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What to do about a Page-fault, Illegal operation, or Fatal exception Error

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These errors are usually caused by a bug in software, where two applications (or drivers) try to use the same part of your memory. For the most part, these are intermittent errors, and aside from the annoyance, they can be ignored.

If, however, this is happening frequenty, it can be caused by anything, including bad RAM, buggy drivers, and disk errors (run SCANDISK to correct). The best strategy is to try to figure out how to reproduce the problem, and then contact the manufacturer of the offending product. Write the message down, but keep in mind that all of those numbers (memory addresses) are absolutely useless to you; don't bother recording them unless a technician specifically asks you to do so. See Resolving Hardware Conflicts is you have reason to believe it's hardware related, or check out disk and file corruption for yet another direction.


Written by: Annoyances.org
Last updated: Tuesday, August 28, 2001

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