Andre said...

>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.

Hi,

  I won't profess to know much here, but I'm told that Fatal Exceptions are not the result of the Operating System crashing, but a conflict with your hardware. I have had a lot of trouble with BSOD's in past year, in the end I resolved the problem by being very selective with my drivers, as the problem seems to emanate from these - my assumption only. My PC shop found I had a fault problem with the motherboard and they replaced it. This alleviated the number of incidents, but they still occurred. So I tried everything. I found that an upgrade driver for the Bus was the source, when I did the last install I omitted the upgrade and stayed with the factory-packaged stuff. I have never seen another BSOD on this system since.

So I suspect that you either have a hardware fault or a corrupt driver. As I said, I'm no expert.


Regards Roger.

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