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What is a fatal exception error

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by dcs247

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What is a fatal exception "oe has occurred at 0028:c002b797 in vxd ntkern (01) +00009b9b

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by ann777

It means that NTKERN.VXD has been corrupted and the device trying to use it will not function.

What USB devices do you have attached to your computer?

You could try renaming the ntkern.vxd to NTKERN.OLD and then extracting the file from yourWin98 cd-rom.

Or you could try uninstalling your USB device and rebooting, then re-installing without the USB device connected. Then shutdown and connect. Power up and see if the device works now.

by dcs247

Replacing the 3140 olicom NIC resolved my fatal exception error problem. Can anyone explain the cause of this resolution?

by phil.hall

Exception 0E is a Page Fault...Failure to impliment Virtual Memory on demand (not much help there.) But by "replacing" the NIC (as you say) seemed to fix the problem, I bet you got a new NIC of the same type, yes? If that is true, then it's clear that NT was trying to load a driver and the hardware (the NIC) was not responding properly to the initial polling environment. Toss the bad NIC, keep the new one. If the Exception Error happens again, try reloading all the drivers for it.

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