Simviation Forum - "Fatal Exception" message driving me insane

Jul 27^th, 2004 at 6:44pm

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After a recent sorta-kinda-maybe re-format of our hard drive I get "the Blue Screen of Death" and the warm, fuzzy error message saying (and I quote) " fatal exception 00 has occured at 0028:C0D8C7 in VXD VDD(09) + 0001803" .... ???....This happens with FS2002 and CFS2/3......My son re-formatted the computer before I had time to get the things I usually try to keep moved to either cd or another hard drive.....I have Win98 (not second edition) and an 2.3 Gig processor with a Geforce4 64meg video card......He installed the newest drivers for the Geforce4....Everything else works fine...Just my flight sims have taken a huge hit......Any Ideas????? Cry

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Reply #1 - Jul 27^th, 2004 at 10:05pm

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Zounds! It looks like quite you've had quite a bad problem! I can't say I haven't experienced the BSD myself though Tongue

How much RAM do you have? Have you defragmented lately? It might also be time for a 128mb or 256mb graphics card.

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Reply #2 - Jul 27^th, 2004 at 10:11pm

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The reformat was this last weekend.....512megs of ram and the video card is 64 megs DDR ram and works better than 128 megs SDRAM.....I think I'm screwed.....I truly think its the video drivers.....thanks for the reply...

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Reply #3 - Jul 27^th, 2004 at 10:22pm

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I was talking about DDR cards, I'm assuming you have the disk for your video card so I think you should try installing the drivers from it, they may be older but in some cases they are better. Also you might want to install the latest version of DirectX if you haven't already.

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Reply #4 - Jul 28^th, 2004 at 2:13am

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Thought about the original drivers on the disk-found disk-Friggin dog chewed on it-dog now banished to yard and teenage son banished to bedroom....Have the latest DirectX.....I'm screwed...... Sad

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Reply #5 - Jul 28^th, 2004 at 5:09am

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and teenage son banished to bedroom

My advice: Unbanish your son. Don't blame him, he was onl;y doing his best, and probably trying to please his dad.... I know the feeling! Try the shop that you bought it from for a new disk, or try to download old ones. For example I have old Nvidia drivers on my CD. There very useful.
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Reply #6 - Jul 28^th, 2004 at 12:30pm

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First off uninstall all Nvidia Graphic drivers, then use a program called DriverCleaner to get rid of all traces of old graphic drivers that have been left behind..

Goto the Nividia site and download the official latest detonator drivers. These work fine with GF4 as I have a GF4 and run these drivers.

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Reply #7 - Jul 31^st, 2004 at 2:01pm

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There are heaps of drivers that will work for that video card and not a massive difference between all of them.

You probably have another problem, Like your mainboard drivers not properly installed or installed at all. The AGP Graphics Bus driver is on your mainboard disk, or your restore disk.

Did the banished enthusiast mess around in the BIOS, or did the BIOS return to default settings for some reason? Is your computer running and configuring correctly to it's rated specs?

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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