I've got a database which I am using for interviewing (hopefully!) tommorrow, but when I compile it on my main machine and try to open the compilation on my laptop (Sony VAIO VGN-S series) I get the error "The Application faile to initialize properly (0xc00000005)." And it will not open. I thought it may be something to do with the two machines, so I installed FM8.5 Advanced straight onto the laptop, which worked fine, but on trying to open it I get the same error. Please help me if you can, if I can't get this working by tommorrow I have a lot of printing to do...

Fred

Ok, many hours of research later, I discovered it is a problem with sonicstage and I need the utility SOASMS-00834301-US.EXE from Sony, to replace an audio driver which is causing the problem. Which I cannot find.

Fred

Many hours? I don't consider 1 and 1/2 hours a lot of time.

I glad you were able to work this one out on your own.

However, you really didn't give us enough information to be much of a help to you.

I don't see any mention of "sonicstage", or that you had a third party product involve. About the only thing I can get out of your original post was that the error was NOT a FileMaker error. BTW, for a list of these, check out the Online Help for [color:blue]Get(LastError) function

Lee