Thank you for this bug report. To properly diagnose the problem, we
need a backtrace to see what is happening behind the scenes. To
find out how to generate a backtrace, please read
http://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace.php for *NIX and
http://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace-win32.php for Win32

Once you have generated a backtrace, please submit it to this bug
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us make PHP better.

oh and which php dowload did you use and where did you download the apache from?

I read the instructions for backtrace but I cannot follow them.
They require MSVC6 compiler which I don't have and other isntructions 
which I cannot follow.
I would attach the crash report generated by windows but I cannot find 
any attach link on this tool

php was downloaded from
http://windows.php.net/download/
the link
http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-5.3.1-Win32-VC6-x86.zip

and apache from
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
the link
http://apache.cc.uoc.gr/httpd/binaries/win32/apache_2.2.14-win32-x86-
openssl-0.9.8k.msi

First all be sure that it is actually a crash and not some bad configuration.

Disable all extensions in php.ini and restart apache. I'm pretty sure that you are only missing some DLLs.

I tried to run PHP through the command line and I get the following 
error.

ntwdblib.dll is missing.

I googled around and found that this a deprecated Microsoft library for 
MSSQL db.

could this be the problem for the module also;
If this is the case why does PHP requires some obsolete library;
is there an official place to get this library;

I will of course follow your isntructions and see if there is an option 
for MSSQL that might cause this problem

I commented out everything abot MSSQL and it worked.

So the problem was with the missing ntwdblib.dll

Comment out everything about MSSQL and it will work

Not a bug > bogus.