>Not sure if this is appropriate here, but I have recently had a very 
>similar problem to Trev's, except as follows:
>
>Windows 98 (NOT second edition) 256Mb RAM.
>Boot computer either in full windows or safe mode.
>As soon as the desktop (background) screen shows up and the 
>mouse arrow comes alive, the startup wave file plays okay, but
>less than 1 second passes and I get "Explorer caused an invalid
>page fault in kernel32.dll at 015f:bff711be" with nothing else
>on the screen.  No taskbar, no start box, NOTHING.  I am able
>to shutdown by CTRL-ALT-DEL and selecting shutdown, although 
>it does take considerably longer than normal.  
>
>This symptom is the same for both normal boot and safemode,
>with the only screen difference being the "safemode" boxes
>in each corner during safemode boot.  
>
>What I have done:
>
>- scandisk thorough
>- defrag
>- scanreg /fix
>- scanreg /restore (to a working copy of the reg)
>- deleted all the "pwl" files
>- deleted the win386.swp file 
>all from safe mode command prompt.
>
>I have editted the system.ini file and changed the line
>"shell=explorer.exe" to "shell=winfile.exe" to see if the
>the GUI would run with the filemanager instead of the
>explorer.  Okay!  
>Upon exit of filemanager, windows dutifully shutdown,
>albeit somewhat slower than normal.
>
>I have also done a selective startup by confirming each
>startup option and watching all responses.  I have also
>done the same thing as safemode boot by only selecting
>HIMEM and nothing else with the same symptoms.
>
>Also have tested the memory chips and hard drive,
>system board and i/o controller.
>
>I have read just about every single web page regarding "015f"
>and "explorer caused ... kernel32.dll" and tried everything that
>I have read but with no success.  
>
>Getting very close to replacing the "98" explorer with "95" and
>seeing if it will at least boot. 
>
>Relunctantly getting close to a new install to Win98-SE but I
>am afraid I will lose everything on the machine.
>
>Just cannot get it to work!  Am I chasing a ghost or is this
>problem correctable?  Help greatly appreciated.
>
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re: Invalid Page Fault (Ed Xavier: Sunday, March 2, 2003 at 1:39 am)


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