I use MPLABX in Linux (Debian) without problems, works fine. You can try Linux in a virtualbox virtual machine. Vinicius Em 03-07-2014 17:45, Richard R. Pope escreveu: > John, > I updated Java. I also installed MPLAB X 1.41. I have now tested > versions 1.41, 1.6, and 2.1. Sometimes 141 will load all of the way and > doesn't blowup until I try to open a project and sometimes it blows up > while the splash screen is up. 160 loads all of the way and then blows > up when I try to open a project. 210 blows up while the splash screen is > up and the modules are loading. When they crash I have to do a hardware > reset to regain control. Cntl-Alt-Del doesn't work. 892 works fine. > What is puzzling is that X worked fine six months ago. And yes, > there was at least one Java update and maybe more. I have dug through > the faqs, done all kinds of google searches, sent requests to Microchip, > reinstalled XP, done checks on my hardware, reinstalled MpLabX all > versions several times, and I am completely lost. > I'm a GUI kind of guy. I went from the C=3D 128 to the Amiga > platform. I didn't switch over to the PC until Win98 was available and I > still used my Amiga a lot. In fact I was still using my Amiga when XP > became available. I did do some dabbling in MSdos and I did a lot of dos > work on the Amiga but I prefer a GUI over a CMD line interface. I ran > SDCC with the help switch and wow are there a lot of commands. > Thanks, > rich! > P.S. I'm leaving the text because it has the description of my computer. > rich! > > On 7/3/2014 8:03 AM, John J. McDonough wrote: >> On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 22:21 -0500, Richard R. Pope wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> Six months ago MPLAB X worked fine on my system. I didn't use it >>> until last week. When I tried to use MPLAB X my system froze up. I had >>> to do a hard reset to regain control. >> I would be suspicious of Java. Perhaps your Java has at some point been >> updated to be incompatible with the version of MPLAB-X you are running. >> In spite of all the claims, Java has never been particularly good at >> compatibility from one version to the next. MPLAB-X is heavily Java. >> >> --McD >> >> >>> I have a Tyan S2885 Thunder mother board with dual AMD Opteron 2= 50 >>> processors running at 2.4 GHz. There is 2 GB of ram on the motherboard >>> and I have over a TB of hard drive space. I am running XP with SP-3 and >>> the rest of updates installed. >>> Can anyone please help me fix my problem with MPLAB X? MPLAB 8.x >>> works fine. So does MPLAB 5.x and the rest of my programs. Because of >>> this problem and a problem with a spyware program I did a complete clea= n >>> reinstall of XP last week. >>> Thanks, >>> rich! --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .