re: Illegal operation
Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 1:19 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by qwerty
(4 messages posted)
Ditch windows 98 cos i have dual booted 98 and XP (so that i can still run my old
dos games). Although my computer works perfectly on XP, win 98 gives me like 30 illegal
operations when i try to shut down or do pretty much anything on it. I would suggest
either format your windows 98 drive or switch to XP, as theres something gone messed
up in the windows folder (and its not worth the hassle to find out what).
Viruses do not cause the illegal operation, as i have ran virus scans etc when i
kept getting those messages and nothing was found (even on norton 2004). Windows
98 also has a horrid support for systems with 512MB ram or higher and you will just
get constant memory leaks with that too (going by experiance on my Advent 3316).
On Wednesday, February 25, 2004 at 10:13 am, Brandon Chapman wrote:
>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.
>>
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- re: Illegal operation (Brandon Chapman: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 at 10:13 am)
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