recurring fatal exception even after reinstallation of windows and the games that apparently are causing the crash - help?

Hi all,

My computer crashed earlier this evening, giving me the blue screen
and the following error:

"A fatal esception 00 has occurred at 0028:C023DB7F in VXD VDD(09) +
00001803. The current application will be terminated."

on reboot I got a windows protection error, rebooted into safe mode,
removed my Nvidia adapter, and reinstalled the video drivers on a new
reboot. (This has worked several times in the past 6 months) It
worked fine with everything except when attempting to play a few
games, specifically Age of Empires and the Half Life games, all of
which have been on this machine for years... after reinstalling the
video drivers several times and each time attempting to start the
games, the system would give me the above message, I thought perhaps
there was some corruption in the windows system stuff.. so ran
scandisk, it did not "fix" anything and I still would crash when
attempting to start the games. All other programs worked fine.

I formated the C: drive and reinstalled windows, and the games..
installation went fine, but when trying once again to initiate the
game, I get the same blue screen and same error..

Is this telling me the video card is bad or is it something else?

Any wisdom appreciated.

thanks,
niteowl

Since installing windows again, I also reinstalled the motherboard
chipset drivers labeled via4in1_443.exe but it made no difference.
this is running win98se. These were the drivers that were offed on
VIA's site.

I tested the DirectX (dxdiag) and on the Display tab, it failed the
Direct 3D test.. I then updated the DirectX to 9.0c, but the result
was the same.

after I reinstall the drivers, the Direct 3D button shows active for
testing, but after the screen goes black getting ready to test it, it
puts me back to the desktop, and after that the option to test the
Direct 3D is greyed out.. ????

I tried an Nvidia FX5200 128M card, but couldn't get it to boot except
to Safe mode, it would just loop back to the bootup sequence after
installing the drivers fresh, so right now have the Nvidia 64M card in
but it will not play the games I was interested in.

I had just updated all the stuff from the Microsoft Update site..
though it was just the GDI update. Didn't seem related to any video
stuff.

just FYI, the mobo is a Via 503+, Nvidia 64M GForce2 MX/MX 400 AGP
card, and had been working fine .. the MX 400 has been on this machine
for about 8 months. All the crashes in the past 6 months have been
corrected by reinstalling the drivers for the video card... in general
when it crashes it simply locks up and requires a hard reboot, it will
usually come back in Safe Mode, where I remove the video adapter from
the Device Manager, and on bootup resinstall the drivers for it, and
it works fine for a time. weeks or months at a time.

These games worked just fine as recently as 2 weeks ago, which was the
last time I had time to play them. I haven't installed any new
programs, only the updates from MS.

The FX5200 was sent to me from my daughter out of a working machine..
only reason she replaced it was for one with more memory. and I don't
have another card to try, I was hoping that one would fix it, but
there seems to be something else wrong.

Is there anything else I can test that may be wrong, or is it a bad
card?

Thanks for any help.

niteowl







On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:19:55 -0500, niteowl
wrote:

Hi all,

My computer crashed earlier this evening, giving me the blue screen
and the following error:

"A fatal esception 00 has occurred at 0028:C023DB7F in VXD VDD(09) +
00001803. The current application will be terminated."

on reboot I got a windows protection error, rebooted into safe mode,
removed my Nvidia adapter, and reinstalled the video drivers on a new
reboot. (This has worked several times in the past 6 months) It
worked fine with everything except when attempting to play a few
games, specifically Age of Empires and the Half Life games, all of
which have been on this machine for years... after reinstalling the
video drivers several times and each time attempting to start the
games, the system would give me the above message, I thought perhaps
there was some corruption in the windows system stuff.. so ran
scandisk, it did not "fix" anything and I still would crash when
attempting to start the games. All other programs worked fine.

I formated the C: drive and reinstalled windows, and the games..
installation went fine, but when trying once again to initiate the
game, I get the same blue screen and same error..

Is this telling me the video card is bad or is it something else?

Any wisdom appreciated.

thanks,
niteowl

It was a bad card.. what I thought was an FX5200 was actually an ATI
Radeon 7500... My daughter had just mailed it in the wrong box..

after installing the right drivers, everything is once again working
perfectly... sometimes the obvious is missed... sorry to take up
your time with these posts....

niteowl


On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 07:24:10 -0500, niteowl
wrote:

Since installing windows again, I also reinstalled the motherboard
chipset drivers labeled via4in1_443.exe but it made no difference.
this is running win98se. These were the drivers that were offed on
VIA's site.

I tested the DirectX (dxdiag) and on the Display tab, it failed the
Direct 3D test.. I then updated the DirectX to 9.0c, but the result
was the same.

after I reinstall the drivers, the Direct 3D button shows active for
testing, but after the screen goes black getting ready to test it, it
puts me back to the desktop, and after that the option to test the
Direct 3D is greyed out.. ????

I tried an Nvidia FX5200 128M card, but couldn't get it to boot except
to Safe mode, it would just loop back to the bootup sequence after
installing the drivers fresh, so right now have the Nvidia 64M card in
but it will not play the games I was interested in.

I had just updated all the stuff from the Microsoft Update site..
though it was just the GDI update. Didn't seem related to any video
stuff.

just FYI, the mobo is a Via 503+, Nvidia 64M GForce2 MX/MX 400 AGP
card, and had been working fine .. the MX 400 has been on this machine
for about 8 months. All the crashes in the past 6 months have been
corrected by reinstalling the drivers for the video card... in general
when it crashes it simply locks up and requires a hard reboot, it will
usually come back in Safe Mode, where I remove the video adapter from
the Device Manager, and on bootup resinstall the drivers for it, and
it works fine for a time. weeks or months at a time.

These games worked just fine as recently as 2 weeks ago, which was the
last time I had time to play them. I haven't installed any new
programs, only the updates from MS.

The FX5200 was sent to me from my daughter out of a working machine..
only reason she replaced it was for one with more memory. and I don't
have another card to try, I was hoping that one would fix it, but
there seems to be something else wrong.

Is there anything else I can test that may be wrong, or is it a bad
card?

Thanks for any help.

niteowl







On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:19:55 -0500, niteowl
wrote:

Hi all,

My computer crashed earlier this evening, giving me the blue screen
and the following error:

"A fatal esception 00 has occurred at 0028:C023DB7F in VXD VDD(09) +
00001803. The current application will be terminated."

on reboot I got a windows protection error, rebooted into safe mode,
removed my Nvidia adapter, and reinstalled the video drivers on a new
reboot. (This has worked several times in the past 6 months) It
worked fine with everything except when attempting to play a few
games, specifically Age of Empires and the Half Life games, all of
which have been on this machine for years... after reinstalling the
video drivers several times and each time attempting to start the
games, the system would give me the above message, I thought perhaps
there was some corruption in the windows system stuff.. so ran
scandisk, it did not "fix" anything and I still would crash when
attempting to start the games. All other programs worked fine.

I formated the C: drive and reinstalled windows, and the games..
installation went fine, but when trying once again to initiate the
game, I get the same blue screen and same error..

Is this telling me the video card is bad or is it something else?

Any wisdom appreciated.

thanks,
niteowl