Catastrophic Failure

Posted by Brian on January 23, 2001 7:23 AM

I am working with Excel 97, on a WinNT machine and when I am trying to save an excel file with some heavy macros in it, I am getting a very disturbing error. Here is the text: "System Error &H8000FFFF (-2147418113). Catastrophic Failure"

I can still save when this error occurs, but only if i sit here and press enter to get through the messages for about 3-4 min. This error only happens when i save.

Anyone run into this before? Or ideas on how to fix it?

I might be able to post a screen print if needed.

Thanks

Posted by Carl on January 25, 2001 9:48 PM

My guess is your running out of memory, how much do you have installed? Recommended amount is at minimum 64, 128 is better 256 best.

Posted by Jeff Crowe on October 28, 2001 6:33 AM

I got the same thing, saving a userform to a spreadsheet with a huge macro. I'm running win2000, office 97 and I have a 600 celeron with 256 mb ram...
I can't find anything anywhere on this error...