A deadly blue screen sends my computer to hell but dont know what it says Take a Look!

[Varborta]

Everytime I got this blue screen it would sent my computer to hell and start all the freeze work. But leave my mouse alive.

The blue screen says
a fatal exception OE has occcured at 0028:C000BDB9 IN VXD VMM(01)+0000ADB9

In addition, do you know what part of computer cause all this freezes but not freeze the mouse? I doubt its cpu and ram but might be others.

My platform
win98se
IE5 with sp2
Directx8a
Geforce2 GTS tried with all different kinds of driver nothing solved the problem.
AMD thunderbird 800
MSI K7tpro
curcial 128meg 133 cas2


Appreciate for any help.

 

[DaveJ]

Oh man... we spent about SIX MONTHS trying to track down this exact same error at work... machines would get it on shutdown, no matter what we did. A few things to check:

Old or outdated video drivers - Make sure you're running the most stable ones for your vid card.

Software conflicts - This was a big one for us... we'd take one thing out of startup, the error would disappear, only to resurface a day or so later. Make sure you're running the minimum amount of stuff you need, preferably close to nothing.

If you have Office2K, disable MDM, more info can be found here.

In the end we found our systems management software (Microsoft SMS) was causing the conflict, but I'd guess in your case that it might be the video drivers. What are you doing when you get the BSOD? Anything video intensive?

Dave

 

[Varborta]

Thank god, you had the same problem I was so desperately to post this one but had little hope of getting any results.
First,Thanks for your input.


Video card driver?
This is my previous post and in fact it was before I discover that maybe this screen has more to do than my Geforce2 GTS nVidia ref driver. ( I tried all kinds of driver)

previous post
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=375548
and how do you go about SMS problem? Maybe it landed on me too. I guess thats a special Microsoft software nevermind that.
thanks again

 

[Varborta]

I dont have mdm.exe listed under startup

 

[enginjon]

What brand and specs does is your power supply. Possible power problem. Also could be software related, when was the last time you formatted and started from scratch?

 

[gooseman]

I don't know much but I do know that the VMM in the error message stands for virtual memory. Do you have it set for a particular size or are you letting windows manage it? Try letting windows manage it if its not set that way or set the min and max to 2 x the amount of memory you have. You might also try upgrading to the latest via agp driver. Hope this helps.

 

[Varborta]

The last time I formated was 6 monthes ago.
It was all working very fine and speedy, well now its still speed but not fine.

My power supply brand is L&C technology and it is 300watts of power

Virtual memory I see, hum, I use cacheman to do the trick. I am going to upgrading it to the 4.1 now hopefully it would fix it.

My added info from previous posts where I thought the problem originated

My computer has problem with the nVidia ref driver I have a geforce2 GTS oem board. It cant take the driver, it only takes 16color with 640*480 resolution. And, whenever I turn it up any higher like 800*600 which thats when nVidia driver kicks in then computer would go blank after restart or if I just crank it up there it would eventually freeze BUT, the mouse still alive.
I've tried all kinds of driver
I have directx 8a
tried
6.5
6.72
10.50
10.80
7.52
6.49
I also changed the monitor to plug and play monitor and it still doesnt help. My monitor is viewsonic e-771
all of them came up the same result everytime I set it to desire color and resolution(actually I tried couple different resoution or color) and the window tells me to restart the computer and upon going into the normal window mode it just turn the monitor blank.


Following is my setting
win98se
Directx8a
T-bird 800
MSI K7tpro
Geforce2 GTS
Crucial Ram 128meg 133 cas2
Viewsonic E-771 monitor

 

[gooseman]

good luck, hope it works for you. Those BSOD's suck.

 

[PhobiuS]

Okey dude, i know what can help U!
Go to www.geforcefaq.com and check out what they say. I have encounted this problem before and it in my case the Geforce card whas the cause. On GeForceFAq.com U can find windows reg. files that can help U!

 

[DARRIN]

I've had this problem before and reinstalled windows and it went away. Give it a try if none of the above comments work. It only takes 20-30 minutes and you won't loose anything.

 

[Varborta]

Also, I just changed from cacheman 3.8 to 4.1 the latest one and use the setting of win98 small rams, because my old setting is probably the one cause the problem.
My old one is the recommanded setting from major web sites
I have 128meg ram cas2

old setting
min. disk cache 16384
max disk cache 32768
chunk size 2048
name cache 677
directory cache 32


New one - Low memory setting(default)
min. disk cache 2048
max. disk cache 7168
chunk 512 disable
name cache 2000
path cache 32

 

[Varborta]

Good news its now finally fixed

my computer no longer doing it.

I pinpoint the problem down to the memory manage problem.
Or, my previous cacheman is working unproperly

And, also my via driver got crashed too so I updated with the latest one.

With those two been done, and got my computer fixed!

Thanks for all your help.