# Spare stack pages BSoD

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-stack-pages-bsod/44595>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 8, 2000, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-stack-pages-bsod/44595 "2000-12-08T06:23:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-stack-pages-bsod/44595/1 "2000-12-08T06:23:34Z")

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I have had many error messages on my computer, but this one is new to me. The blue screen comes up and says:

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> There are no spare stack pages. It may be necessary to increase the settings in SYSTEM.INI to prevent any possible stack faults. There are currently 4 SPs allocated.

I guess I will change the setting in system.ini to 5 or 6. What caused this error? I’m not running any more applications than I normally do.

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**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-stack-pages-bsod/44595/2 "2000-12-08T06:24:49Z")

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By the way, I am running Windows 98SE.