[Virtualacorn-list] Failed to create primary surface

[stephen.hull at btinternet.com]

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>   4. Re: Failed to create primary surface (David Pitt)
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>   6. Re: Failed to create primary surface (Paul Sprangers)
>   7. Re: Failed to create primary surface (Geoff Potter)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:58:31 GMT
>From: stephen.hull at btinternet.com
>To: virtualacorn-list at riscository.co.uk
>Subject: [Virtualacorn-list] Failed to create primary surface
>Message-ID: <83b550d150.Steve at btinternet.com>
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>I have been using Virtual Acorn on my new Toshiba laptop with
>Vista home premium service pack 2 for a few months now and it
>works very well, but about twice a week I get the following error
>message: "Failed to create primary surface" (0x8876024e).
>
>When I get this message I have to close VA and restart, not a huge
>problem except from losing any unsaved data.
>
>Has anyone encountered this error message and have they been able
>to find out what it means and/or how to fix it?
>
>The error message numbers (0x8876024e) are exactly the same each
>time it occurs and I have no idea why it randomly takes out VA on
>Vista, usually after turning on after going into hibernation,
>though it never happened with windows XP on my old laptop.
>
>
>Stephen.
>
>
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:39:32 +0000
>From: David Pitt <pittdj at pittdj.co.uk>
>To: virtualacorn-list at riscository.co.uk
>Subject: Re: [Virtualacorn-list] Failed to create primary surface
>Message-ID: <mpro.kvfa9w00001nr01bv.pittdj at pittdj.co.uk>
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>stephen.hull at btinternet.com wrote:
>
>> I have been using Virtual Acorn on my new Toshiba laptop with Vista home
>> premium service pack 2 for a few months now and it works very well, but
>> about twice a week I get the following error message: "Failed to create
>> primary surface" (0x8876024e).
>>
>> When I get this message I have to close VA and restart, not a huge problem
>> except from losing any unsaved data.
>>
>> Has anyone encountered this error message and have they been able to find
>> out what it means and/or how to fix it?
>>
>> The error message numbers (0x8876024e) are exactly the same each time it
>> occurs and I have no idea why it randomly takes out VA on Vista, usually
>> after turning on after going into hibernation, though it never happened
>> with windows XP on my old laptop.
>
>This used to happen a lot here with Vista which was also on a Toshiba
>laptop, with NVidia graphics.
>
>I have not seen the problem since upgrading to Windows 7.
>

Sorry about my previous reply to this thread being too large but
although there are 7 messages as shown above to reply to, when I
try to reply I only see the first message and therefore cannot see
a way to reply to the other six.

Stephen.