BIG system error messages W98SE

[philgood 0]

My problem is that when i try to access the Control panel through the START -> SETTINGS menu i get following type of message:

 

(i can't be 100% exact because i have to translate the message from spanish)

 

Explorer caused an invalid page error in the module SHELL32.DLL at 0167:7fceede7.

 

Registries:

 

EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=7fceede7 EFLGS=00010246

EBX=825dfb90 SS=016f ESP=00d2edec EBP=00d2eelc

ECX=825ddb50 DS=016f ESI=bff772be FS=0d8f

EDX=00000001 ES=016f EDI=00000001 GS=0000

 

Bytes at CS:EIP:

,02x,...(14x)...,02x

 

Volcado de pila(? sorry can't translate that):

,08x,...(14x)...,08x

 

I can't configurate any settings in the control panel because it doesn't come up.

 

Another message that i got was when i tried to open an installer from a CD:

 

SETUP caused an invalid page error in the module KRNL386.EXE at 0002:00007bf8

 

Registries:

 

EAX=0003015f CS=014f EIP=00007bf8 EFLGS=00000286

EBX=00008594 SS=2b6f ESP=00008576 EBP=0000858a

ECX=00019408 DS=016f ESI=004c0000 FS=0000

EDX=00000003 ES=016f EDI=806d6cf0 GS=0000

 

Bytes at CS:EIP:

 

,02x,...(14x)...,02x

 

Volcado de pila:

 

,08x,...(14x)...,08x

 

 

 

 

thank you.

 

Philgood

[Wilhelmus 1]

Buenos dias.

 

Can you access the control panel in safe mode?

(When Windows is loading, press F8 and select Safe mode from list)

 

Also, see this Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: "How to Troubleshoot Control Panel Issues in Windows"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=299923

 

[Sampson 0]

Are you running an Nvidia video card on your machine? Did you recently upgrade the drivers? With some international language OS's fonts are not always represented correctly if you installed the Nvidia drivers for English only.

 

The other problem could be heat. Either the CPU is not being cooled correctly or the memory is overheating.

[philgood 0]

@ Wilhelmus

 

Thank you for the warm hello. It's really a friendly forum. I love it.

 

Actually the hint of starting windows in safe mode is worth a try. I forgot about that option. Will have to try it as soon as i can because it's a friend's computer i don't have at hand.

 

@ Sampson

 

I also thought in an incompatibility with the graphic card because there are similiar despriptions of that problem floating around the net. It's a RIVA TNT2 M64 at a PM-BN790T motherboard.

 

Thanks for help.

 

Phil

[philgood 0]

Finally i could try some things out today.

 

After i read the Microsoft article http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=299923

i tried to find any control panel which could cause the symptoms. I localized the NVIDIA(?) control panel (I thought the RIVA TNT2 was a non-nvidia-based card, well...) as the troublemaker and followed the advise to temporaly rename the extension name of the file.It fixed the problem but i'm getting redraw(?) errors under DirectDraw diagnose. So i think i will finally try to install XP instead of 98SE.The hardware is mostly from year 2002 so i think it could need a "appropriate" system software. Thanks anyway for your help, guys. At the end it was just ANOTHER NVIDIA card problem ;-)

 

Phil