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re: Illegal operation
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 at 10:13 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brandon Chapman
(1 messages posted)
I hate to join the "cop-out" answer bandwagon of upgrading to Windows 2000 or XP,
but Antoni is right. 2000 and XP is much more stable than this, and you can spend
all day trying to troubleshoot the numerous Illegal Operations that can happen in
Windows 9x, or you could spend a bit of cash, upgrade, and rest easy as the chances
of Illegal Operations happening (or its equivalent in 2K/XP: " has
encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.")
is cut down by almost 90%.
Also, Microsoft no longer supports Windows 98. Their support for Windows 98 ended
two months ago (December 2003), and newer programs, games, and whatnot will not be
compatible with Windows 98.
On Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 5:37 pm, Michael wrote:
>Have you tried moving the NIC (Network card) to another slot? Be sure to remove
it
>from the control panel "system" icon before you do so.
>Also, you might just want to yank one of your Memory SIMMs and try again.
>If you can boot dos by using the F8 key during the boot and get the C: drive, you
>can goto the Windows folder (directory) then modify your system.ini file: look for
>the shell=explorer.exe change the "explorer.exe" to "winfile.exe". Reboot the PC,
>if it starts fine (although looks like Windows 3.11) I'd say your memory is ok.
Dont'
>forget to change the shell= line back to explorer.exe before you move on to other
>testing.
>Note: I have seen a "semi-faulty" CPU cause this error.
>
- Written in response to:
- re: Illegal operation (Michael: Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 5:37 pm)
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