filesys.exe error "Just in time Debugging"?

simile007 · 05-23-03, 01:21 AM

Help!
:crooked:

My Dell Axim X5 (400MHz version) has just started giving me a random error.

I start the PDA and after a little while an error comes up:

window title: "Just in Time Debugging"

error text:
"Application filesys.exe has performed an illegal operation.

Program: filesys.exe
Exception: 0x80000002
Address: 0001ba64

Do you want to debug?
(Clicking No will shut down the application)"

Choices: "Yes" and "No"

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Problems:
1. There are no active applications except the OS running when this error comes up.
2. The PDA freezes. It doesn't let me use the power key, the stylus stops working. the only key that works is the reset key and the scroll key on the side (I know because when I scroll up or down, it turns the screen light back on).

I can't have to re-install everything. I am traveling and have files on the axim that i need... eek.

When i soft-reset, it gives me about 30 seconds before the error comes up...

thanks to all the able bodies out there who know more about Pocket PC 2002 than i do!

houdini · 08-10-03, 08:48 PM

Same problem...what did you do?

houdini · 08-10-03, 08:56 PM

:rolling: Now what? ...............
What is this filesys.exe ?
'Just In Time Debugging'....crashes my Axim. Where did this come from?
HELP!
IS this something Dell or Windows has programmed?
ASAP-PLEASE.

houdini · 08-11-03, 09:22 AM

star50fiveho?
THIS is not an answer..........been to Google and tried weeding thru all the BS to find an answer.
Too many deadends, do you know how to recover from this besides Hard reset?
Sharing a desktop and, of course I do not have a backup copy.

Saw something about a download from Windows to prevent this from happening, but couldn't find download?

Problem comes from trying to access memory from beyond 32 mgs and if everything is just right ..BAM...'Just In Time Debugging'......Cheezzzzzzzzzzz !

08-11-03, 04:27 PM

The only way to clear this up is to hard reset, and recover from a backup. I had this happen to me a few weeks ago.....did a hard reset, reloaded from a back up, and all is well now.

I'd recommend regular backups as well now, just out of habit. I have Pocket Backup and I like it alot, I do a back up every few days now, due to extreme paranoia.

08-12-03, 01:45 AM

Believe it or not... I am currently reinstalling everything because of this error. My Axim actually froze after displaying this error. And when I did a soft-reset, everything was gone. I guess it decided to do a hard-reset...

08-12-03, 01:54 AM

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iceblue · 01-19-04, 07:17 PM

Oh my god, glad to know I am not alone but depressed there seems to be no obvious solution. This is exactly my problem! My brilliant Ax X5 (PPC 2002) is just over 6 months old, I love it to bits. It has behaved perfectly till just before Christmas when it unexpectedly did a hard reset. I unzipped the (Dell) leather case, and there is was, dinging at me to touch the screen. I have restored most of the stuff thru Active Sync, carried on using it and then a couple of days ago, PING, I was using it and an error message came up to say JUST IN TIME DEBUG filesys.exe has performed an illegal action do you want to debug now? Options YES or NO but the screen was frozen, no response to tapping, scrolling, on/off or anything else. Only way to revive 'dead' Ax was to press soft reset - then it was back to having nothing in the memory again. This has now happened three times in as many days, real pain! What can be causing it, and how can I deal with it? Is it a major hardware fault? I have loaded in quite a few programs but none in the last few days which could have triggered this problem. Is JUST IN TIME debug a Dell program?

Fingers Xd someone can help, yours frustratedly, iceblue in England

venezia20 · 09-18-04, 04:28 PM

Same problem...lost everything!!! And even though did several rests, soft and hard, the message keeps coming up...Anyone has a solution to this problem?

09-18-04, 04:33 PM

Here's some good info on filesys.exe and its part in the Windows CE Boot process. Hope this is helpful, and that you get this issue resolved. It's never fun to have to hard reset

venezia20 · 09-18-04, 05:00 PM

thanks wooch!

09-18-04, 05:04 PM

Looks like filesys.sys calls up the registry . . . Interesting reading :)

houdini · 09-19-04, 04:50 PM

:approve: My problem ended when I got rid of bad SD cards. There are several types that would crash when trying to be accessed. If you are using a SD card you might want to search this site for old info regarding this issue.

If you don't have an SD card, GOOD LUCK!

Mart · 10-19-04, 09:01 AM

I have had the Filesys.exe error for a few days now. This week the harddisk of my laptop also crashed! Not my lucky day.
I do not have bas SD cards that are accessed. Are there any ways to see what process causes the error?

10-19-04, 02:01 PM

Just for what it's worth, which is likely not much; I have also had this error and forced hard reset, but not with my Dell. It was with an iPAQ 3835, happened almost a year ago. Freaked me right out. Luckily I've been making daily backups since I wrote a review of Sprite Backup, waaaaay back when it was called Sprite:Lite. So I'm never likely to lose more then a few recently-sent emails and recently-entered contacts, stuff like that. Usually I'll run a Phatware dbExplorer PIM database backup if I'm getting too many new appointments/contacts and don't feel like stopping whatever else I'm doing on the PPC to run a full backup. That's proved reliable as well, restoring nicely.

I posted a thread with this error on Brighthand back when it happened, but aside from a few sympathetic comments nothing very useful came of that. Seems the 'just in time debugging' is a bit of an ironical gesture on some programmer's part, a sort of wink and a smile just as you're about to lose all your RAM data. A joke in bad taste, if that was the intention.