Check your cpu fan and airways, In my experience this is almost always the cause of OE fatal exceptions Greg DeLong greg@gndsystems -----Original Message----- From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Andre Cotnoir Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 6:31 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [PCBUILD] Big Blue Screen of Death Hi all About a week ago I started getting the subject BBSOD on startup. It says "fatal exception OE has occurred at 015F:BFF72830". After I hit the enter key sometimes it continues to bootup and sometimes it just hangs at the startup screen. My computer has been working without any problems until then. I have not added any new hardware or software what so ever. Any idea what could be causing this problem and/or a possible solution. My system is as follows: p3 450mHZ p2bF mobo 128 Megs ram Diamond Vipper 770 20.5 WD 7200 HD 19" Optquest V95 monitor 50X CD Rom HP 8200i CD Rom Burner TIA Andy Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html