[xico]

And a black screen. I've got a 98se with 120 GB hard drive that's about 2 years old. I was plugged into Yahoo on a message board and was called away for a couple of hours. When I returned I had a black screen. I had to shut the switch off to re start. Then it did a scan. When I went to OE, I got a brief fatal exception, and then another black screen. OE black screen me a couple of more times until I thought maybe it was OE that was the problem. I went to Yahoo and got a black screen--I get yahoo, but when I click on anything, I get either a black screen or a blue one with A Fatal Exception
OE has occurred at 0028:c0059787 in VXD VMCPD (01) + 00000227 The current app will be terminated. etc.

I went to another site an got Exception EAccess Violation in module SHLWAPI.DLL at 00048AC9 Access violation at address 70AB8AC9 in module SHLWAPI.DLL Read of address 7100A260
etc. etc.

So, while I can connect to the net, I can't hang on. I tried to run HIJack This, but when I go to save the log, I can't call it up in notepad. The program simply keeps saving the log without opening it.

any suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks for whatever info you can supply.

 

[john1]

Hi Xico,

You could try an IE.repair ...

have you downloaded any patches/fixes lately,
i'm told some of these are faulty ...

Regards, John

 

[xico]

Hi John!

Well, Im on the 98 and Im here, but there's still a problem. I tried to do a restore--all 5 times it failed. Dunno why. I didn't try repair, but I did a reinstall that didn't seem to help much either. But this more M$ sent a patch notice, so I clicked on it and I was able to download it--and here I am. Saturday and Sunday I couldn't have gotten this far. Better let this message get sent and start another.

Cheers

Xico

 

[xico]

Hi John!

Seems to be working. Just prior to checking out Techguy I tried Yahoo, but I got the Illegal Operation message, after which Yahoo disappeared. I don't know if I remember how to get to repair. But I'll look for it. Thanks for the info and feedback. I was thinking about uninstalling IE, and then reinstalling it.
Oh, but I had been using Crazy Browser. Hmmm. Both CB and then IE were acting up. Weird. I ran Spybot, Adaware, Regseeker, Defrag, plus trying to restore IE or windoze. I'll have to go back to Yahoo to see if the Illegal Operation comes up again. Have a nice day, and thanks again for the imput.

Xico

 

[john1]

Glad its working for you,
i got minor troubles with I.E. now.

Might have to reinstall ...