Weird Explorer Crashs

[exatreide]

I dunno what happend, but know when ever i middle click on a window in IE i get a explorer has a caused a fatel error at GDI.exe and must bla bla bla bla, but it also keeps crashing randomly every few pages, what should i do?

[gryphon]

Sorry, forgot which Windows versio you have .. thought it was '98 or XP ? [ think GDI.exe indicates '98 ? ]

And which version of IE are you using ?

last ;) do you have a printer installed ?

And just qurious, is it warm over there in your room ?

[exatreide]

yea Win 98

and yea i do.

[gryphon]

Maby this could help ...

Checking you printer drivers and mayby updating them could also help. And there is an article over at Microsoft indicating that SDI and another programm could crash Windows while your are printing and you CPU is to hot. [ sounds weird I know ]

I'm nor shure if the topic I linked to a few lines above has the solution, although giving it a try can't do much harm I guess ...

[exatreide]

alright, this is freaking me now.

ok i couldnt play my music becouse it wasnt decting my other hard drive, now i re booted, set it to auto dectet and now i get this

XPLORER caused an invalid page fault in

module GDI.EXE at 0004:00000f4a.

Registers:

EAX=00000000 CS=04af EIP=00000f4a EFLGS=00000213

EBX=00000000 SS=4c3f ESP=0000b66c EBP=0000b6ba

ECX=03b7b6ff DS=0607 ESI=0000f2d2 FS=4c3f

EDX=033735e0 ES=4c3f EDI=0000fae2 GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07

Stack dump:

00001c59 35e00000 b6ff0337 40000000 b7040002 f2d24c3f 009bb75c f2d20607 0029001a 01f00000 00000000 0000b6ac 00220000 009b001e 009c0062 00000000

when ever i try to open my computer

and when i disabled my other HD, the mouse errors stoped.

I have them both set on auto decet in the BIOS thing, did i put them on the wrong setting or something?

[Terror]

hmm, i kinda remember that file, however i can't remember where it was related to at that moment, perhaps i can find something on the inet

what Internet Explorer do you have? If you have 5, i suggest that you download 6.0 or something as it seems that most if not all IE problems related to the GDI.exe file (there are multiple problems) occur on systems with IE 5.0 .

Besides, it's never a bad idea to get a new Internet Explorer.

[exatreide]

i got 6.0, ok i set both hard drives to LBA(what ever the f*** that is!)And it seems to be working now, just to be safe i did the IE repair thingy

[gryphon]

k, if it happends again let us know. And if we should find anything related you'll find it here :)

btw. in your BIOS, did you just set the Hard disk detection to auto or also the mode at the end of the same line ?

Is active desktop enabled on your PC ?

You can find it while lift-click on your desktop and it will be in one of the Tabs there.

[gryphon]

made a new post of it as it will show up as new that way and I'm not shure if you already have looked at the previous post.

Win98 had a feature called sfc, just run it from start-run and then let it scan for any damaged files on your PC. If it find any damaged or missing repair or replace them.

It could help. :)

[exatreide]

ok thx

[Nyarlathotep]

LBA is BIOS support for lager harddrives for older systems. I doubt your system needs it. I haven't seen that option enabled since Win 95.

Usually Auto should do the trick.