Hi Susan Nicholson

I have had that problem with win 95 and 98. It comes up ready to go into
'Safe Mode'.  So sent it there. After it gets fully booted (dont make any
changes in anything), do a restart. I've never had to do this more than 2 or
3 times before it comes up in normal mode.
 good luck

Ed Knights

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ms Susan J Nicholson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 12:59 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] "Fatal Exception"


> I have just Formatted my computer and loaded the OS (Win 98) back onto it.
> It won't start in "Normal Mode", it says: "Fatal Exception occurred at
> 0028:C005177E in VXD VPICD(01)=0001EA2. When I press CTRL-ALT-DEL it
> re-starts, but does the same thing. Goes through the whole start-up
process
> and then won't show the desktop, just a pale blue, blank screen (not that
> the colour matters!). If I press "any key to continue" it goes straight to
> the pale blue, blank screen. However, it will start and do everything
right
> when I start it in "safe mode". Can anybody help with this problem please.
> By the way, when it does it's "scan disk" at the start, it doesn't find
> anything wrong!

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