The only other thing I can think of that would cause this this type of
problem would be overheating. Check to make sure the fan is working on the
processor an that there is good air flow through the case.

Fran

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary W South" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 3:47 PM
Subject: Reinstalled Windows 98 will not start


> I have a Packard Bell  300 MHz Pentium II with 96 MB RAM. I was running
> Windows 98 which was an upgrade from Windows 95. It was upgraded at least
3 years
> ago. I ran the system file checker because it was havivg a couple minor
> problems(short cuts not opening programs without rebooting, and I couldn't
get the
> modem to connect). File checker replaced a couple corrupt files and
replaced
> many others with previous versions from my Windows 98 disk. After that
Windows
> would not boot. I tried reinstalling Windows 98 several times but it
causes
> fatal exceptions when it gets to the part of setting up hardware.
Sometimes the
> errors were as it was setting up the hardware and other times it  was when
the
> computer needed  to restart after setting up the hardware. The following
is one
> example of what happened.
>
> When it said it was setting up hardware and plug and play the BLUE SCREEN
> came up. It said Windows on top
>
> A fatal exception OE has occured at 015F:BFF9DBA7  The current application
> will be terminated. press any key  after pressing a key it said
>
> MSGSRV32 caused a general protection fault in module KRNL386.EXE at
> 0001:000025D6
>
>
> After these errors sometimes ctrl+alt+del sometimes restarts but usually I
> have to turn it off. If it restarts it comes back to the same or similar
> problem. I sometimes get other error messages. I can get it started in
safe mode but
> it has no sound, and no CD-ROM.
>
> Also I have 3 32 MB RAM chips. I pulled them out and tried one at a time
to
> see if maybe one of them was bad. It does the same thing with each one or
all
> in.
>
> Does anyone have any idea of what is causing these problems and is there a
> way to fix it without losing my 5 years of information I have collected?
>
> TIA
> Gary South
>

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