How to get out of this fatal exception error
 

hi everyone
my son has a win98se machine with an S3 video card. because of other
problems that i could not overcome, I installed from scratch ie I
fdisk'd & installed from new and all went ok.
the s3 video card was detected just a std vga adapter which I half expected.

I used the latest set of drivers I had - which also seem to be the
latest set for this particular card anywhere(including the 'net).

During the install, because I wanted to avoid installing any of the
"additional bits" like direct X (for the moment) I took different
options which later on I think caused the install not to function as
smoothly as it should.

Since then I have had fatal exception errors in VX VMM (06) even after I
have de-installed the S3 drivers and gone back to a std vga. So this
looks as if the S3 virtual drivers are still hanging around somewhere
and I need to get rid of them.

I intend trawling the registry (suitably backed up of course) and
removing any S3 entries and deleting any drivers left lying around the disk.

Having then got back to a stable VGA do I intend installing the drivers
again but this time I'll let them go on their way and install the stuff
the routines want to.

Anyone have any other words of advice or short cuts?


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Brush-Head

"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights"

John Paul Getty 1892 - 1976

Your plan seems sound to me. You might want to consider restoring a copy of
the registry that existed before you loaded the S3 drivers. That ought to
get rid of what you want without manually searching the registry. Note that
anything installed since the drivers will also have to be reinstalled.

If this problem is less than five days old, restore a copy of the registry
that predates the onset of the problem and see if that helps. The five-day
limit assumes that the computer is booted every day. If it is not booted
every day, you may have an old enough registry backup that you can use even
though more than five days have elapsed.

On the Start Menu, select Shut Down and Restart in MSDOS Mode. At the
Windows prompt, type: scanreg /restore and hit enter. Once the
registry restore screen appears, select the date of the registry that you
wish to restore by highlighting it and then click enter. If you see a
registry named: Rbbad.cab, that is a copy of the registry that has already
been replaced.
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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98
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hi everyone
my son has a win98se machine with an S3 video card. because of other
problems that i could not overcome, I installed from scratch ie I fdisk'd
& installed from new and all went ok.
the s3 video card was detected just a std vga adapter which I half
expected.

I used the latest set of drivers I had - which also seem to be the latest
set for this particular card anywhere(including the 'net).

During the install, because I wanted to avoid installing any of the
"additional bits" like direct X (for the moment) I took different options
which later on I think caused the install not to function as smoothly as
it should.

Since then I have had fatal exception errors in VX VMM (06) even after I
have de-installed the S3 drivers and gone back to a std vga. So this looks
as if the S3 virtual drivers are still hanging around somewhere and I need
to get rid of them.

I intend trawling the registry (suitably backed up of course) and removing
any S3 entries and deleting any drivers left lying around the disk.

Having then got back to a stable VGA do I intend installing the drivers
again but this time I'll let them go on their way and install the stuff
the routines want to.

Anyone have any other words of advice or short cuts?


--
Brush-Head

"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights"

John Paul Getty 1892 - 1976

Thanks Ron

I think I've now resolved it (10 warm reboots 100 cold and no errors at
all).

It does make you realise how good 2000 & XP are not having had to dabble
too much recently with 98.

Brush-Head

"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights"

John Paul Getty 1892 - 1976

Ron Badour wrote:
Your plan seems sound to me. You might want to consider restoring a copy of
the registry that existed before you loaded the S3 drivers. That ought to
get rid of what you want without manually searching the registry. Note that
anything installed since the drivers will also have to be reinstalled.

If this problem is less than five days old, restore a copy of the registry
that predates the onset of the problem and see if that helps. The five-day
limit assumes that the computer is booted every day. If it is not booted
every day, you may have an old enough registry backup that you can use even
though more than five days have elapsed.

On the Start Menu, select Shut Down and Restart in MSDOS Mode. At the
Windows prompt, type: scanreg /restore and hit enter. Once the
registry restore screen appears, select the date of the registry that you
wish to restore by highlighting it and then click enter. If you see a
registry named: Rbbad.cab, that is a copy of the registry that has already
been replaced.