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by cliveoates

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A Win98 compaq deskpro pc keeps on rebooting even after I have formatted the HDD and re-installed the same OS. I am sure that it's a hardware problem, but the problem is that I do not know which hardware. Here's the error msg that comes up every time before it restarts:

"An exception 0E has occured at 0028:C14398C0 in VxD. This was called from 0028:C001C494 in VxD NDIS (01) + 00004920. It may be possible to continue normally".
". Press any key to continue, or"
". Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart."

Any ideas? pls help!!

Cheers

Clive

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by thechas

VXD related problems are often bad or incompatible RAM modules.

Try removing the RAM and cleaning the dust from the sockets and DIMMs.

I personally have not had any luck repairing missing or damaged VXD files.
I usually end up cleaning out the VXD files from the System32 folders and installing Windows again.

Chas

by valis

negative, vxd refers to video card drivers, make sure the latest version is installed

by lmon

This is from webopedia:

Found in Windows 9x machines, VMM32.vxd is the virtual device driver library that contains virtual device driver files needed for system start up.

VMM32.vxd is different for every machine; therefore, if it gets corrupted, it cannot be copied from another computer; it'll need to be rebuilt.

www.pcbugdoctor.com
Try this site and see if it will fix.

by mmackie esq.

Clive, its neither the HDD or the OS "VXD" refers to the video card. Check if your video card driver is the latest version - if not visit your manufacturers website and update , i had a similar problem recently when i tried to run Call Of Duty... I updated my driver and everything, and she's apples

by otl

Per Microsoft;

Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), so if you have a NIC (Network Interface Card [eathernet card]) I would remove it and try booting.

Also try booting into safe mode and remove the network adapters (copy setting to a file first), this will cause Windows to reload drivers for the hardware on the next boot up.

Although this is for ME found it listed under '98.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;261766&Product=w98

by wlbowers

Possible problems:

Bad Memory ,or as said, dirty connectors.
Hard drive going bad.
Power Supply going bad.

Boot to a floppy that has a diagnostic program on it. Test the memory and system components.

I use The Troubleshooter.
http://tinyurl.com/6dagr

Download the test software from the hard drive manufacturer and test the hard drive.

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

Maxtor/Quantum
http://tinyurl.com/ie1h

Hitachi/IBM
http://tinyurl.com/6mtf8

Fujitsu
http://tinyurl.com/3jpcl

Good Luck Lee

by wlbowers

By the way, some of you need to read up on the subject.

vxd is the file extention of a virtual device driver. It replaced TSR's. They allow functions to be performed that cannot be done via normal application communication with Windows.

http://tinyurl.com/4sol7

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