Illegal Operation

Windows Protection Faults or sometimes called GPFs(General Protection Faults) are caused mostly by user themselves ,or poorly written programs.
If you have installed a new program try remove the program and see if the problem is still there. Sometimes the users are running lots of programs at a time which causes some programs to try grabbing memory addresses which are occupied by other programs.

Hi,

Usually a General Protection Fault is caused by software referencing memory locations that it shouldn't have access to.

This is built into windows as a level of protection to stop one program from affecting another - either maliciously or accidently...

There is software available to catch this happening and "gracefully" handle it - supposedly without crashing the whole machine. Norton's CrashGuard is fairly popular.

Take a look at the following writeup on it.

http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/utilities99/daig09.html

(remove spaces from the above URL)

Cheers,
Tim.

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