From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 30 2006 - 16:32:10 CST

Hi Paul,
  Do you have any idea how recent the NVidia driver on the afflicted
machine is? It sounds to me like a video-driver-related problem.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:06:54PM -0500, Paul Van Allsburg wrote:
> I have a workstation running Win XP sp2 with a nVidia Quadro FX1400 and
> vmd 1.8.3. When I change the drawing method from lines to Bonds or
> several others listed the app dies with "Winvmd has encountered a
> problem and will close". The error log references:
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Application Error
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 1000
> Date: 1/30/2006
> Time: 2:02:10 PM
> User: N/A
> Computer: CSMLAB08
> Description:
> Faulting application vmd.exe, version 1.0.0.1, faulting module
> ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x0001142e.
>
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
> Data:
> 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
> 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
> 0010: 75 72 65 20 20 76 6d 64 ure vmd
> 0018: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 30 .exe 1.0
> 0020: 2e 30 2e 31 20 69 6e 20 .0.1 in
> 0028: 6e 74 64 6c 6c 2e 64 6c ntdll.dl
> 0030: 6c 20 35 2e 31 2e 32 36 l 5.1.26
> 0038: 30 30 2e 32 31 38 30 20 00.2180
> 0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65 at offse
> 0048: 74 20 30 30 30 31 31 34 t 000114
> 0050: 32 65 0d 0a 2e..
>
> Has anyone seen this behavior?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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