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From: daleb@daleb.demon.co.uk (Dale Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: HELP: MACHINE CRASHES
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:02:44 GMT
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I have   a problem when running unders WINDOWS 95 , and also under DOS


I get this fault and the machine locks up:


This program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down.

' A FAULT HAS OCCURED , INVALID PAGE FAULT(or GENERAL PROTECTION 

FAULT) in module KERNEL32.DLL.

It then lists various registers, buffers and stacks.

REGISTERS:

EAX= various HEX No's	CS=  various HEX No's	EIP various HEX No's
EFLGS
EBX	"	"	SS	"	"	ESP	"	"
EBP
ECX	"	"	DS	"	"	ESI	"	"
FS
EDX	"	"	ES	"	"	EDI	"	"
GS

Bytes at CS:EIP

5e8be55dc2100064al 00 00 00 00 55 8b ec


STACK DUMP:

1C00AD28	C00000005  etc...........

Then i have to close the program down, this also happens under DOS
games.

Machine Spec:

p120
16meg edo RAM
1.2gb HDD
6X CD
2MG D STEALTH
TV TUNER CARD
28.8 INT
AWE32

PLEASE HELP.


DALE BROWN