Fatal exception

Greetings,

Fatal exception error messages are generated when one of the following situations occur.

Access to an illegal software instruction has occurred.

Invalid data or code has been accessed.
The privilege level of an operation is invalid.

When a Fatal exception is encountered the error will be in the following format:

A fatal exception has occurred at xxxx:xxxxxxxx

In the above example of the fatal exception the YZ represents the actual processor exception, this can range from 00 to 0F. Each of theses processor exceptions are explained under Extended information.

After the processor exception is the enhanced instruction pointer to the code segment and the 32-bit address. This is exactly where the error exception has occurred.

Cause:

Fatal exception errors are generally caused by programs incompatibility, not written properly, heat related issues or other hardware / software issues. Because of the wide range of possibilities we have created thisdocument to help determine or resolve your issue.

Resolution: (cut and paste this link)

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000223.htm

The following links may also be helpful:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q200/4/44.ASP

http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/fatal2.html

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q192835

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Good luck,

Maxwell

hi dan,
my assumption is that you are getting this error when trying to install windows? if you are there is a microsoft Knowledge base article which you will want to consult. to sum it up it states that this happens when you try and run setup from the hard drive after copying the cab files to the hard drive
you may be able to install from the cdrom or there is a download availble to copy into the cab folder on the hard drive which will allow it to install correctly the article is MSKB Q209321 located (hopefully this will work) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q209321

good luck!