFLAGS=00000246
EBX=0135465e SS=016F ESP=0458fbec EBP=0458fc14
ECX=c1bd9880 DS=016F ESI=01354690 FS=3c3f
EDX=00000000 ES=016F EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP
ff 76 04 e8 93 89 ff ff 5e c2 04 00 56 8b 74 24
 
(^o^) said:
ASUSPROBE caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7b9a6
Registers
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=bff7b9a6 EFLAGS=00000246
EBX=0135465e SS=016F ESP=0458fbec EBP=0458fc14
ECX=c1bd9880 DS=016F ESI=01354690 FS=3c3f
EDX=00000000 ES=016F EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP
ff 76 04 e8 93 89 ff ff 5e c2 04 00 56 8b 74 24
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When loading Probe? When running Probe? When closing Probe?

You need to help us to help you - have you tried what I suggested?

Ben
 
I have used several versions in that range under Windows "98" on my
A7V333-board with no problems (except inability to set the
fanspeed-threshold alerts low enough, until 2.20.01 so i could finally
stop downloading the same old Borland files again and again (see
below)).

I think one of the reasons for the rather steady release of new versions
of PC Probe is to support new motherboards, and then a couple of more
versions for each board to actually make it work right. ;-/
You don't mention what motherboard you have, so people on here can't
tell you definitively that it should work under Windows "98" on that
board. But if it's a new board, you might have to wait a couple of
releases until they get it right for your board.

It sounds like you've never gotten it to work under "98". But if i guess
wrong and you had it running ok at first and it started malfunctioning
after a while, and the reinstalls don't help, one thing that doesn't get
deleted during an uninstall is the "HKLM\Software\Asus\AsusAHD"-key ...
so maybe if that has gotten corrupt ... well just a thought.
Sounds like the Probe is designed for a later version of the API than that
which is installed on your Win98. Which API? Dunno.. most likely it's
MSVC++ or could VB or...
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It's Borland's C++ Builder 3.0(.3.70). There are 5 Borland
(Runtime)-files from back in 1998-02-(08-09) installed into the
"X:\Windows\System\"-folder when you install PC Probe.

When uninstalling PC Probe you can choose to uninstall them or leave
them alone (assuming you have nothing else that uses them).
 
.... et al. said:
It's Borland's C++ Builder 3.0(.3.70). There are 5 Borland
(Runtime)-files from back in 1998-02-(08-09) installed into the
"X:\Windows\System\"-folder when you install PC Probe.

When uninstalling PC Probe you can choose to uninstall them or leave
them alone (assuming you have nothing else that uses them).
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Hmmm, probably isn't that then as mostly the libraries get installed as part
of the whole package.

Ben
 
It's Asus P4B which has Win98 certificate.

http://usa.asus.com/inside/certificate.htm

I have a clean install of 98 with latest IAA (845 chipset driver) from
Intel web site.

I have tested many version of PC Probe including the version on the P4B
CD and 2.15 to 2.22 from asus web site.

I can view CPU temperature, Voltage, Fan Speed and DMI explorer with PC
PRobe on Win98.

However, many Message Box "canvas does not allow drawing" will suddenly
pop up on the screen.


But I never have this problem when running the same version of PC Probe
on W2K or XP.

It seem that the problem only occur on Win98.
 
There are two kind of message box ( with stop icons ) pop up with title
"Asus Probe 2".

One is "Canvas does not allow drawing" and the other is "Number of data
points exceed limit".

I have to press the reset button to reboot P4B.
 
(^o^) said:
There are two kind of message box ( with stop icons ) pop up with title
"Asus Probe 2".

One is "Canvas does not allow drawing" and the other is "Number of data
points exceed limit".

I have to press the reset button to reboot P4B.
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Hi There,
There could be a very simple reason for your problems!
You could have run out of system resources. Win 95 only allocates 1MB for
system resources, 98&ME 2MB while NT & XP uses dynamic allocation. If
PC-probe (or for that matter any other program you're running) is leaking
resources the message your getting will be exactly "Canvas does not allow
drawing". I did get exactly this message when I was running FreeMem on my
old ME. The culprit in that case was another program leaking resources, the
only reason the error occured in Freemem was that it continously polled the
memory which is exactly what PC-probe does. Freezing up and requiring a hard
boot is also exactly in line with being out of system resources. Get a
freeware program that monitors and logs system (graphics) resources and
check out whats happening!

Yours

Anders
 
(^o^) said:
There are two kind of message box ( with stop icons ) pop up with title
"Asus Probe 2".

One is "Canvas does not allow drawing" and the other is "Number of data
points exceed limit".

I have to press the reset button to reboot P4B.
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Can't help you with your error messages, never seen them. And don't know
what PC Probe version should work on a P4B Motherboard under Win98.

But if you want monitoring and protection of your hardware you could try
Alex Van Kaam's free MotherBoard Monitor <http://mbm.livewiredev.com/>
instead. It does monitor the same things Asusteks's PC Probe does, and
also other stuff like the temperature of graphic-cards and
harddiskdrives if they support monitoring.
I'm surprised noone has suggested it yet.

I use PC Probe because i like the graphs of temperature over time you
get. So i then use another application to monitor my graphic-card.
 
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