Troubleshoot Windows Fatal Exception errors




Windows 95 has an annoying "feature": recurring "Fatal Exception 0E" errors occur when the PC boots up. We get the errors sporadically on several of our systems, but they don't go away even when we reinstall Windows. I've tried applying every patch supplied by Microsoft, but nothing helps. I've even swapped system memory to rule out bad SIMMs, to no avail. Is there anything else I can do?
- Craig Smith


Fatal exception errors are Windows 95's way of preventing programs or drivers from performing operations in the PC's processor that aren't allowed or will destroy data. The source of the problem could be a buggy driver or program, faulty memory or a bug in Windows 95.
Trying to run memory with the wrong BIOS wait-state settings can also generate such errors. To rule out this possibility, go into your system's CMOS setup program and choose the default wait-state settings, or experiment with different settings.

Figure 1: Microsoft's Knowledgebase tells you how to find and eliminate Fatal Exception errors

Microsoft has documented numerous Fatal Exception error problems and solutions in its online Knowledgebase.
To read a specific Knowledgebase document, go to www.microsoft.com/kb, select Windows 95 from the list in step 1, select Search for a specific article ID in step 3, enter the document's number in the search field of step 5, then click Begin Search. If your problem isn't listed in the Knowledgebase, read document Q136337, an extensive step-by-step troubleshooting guide to Windows 95 start-up problems, including the Fatal Exception errors.
- Scott Spanbauer


Category: Win95
Issue: Sep 1997
Pages: 164

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