Some interesting error messages and unhelpful help that readers have come across.
Sometimes you get singularly unhelpful help or error messages. Here’s some we and our readers have found recently …
William Ferry reports the following weird error message, which occurs whenever he boots his laptop running Win NT Workstation:
“The control registers for COM2 overlaps with the COM2 control registers.”
followed two lines later by
“While validating that COM2 was really a serial port, the contents of the divisor latch register was identical to the interrupt enable and the receive registers. The device is assumed not to be a serial port and will be deleted.”
I have gotten this strange error message several times, on opening a Word merge document with an Access table as its data source:
“Microsoft Access was unable to create the Database window. Please upgrade to a newer version of Microsoft Internet Explorer.”
