Invalid page faults

[celerii]

My system is as follows:

ABIT KG7 (no raid) Mobo --BIOS 4J
256MB Crucial DDR 266Mhz
AMD Duron 1100Mhz (not oc nor overbussed)
nVIDIA TNT2 M64
OS: W98SE

I experience sporadic invalid page faults when playing CS (OpenGL). Sometimes the application exits gracefully some other times it brings down the whole system (lockup).

I've tried drivers 23.11, 14.11 they don't seem to have effect
I've tried reinstalling Windows by renaming directories (Windows and program files)
I've tried upgrading to the latest HL 1108 that doesn't help

My memory settings are auto (not normal,fast, or turbo)

I have logged the application faults for the past few days here I have:

(I've added some reasoning to why it crashed)

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Date 03/20/2002 Time 21:41
HL caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff7b992.
Registers:
EAX=00000020 CS=017f EIP=bff7b992 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0085a6d0 EBP=0085a6e8
ECX=069a6460 DS=0187 ESI=00000020 FS=351f
EDX=069af0ac ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
80 3e 04 74 0f 33 c0 50 50 50 68 05 00 00 c0 e8
Stack dump:
004dff48 0698ed17 00000020 0698d27d 00000000 004dff48 0085a82c 0696be0c 069af0ac 00000004 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 72747363
(Reason: HL always does this)
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Date 03/21/2002 Time 00:28
WORDPAD caused an invalid page fault in
module RICHED20.DLL at 017f:4801a7d3.
Registers:
EAX=00406d10 CS=017f EIP=4801a7d3 EFLGS=00010293
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0056e464 EBP=0056e478
ECX=fb800000 DS=0187 ESI=0056e5a4 FS=0fcf
EDX=00000000 ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0fd6
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 89 0f 47 0f b7 c9 47 40 8d 59 f6 40 83 fb 03
Stack dump:
00000000 08ffd06e 0056e5f0 0000bfe7 08ffd06e 0056e5c0 48026706 08ffd06e 00000000 047fe837 00000000 00000000 0056f044 00000013 bff7b9c5 81954054
(Reason: I opened an 80MB win386.swp copy using wordpad (juz wanted to see contents))
**********************************************************************
Date 03/21/2002 Time 20:12
HL caused an invalid page fault in
module NVOPENGL.DLL at 017f:695cbf85.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=695cbf85 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=03e99b58 SS=0187 ESP=0085ab8c EBP=00001800
ECX=00000000 DS=0187 ESI=00000280 FS=1287
EDX=00000000 ES=0187 EDI=000001e0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 68 3c 8b 83 00 01 00 00 03 c5 3b c8 7d 02 8b
Stack dump:
00000280 00000000 03e99b58 00000405 00000000 0085037f 695bf666 03e99b58 0085abb8 0085abbc 03e99b58 695a6f5d 695a6f5d 6951e100 03e99b58 0072fa88
(Reason: Mysterious I think the comp autoreset... when this happened)
**********************************************************************
Date 03/23/2002 Time 18:13
HL caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff7b992.
Registers:
EAX=00000020 CS=017f EIP=bff7b992 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0085a5d8 EBP=0085a5f0
ECX=06116460 DS=0187 ESI=00000020 FS=1277
EDX=0611f6ac ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
80 3e 04 74 0f 33 c0 50 50 50 68 05 00 00 c0 e8
Stack dump:
004e30b8 060fed17 00000020 060fd27d 00000000 004e30b8 0085a734 060dbe0c 0611f6ac 00000004 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 72747363
(Reason: HL always does this)
**********************************************************************
Date 03/23/2002 Time 20:45
PROJECT64 caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:65833360.
Registers:
EAX=65833360 CS=017f EIP=65833360 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=006efc5c SS=0187 ESP=006eda68 EBP=006efc08
ECX=001f0001 DS=0187 ESI=00000100 FS=3a8f
EDX=00000053 ES=0187 EDI=006efc10 GS=56d7
Bytes at CS:EIP:

Stack dump:
0040a588 00000053 001f0001 006efc10 00008c80 006efc5c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
(Reason: Well emulators aren't known for stability...)
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Some history:

a few months ago my RAM Chip actually died. Yup it just stopped working even after attempts to reseat it several times. It got replaced.
Weird I thought the KG7 was among the few best mobos and Crucial is a reliable brand.

I'd like to find out the cause of the problem. The comp passes Sandra Mem benchmark for 100 loops without a hitch... It doesn't crash when I play D3D games like NFS5,4 neither during 2d games, browsing (even with many windows open), wordprocessing, or when OS is idle itself.

Any suggestion appreciated.

Thank You.

 

[DaiShan]

first off, thank you for prividing so much information, second, has this always happend? If not could you tell us if you added any new hardware that may have caused it? Do you have anything in the first pci slot? if so try to put it in another slot. have you tried a much earlier version of the dets? (like 21.xx)

 

[celerii]

Well the half-life errors seem to have always happened... ever since I resetup my comp after I got the replacement ram. (I was using another K6 system as a temp system)

The only new hardware I have is a new 40G Maxtor hd running together with 10GHD as slave now. (Previously I only had 10G Hd as master).

I've tried drivers 5.22 but doesn't have antialiasing when playing MPEG, so I switched to 7.58. which suffers from "corrupted icons" problem i.e. sometimes the start button becomes black, the minimize, maximize, and close button also occassionally becomes black. I must say as a TNT2 user it's hard to get the right drivers when the majority seem to be using GeForces.

The other hardware setup has been relatively the same since the first day I bought the system. I don't have anything in PCI1 (next to AGP). I do have SB Live! in PCI2, ethernet in PCI4, and Winmodem in PCI5.

I found out that the address in kernel at 017f:bff7b992 is "sensitive". A search in google for "at 017f:bff7b992" shows me some applications having invalid page fault's there too.

Thank you for your response. In the mean time I'll continue logging and perhaps experiment with several other drivers.

Regards.