My guess is a bad hard drive. When you run scandisk does the status window
show many bad blocks?

Brian Fink wrote:

> I have a running computer after a format, but the illegal operations are
> killing me. Mostly occurring while running IE. The most frequent one
> involves mshtml.dll errors.
>
> The only info I have is it's a Packard Bell Multimedia 215.(Friends
> computer) I managed to find video, sound, and modem drivers, without too
> many problems, but am I missing some motherboard drivers?
>
> I've done many formats and os installs, (although no PB's), but this one
> has me stumped.
>
> 64 megs ram
> win98se
> s3 ViRGE video
> pos modem
> pos sound
> 4 gig quantum drive
> ...




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