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.
> >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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