Ian writes:

<<The PC was running ME, but flakily, so I reformatted the drive and installed
Win98SE.  However, the flakiness has remained - in the form of constant
error messages, invalid page faults and exception 0E's etc.>>

This might sound laughable, coming from one who's barely taken the cover
off his computer, but you didn't mention checking the HD, even tho it's
new. Are these not early symptoms of a HD going AWOL?

Is Scandisk 100% infallible?  Could there be intermittent HD faults?

Don Penlington

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