For the last few months, every time I switch on my computer, a message comes up on the desktop saying, "You have made an illegal operation, the system will be shut down." In the Details box, it says simply (sorry, I'm using a Japanese computer so this is an ad lib English translation), "unspecified page error", along with a maze of numbers and words like "Stack Dump" that mean nothing to me. If I open My Computer or something, then click "Shutdown", the box closes and I can go on, but it's annoying and makes me wonder what I did to start this happening. If anyone out there has any suggestions as to the possible cause of this problem and ways to solve it, I'd be grateful.

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Phil:  a few things to try;
1. slim down your Startup folder to only: systray, scanreg, antivirus, firewall and 
mouse.
2. add the following line to your System.ini file, [386Enh] section:
                   MinSPs=8
3. in your Config.sys file, add the following, each on its own line:
                   STACKS=64,512
                   FILES=60
                   BUFFERS=40
then Restart.
4. see the link below (after your text) for some more tweaks.
Post back this page if that doesn't help and we will search some more.  Any reference 
to a module, file or program would be helpful, if available.





On Monday, March 4, 2002 at 9:30 pm, Phil Billingsley wrote:
>For the last few months, every time I switch on my computer, a message comes up 
on 
>the desktop saying, "You have made an illegal operation, the system will be shut 
>down." In the Details box, it says simply (sorry, I'm using a Japanese computer 
so 
>this is an ad lib English translation), "unspecified page error", along with a maze 
>of numbers and words like "Stack Dump" that mean nothing to me. If I open My Computer 
>or something, then click "Shutdown", the box closes and I can go on, but it's annoying 
>and makes me wonder what I did to start this happening. If anyone out there has 
any 
>suggestions as to the possible cause of this problem and ways to solve it, I'd be 
>grateful.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q145799

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