Hi,
I was digging around in my printed technical docs and I found a
reference to this problem (PSS ID# Q191949  - Microsoft Technet)
relating to Spool32 causing Invalid page faults.

It states:

There may be a terminate and stay resident (TSR) or other program
that prevents Spool32.exe from being run when Win9x starts.  To
work around this issue, use one of the following methods:

1. Create a shortcut to the windows/system/spool32.exe file in
the Startup folder.

2. Using a text editor, such as Notepad, add the following line
to the Load= or Run= line in the [Windows] section of Win.ini
file:

<drive>: \windows\system\spool32.exe

where <drive> is the drive on which Windows 9x is installed.

You can try these suggestions.  If it doesn't help, you can just
undo them.

Dan

> This one is driving me nuts and I hope someone can point me in
the right direction.  In the last 9 months, my machine has
crashed 124 times due to the following:
>
> SPOOL32 caused an invalid page fault in
> module SPOOL32.EXE at 017f:00402015.
> Registers:
> EAX=00000004 CS=017f EIP=00402015 EFLGS=00010283
> EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0128ff84 EBP=00000000
> ECX=d11c32a0 DS=0187 ESI=bff7c8bd FS=50ef
> EDX=bffc9490 ES=0187 EDI=bff92b8f GS=0000
> Bytes at CS:EIP:
> ff 33 55 e8 d3 f0 ff ff 89 03 e8 de 0c 00 00 89
> Stack dump:
> 00000000 00000004 0128ffcc 817915d8 00000008 8178f84c bff88f20
00000000 817915d8 00000008 8178f84c 00000007 0128ffa4 0128fdb4
ffffffff bffc05b4
>
> Some specifics.  My machine is a HP Pavilion 6645C, Intel
Celeron 566mhz, 128mb RAM, Windows 98SE.  This problem only
occurs at boot up.
> Let me repeat that.  THIS PROBLEM ONLY OCCURS AT BOOT UP.
Never when printing or scanning.
>
> Some things I have done to correct the problem:
> 1.  Disabled Norton Anti-Virus
> 2.  Diabled Norton Utilities
> 3.  Thinking that I might have a corrupted spool32.exe file, I
replaced it.
>
> None of the above corrected the problem.
>
> Help please!
> Thank you for your time and concern.
> Ted Saselli

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