A fatal exception 0E has occured at 0028:xxxxxxxx in VxD

i get this error
"A fatal exception 0E has occured at 0028:xxxxxxxx in VxD "
when I start windows 98, i cannot boot up even in safe mode

I HAVE...
re-installed win98 a few times after formatting drive
replaced both ram chips
reset all bios settings to failsafe
set the cpu bus speed & multiplyer, in bios to minimum
turned off external cache
turned off PNP devices

Nvidia TNT-2 32MB
2 X (PC 133, 128 MB)
amd athlon proc.

this is not my system, so I do not know the actual speed of process., it is an athlon, the bios says it is 1333Mhz

Does this sound like the processor is bad????
if not what is the problem

 

Hi Gasolene,
oops. reread your post after responding and had to delete.

Tin

 

could be cpu

Sure could be alrite. Are you watching the fan when it boots? What's the history of this puter? Has someone overclocked & therefore skeeerood it up? The VXD error reps a virtual divedriver most times. Do ya got an old pci video card around? Could be tnt card not all the way in the agp slot or you don't have agp enabled in bios, or, or, or, we need some more history

 

thnx,

the fan starts up fine, the cpu hasn't been overclocked as far as I know. i double checked the agp setting in bios, the agp card seems to be in fine.

the problem started after trying to install a new operating system(clean install, formated drive), win95, win98, & win2000 all halt on start up with the same error.

Ram was added, but I removed the ram chip & still got the same error message.

is the vxd error usually related to video card or cpu problems??

 

Error

Gasolene, did you try another video card? If not do so. Then if no go, do a thorough scan of hard drive. Why? Cuz there could be bad sectors on this drive about where windows gets installed & if so you are never gonna win. OR borrow/buy another hard drive, partition/format & see if you get an error. My bet!! Hard drive bad sectors before cyl 1024, the critical area for the OS. What logic? Cuz you stated the same errors occured no matter what OS you tried to install, & at the same location!

 

You can pretty much eliminate the CPU by using a working 98 box to make a startup disk for it and seeing if it boots from the floppy. If it does, the processor is okay.

The disk also includes Scandisk in its debugging files. Run it in thorough mode and it should at least let you know if the drive is riding into the sunset.

 

i ran a surface scan and there were no bad sectors, the drive is fairly new.

i hav another good video card, but I'm not sure if i want to stick it in this machine, is it possible for the mother board to damage my good video card if i test it??

 

You did a Thorough surface scan, takes 'bout 1/2 to 1 hr in dos?
The video card should be pci so we can isolate agp slot prob, but if this is all ya got the mainboard wont hurt it....good luck. Gee Whiz we are running outa rymes&reasons, eh? If this don't work we have ta look at the partition & the bios settings

 

i put a pci video card in, same problem

 

vxd

Could you do us a favor, what mainboard is this? Is there any chance a friend could loan you another hard drive? Even an old ata/33 would do. If so run the clean install (partition & format) and then we would have an answer, eh?

 

thnx,
K7T turbo, via chipset

I've tried other hard drives, clean formatted ect..

 

vxd

Ah ha, that's an MSI mainboard. Betcha someone tried to update the auto bios/drivers feature rite here http://www.msicomputer.com/

 

thnx,

 

I now get a "windows protection error must restart" on a black screen, everytime i try to install windows.