HELP ME!..PLEASE

[djpecker]

I sometimes get this message appearing on my computer either when i use internet explorer 5 or in document folders. It use to pop up all the time but now it does not pop up that often but now my computer keeps freezing all the time and i have to restart it.

This is the message-

IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in
module MACXW4.DRV at 000a:000008e8.
Registers:
EAX=000000f8 CS=036f EIP=000008e8 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00300001 SS=4147 ESP=ce267b84 EBP=808facc8
ECX=00000000 DS=2057 ESI=808fa970 FS=00c7
EDX=000000f8 ES=03e7 EDI=001d1a1b GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
3e 8b 7c 95 00 89 3d 18 6e 77 cb c1 e8 08 ba ff
Stack dump:
00000129 00008088 000038e4 00002087 000065f4 000064b5 00000234 aeea0000 000e0000 00000000 00002000 00000054 000008d1 00000000 00000000 000e0054

Can someone help me?

[scada]

What your seeing is a "dump" of the CPU's contents at the time of the program crash. I would install the newest version of Internet Explorer 5.5. You may have the beta version which was buggie.

Hope this helps http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by scada (edited 11-21-2000).]

[djpecker]

I reinstalled internet explorer 5.5 and that seem to fix that but i still get a message when i go in my document folders.

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module MACXW4.DRV at 000a:000008e8.
Registers:
EAX=000000f8 CS=036f EIP=000008e8 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00300001 SS=36af ESP=ce277b84 EBP=80a08c28
ECX=00000000 DS=2057 ESI=80b17f50 FS=0087
EDX=000000f8 ES=03e7 EDI=001d1a1b GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
3e 8b 7c 95 00 89 3d 18 0e 73 cb c1 e8 08 ba ff
Stack dump:
00000129 00008088 000038e4 00002087 000065f4 000064b5 00000234 b77a0000 000e0000 00000000 00002000 00000054 000008d1 00000000 00000000 000e0054

This is the new message, can you help?

[scada]

Sadly, CPU dumps don't tell you anything unless you can decompile the program that's running into Assembler.

First do you get this "error" when you open the folder or when trying to access a file inside?

I proable won't be able to help you till Tuesday when I return to work and have access to my "hardcore" troubleshooting resources.

But I'll try my best http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

[djpecker]

I get this message either when i open internet explorer or my documents and then i have to click close to get rid of the message. But once the message has appeared once, it doesn't really come up again.

[rUzz]

I get the same problem When I run netscape. I don't think it is your IE
I beleive this problem occurs when you are using more than one window and if you have three windows open and close the first one sometimes
the cpu gets gaps in the register and when it fragments it you get the dump of the memeory at the top of your registers. I always wandered if I was the only one whoever got this error.
What knid of CPU do you use??

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[djpecker]

My problem only happens once i have started up windows then go stright to my documents or IE.

I have a pentium 3 at 450 mhz.

[rUzz]

My problem doesn't start till I get the system warmed up. Maybe you should reinstall windows.

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[scada]

The error your getting "invalid page fault in...." can sometimes be caused by bad entries in the register. In which case reinstalling Windows as Ruzz suggested would work.

The Module refered to in the error "MACXW4.DRV" is a display driver.
I would check these few things first.

Do you have the right Display driver loaded? ( open the "display" icon in control panel and click "settings")

While your on the "Settings" page lower your resolution to 256 and reboot.
Does the error go away?

Have you installed any new software? Display drivers?

Also if you have programs which are trying to "call home" ( for example Real Network's player) These can cause an error with IE5.5 as can programs that keep tabs on which banners you click on. (some "free money" sities do this.) You can download Zone Alarm which will tell you if any of these programs try to access the net or call home.


These are just some of the things which can cause your error. If none of these options work for you. You can restore your system to what it was when you first installed Windows by renaming a file called System.1st to System.dat(both files are read only) System.1st is at the root of the C drive and System.dat is at the root of the Windows directory. Make a copy of both files for backup before renaming the System.dat file and replacing it with the renamed system.1st file. WARNING THIS WILL RESTORE YOUR COMPUTER TO WHAT IT WAS WHEN WINDOWS WAS FIRST INSTALLED ON THE SYSTEM.

***You WILL loss ALL register settings for new hardware or software.***

I would only use this last option if all else failed and I was going to reinstall anyway.


Good Luck

[This message has been edited by scada (edited 11-25-2000).]

[djpecker]

HAY! I changed my display setting from 32 bit true colour to 16 bit then reintalled IE and my problem seems to have gone away. HORAY!

Thanks for the help people!

[Reid]

Good work, Scada and rUzz. That may be the "play of the week"!

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