Hello, I've been visiting this forum for a long time and have greatly appreciated all the knowledge and help available here. A couple of times in the past two or three weeks while browsing websites, I've received a BSOD with the following message: "An exception of OE occurred at 0028:C16857CA in VXD AFVXD (01)+ 0000164A. This was called from 0028:C18440A4 in VXD PPP MAC(04)+ 00007B14. It may be possible to continue...etc..." I did ctrl+alt+del and restarted without a hitch. I haven't had any other problems, haven't installed anything new lately... I'm just wondering what/where exactly this is coming from? I'm running Win98se... Thanks a lot!
0E is the hex expression for the number we express as "14" in the decimal system (trivia). The error number refers to a memory conflict. You have a driver asking for memory that it needs but can't have. Update drivers for any devices that were running when you got the messages, but don't fret too much unless the frequency of errors increases.
TeLo, thanks for the welcome and the link...I usually end up even more confused after wading through the Microsoft Support site, but this direct link helped a lot! SteveYandl,the technical aspect of this whole computer thing goes way over my head, so needless to say, the hex info was beyond me ...but I will look into seeing what's new in the way of driver updates for my system! Thanks again...
Start documenting the exact error message, each time it happens. If if shows up "all over the place," the only cure is a clean install of Win98SE. I had many blue & sometimes black BSOD's and tried this and that. The fix was a clean install.
For now, do some basic maintenence tasks, delete internet cache and other temp files. Run a scandisk and defrag. Run SFC; but if you don't normally run SFC before any new software installation and then after, you will have a mess of things to try and figure out.
If you don't know how to back up your data and save many of your settings, ask and someone will help. You may have hit a "glitch" and will never see that error message again. But, if the problem gets worse...
Marti, I do the temp clean-up, scandisk, defrag, etc.. on a weekly basis. I haven't experienced any other problems, so I'm hoping that it was indeed just a "glitch"... I'd hate to have to do a clean install soon! Thank you for your reply...
As Steve explained, an OE exception is caused by more than one device or program attempting to access the same block of memory at the same time. Routine disk maintenance will not help solve the situation.
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