illegal operation

[Ruba]

Hi,

I think this priblem might've faced most of you, that is, when a windows with " This program made an illegal operation....", this apears mostly when one of office applications is runnig and also other installed app. like corel and so, some say it's a memory problem but when I tried to replce it nothing changed even after format. another one said its a CPU-cooling problem. If so changing the cooling fan would be enough,

Thanks ,
Ruba

[saphalline]

Very rarely (if ever) is the "Illegal operation..." message caused by hardware. It's all software! Sometimes a driver issue, sometimes a registry error (especially if someone's been pokin around down there), sometimes certain programs don't co-exist well, but mostly it's just a program bug.

You happened to do something on your particular system that wasn't specifically tested and you got an error. Program crashes, unsaved data is lost, and much cursing commences! :p Of course, this isn't something that's supposed to happen every half hour, so if you think it's happening quite often, there may be a bigger issue involved such as an incorrect software configuration. Some large programs with many parts/patches/updates/etc. need to be installed in a certain order.

These are just places to start, tho, someone else will likely come along to answer more questions. Does this happen a lot with a specific program or are you just talking in general? You aren't running Win95 or WinME, are you? :rolleyes:

[Ben2002]

If you click on the details button on the 'Illegal Operation' box, the first line should read something like 'spooler32.dll caused a page fault in module something...'. This can be useful in pinpointing the problem, especially if you do a search with that line on support.microsoft.com

Practical example: in this example spooler32 indicates the print spooler which may be caused by a problem with the printer drivers.

Ben

[gopi_vs]

I looked around the Microsoft Knowledge base and this is what it says:

This behavior can occur if the protected mode (32-bit) drivers for some of the storage devices installed in your computer are disabled. The installation programs for the programs listed at the beginning of this article require protected mode (32-bit) Windows file system drivers.

you can click here (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q175703&LN=EN-US) for a more detailed report on it.

Hope this helps....:(