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Thread ID: 20179	2002-05-31 01:08:00	What do BSOD message mean?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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51698	2002-05-31 01:08:00	I have a 6 months old PC with Athlon 1800+ chip, 512 MB of RAM and running Win 98. For the past few weeks the system has become unstable, with blue screen of death messages occurring on an almost daily basis. The messages on the BSOD are all ?fatal exception error OE? and then all refer to 0028: followed by a string of characters and numbers. (eg 0028:c1BBE5AA in VxDMSTCP (01) + 000061EA called from 0028:C1A7C145 in VxDVTDI(01) + 00000185). The trigger for the BSOD is not obvious, although on a couple of occasions it has been triggered by starting applications such as WinZip and Pegasus Mail. All BSOD messages refer to VxD, (about which I know mothing) but there the similarities end, with all messages giving unique character strings. I have kept a log of the last half dozen messages and a search on Google and on Microsoft Support?s web pages for more information about the character strings has failed to yield any useful information. Some web pages suggest the problem might be memory errors and to pull the cards out and physically clean them, others suggest problems with software that I don?t have installed. Several have suggested editing the registry. However, as none of the messages I have seen actually refer to the specific error codes I have encountered, I am reluctant to try any of these possible solutions. I guess my question for this forum is: ?Does the information on the BSOD actually have any purpose and can I use it to isolate the problem?? IAIN	Guest (0)
51699	2002-05-31 01:31:00	sounds like tcp/ip going awol. spyware ??? or try removing networking, tcp/ip etc and reinstalling it. also with 512 meg ram & win98 have you tweaked the vcache?? that could be causing some crashing.	Guest (0)
51700	2002-05-31 08:15:00	This link explains vxd: support.microsoft.com for W95 Invalid VxD Dynamic Link Calls usually result from incompatibility between driver versions, or a damaged or missing driver (VxD) file. Start by uninstalling then reinstalling any programs or components installed soon before the error message first appeared. vti.386 may be corrupt - see support.microsoft.com	Guest (0)
51701	2002-05-31 12:00:00	Hi Iain In my experence oe exceptions are usually a hardware problem,espcially if they are random,[that is not just in one particular program]. The first thing I would check is ram,use a ram testing program if you have one [I can suggest a link] or if you have multiple ram sticks try only 1 and see if that fixes it and if not try the others. If the ram is ok then it will be either the m\b or cpu make sure the cpu is being cooled well. good luck!	Guest (0)
51702	2002-05-31 22:52:00	Thank you to those who replied with your suggestions. As the message suggesting removing the TCP/IP and networking software arrived first I did remove this using the 'add/remove' software option. The result of trying to re-boot after uninstalling the TCP/IP and other 'communications' options was a major festival of BSOD messages and some difficulty, to put it mildly, regaining access to a vaguely stable Windows environment. All I know is that the computer was very upset about device 0048, service 8, device 0028, service 800A and device 28 service 74. The BSOD message helpfully said: 'Your Windows configuration is invalid. Run Windows set up to correct this problem'. After some hours of struggling with set up and ongoing BSOD messages, I gave up and restored my entire C drive from a mirror partition that was about 2 months old. Twelve hours later, the re-install from 2 months ago appears to be stable. I am still none the wiser what the actual problem was. There were no obvious hardware or major software installations recently. Thanks again for the advice and the pointers to the web pages	Guest (0)
51703	2002-06-02 04:59:00	sorry to hear you had so much probs. i wonder do you have a firewall installed? sometimes if you uninstall tcp/ip they do not like it one bit as the are hooked into it so hard. if not it soundslike you had somethig interacting with the networking.	Guest (0)
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