Illegal Operation

[jiminee]

I am running windows 98se and i recently upgraded my ram from 32/66 to 128/100. It posted the new memory and ran fine for 30 minutes then it locked up once and after rebooting i was getting the Illegal operation message

explorer caused an invalid page fault in module wininet at 0167:702134cc

fault Msimn comct32.dll 0166:bfb78fcb

fault Kernel 32.dll at 0167:bff88ecc
any Ideas?

P.S. I ran the repair faulty files in ms explorer after the first fault

 

[Rollin' Rog]

Welcome to TSG, jiminee.

Have you recently installed any new programs prior to receiving the errors?

Did you run the IE Repair Tool in Add/Remove Programs > Internet Explorer > Remove > Repair? And did it complete without any problems? What did it report?

It might help for us to see a post of your current startups. You can show that by downloading, unzipping and running the StartupList application from the site below. Then copy/paste the results to a reply here.

http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/

 

[jiminee]

Rollin' Rog thanks for replying

No new programs install, but i did upgrade my memory and i think its mismatched

I ran IE repair and no problems were found
I tried downloading from the site that was attached but it seems as if there was a file missing. Iam still trying to download that complete application.

I have reinstalled my old memory and error messages have disappeared.

Thanks Jiminee

 

[Rollin' Rog]

Well it sure sounds like the ram was the culprit then.

Remember you will need a ZIP program to unzip files with a .zip extension

And if you don't use the right click "save target as" method of downloading you get a "program.exe" or other type missing file message if windows tries to open it automatically (it doesn't know what to use)

The download is very short and only takes a second or two.

If you don't have Winzip, you can get the "evaluation" version here. It does not expire.

http://www.winzip.com/download.cgi?home