Fatal Exceptions!

[RomaniaExpress]

My system has suddenly become plagued with blue screen "Fatal Exception Error" warnings such as 0297;015f8861 and 017f;bff83bfc What could be the cause of this and what do I need to do to rectify it? I am using Win98SE. I loaded Norton Utilities recently to try and correct problems but the error warnings seem to have increased. Any ideas anyone? :eek: :confused:

[HomHomHom]

I have had similar problems with the blue screen of death, especially when playing games on my old system. I reinstalled windows from a FRESH COPY on a newly reformatted disk, using only the cd, boot disk and some drivers. before you format try to get all the drivers together in one place, and if you have a cd burner burn a disk with all the drivers and stuff on, 'specially if you have no driver disks handy. Otherwise, find, buy or steal a small (capacity) hard disk instead, and use that.
Make sure you check your system for viruses befor you copy. Worked fine for me! (don't try unless you know what your doing,if you are nice you can probably get hold of someone at kustom to talk you through it).

By the way, dont touch norton utils with a 100ft long barge pole, as it only breaks stuff - I had it for 45 minutes before taking it back - so dump it if you reformat.
Also check your memory with norton discoverer, as it could be "leaky".

P.S make sure you have at least a whole weekend for this as it can go **Horribly** out of control.

[RomaniaExpress]

thanks for that.It confirms my fears.The blue screens were around but have incresaed since downloading a copy of Norton utils.I have had insufficient memory warnings also.

[HomHomHom]

How much RAM have you got? I had only 128Mb on mine and (according to system monitor) Norton Utilities took up 14.2Mb :mad: of RAM doing "Nothing". :rolleyes: If you reformat, add some more RAM if possible - it does wonders for reliability. :D

another thing - delete Norton ASAP, it messes up windows explorer and your registry too, so I recommend you to backup and format - it's the only way to stop it... :eek:

[RomaniaExpress]

I`ve deleted Norton to be on the safe side.I have 384 Mb of Ram so memory should be no prob for the programmes I`m using.I think I`m putting off the evil day when I have to reformat.It will be a first for me and having to re install everything well,I can do without it.

[Psycho]

Ive never had a problem with Norton Utils, Speed Disk is actually a good utility and so much faster than the defrag in Windows, though I dont actually install all of the other crap included in Norton.

A VERY GOOD backup program to use to restore your beloved Hard Drive to respectability is Norton Ghost. It creates a replica of the hard drive partition of your choice (C drive Primary is the obvious one for your operating system) and compresses it to a .GHO file on another partition of your choice. If your current Windows install goes belly up (Blue Screens aplenty) it only takes 2 minutes (depending on HDD speed and IDE channel routing and .GHO file size) to restore your HDD to the state it was in when you did the original .GHO backup. Its saved me probably 100's of hours of install and setup time after windows 98 has messed up (which for me is every 3 weeks!) although Windows XP is much better :-)

[RomaniaExpress]

Hey thanks for the advice.I have Norton Ghost but the whole thing looked way too complicated to me.Since my last posting things have got worse.Blue screens,ilegal action notifications,drivers needing reinstallation,desktopsettings changing at will etc,etc.A friend told me to reinstall Win 98 over the top of my present insallation as it will only load what it thinks is missing from the present setup.I don`t think it helped! Is there a site that can take me through the formatting of my HDD step by step.After Christmas ofcourse.

Thanks to all who chipped in.Happy Christmas.

[HomHomHom]

yes. there is a walkthrough.....


mail Jan@Containersunlimited.org and go from there....


Awaiting your mail.


Jan Mulders
(System Administrator) :D