Unable to initialize DAO/Jet db engine

[Adrian Mongeli]

I have been dealing with this problem for over five months now. Microsoft
has been helpfull trying to help me with this, but no solutions yet.

I have been getting the following error message when installing our app on
a computer which has a clean installation of W95:

"Unable to initialize DAO/Jet db engine".. then I get an Invalid Page Fault.

I assume this might be a DLL version mismatch. So I backed up the app,
reformated my development computer, and restored my app, InstallShield X,
Crystal Reports, and Visual C++6.0. Then recompiled the app with the
correct DLLs.

I still got the same error message.

So I tried installing MDAC**.EXE and DCOM98.EXE on both computers and
the same problem happens.

The app works great on my development computer, but failes when installed on
our test computer.

Does anyone know what might be causing this?

Any solutions would be great. Thanks !

- Adrian Mongeli
[email protected]


Adrian Mongeli
[email protected]

[Torsten Jochem]

Hey... ~)

I know that message. It appears if u don't have DAO installed on the PC !
That means, that u first have to install the DAO Jet-Engine before using it.

Possibilities of installing the Jet-Engine :
a) Install VC on the computer (no good idea at the endusers-computer).
b) Install MS Access (it uses DAO as database).
c) Install the DAO-Engine (u can find it on the CD of Visual C++ in the directory "DAOSDK\REDIST".

Then u won't have any problems...

..cya bye Torsten.