I use this utility to help eliminate BSoD's. Mine went from "Often" to "Very
Rare" running Win98SE. FTL:
http://nospin.com/pc/pcs05-012.html
Both Win98 and 95 available. Good luck and let me know.
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>Hello all,
>
> > I've been having a lot of fatal exception errors and general
> > protection faults lately. Much of the time, it starts with
> > "Explorer has caused an invalid page fault in module GDI.EXE
> > at 0001:00005432" or words to that effect. Since this was
>
>I've been having similar problem - lots of Invalid Page Faults in various
>modules.
>
>At first, I thought it was a bug in Office 2K (I had installed it around
>the
>time the problems started). Then I thought it was a problem with the CD I
>loaded it off (corrupt files), then I thought it was the drivers for my
>video card or motherboard. Then I thought it was my RAM chips.
>
>After many days of trying reformats, reinstalls with different CDs,
>different applications and drivers, I discovered that the problem was due
>to
>my CMOS hardware settings. The problem was due to my having increased the
>motherboard speed to 100MHz (I used to run it at 83MHz). Reducing it to
>83MHz seems to have cleared the problems. It's too early to be sure that
>this is the cause and solution, but my computer is far more reliable now
>its
>on 83MHz.
>
>Background: I have a PC-100 m/b with PC-100 RAM dimms, and a 333MHz k6-2. I
>upgraded the CPU to a 500MHZ, hence I increased the m/b speed. The problems
>started happening shortly after, but I was convinced it was a software
>problem.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Neil
>----------------------------------------------
>Neil Carter Psychology Department
>IT Technician University of Wales Swansea
> Wales, United Kingdom
>
>http://psy.swansea.ac.uk/Staff/NeilCarter/
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