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Does anyone have any input on this?
Removed & replaced all cards, memory, power supply, cdrom, floppy. Moved PC to different location, with Windows 98, 128ram, and tried to reinstall windows with same fatal exception each time. Tested the mainboard with AMIDIAG, passed all.

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by maxwell edison

Greetings,

Fatal exception errors are codes that are returned by a program in the following cases:

Access to an illegal instruction has been encountered.

Invalid data or code has been accessed.

The privilege level of an operation is invalid.

When any of these cases occurs, the processor returns an exception to the operating system, which in turn is handled as a fatal exception error. In many cases the exception is non-recoverable and the system must either be restarted or shut down, depending upon the severity of the error.

Windows does not cause these errors, but has the exception-handling routine for that particular processor exception, which displays the error message.

Cut and paste these links for help decoding the error and determining the best resolution. REMOVE SPACES if they snuck into the pasted URLs.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q150/3/14.asp

http://www.getodd.com/fun/cmptr/fatlerr/fatlerr.html

http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/fatlexer.htm

(The first one is probably the most useful.)

Good luck,

Maxwell

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