Another Fatal Exception VXD VMM(01)

[Tezdread]

Hi I was going to post it along with the other fatal exception problem that looks similar but noticed that those problems seemed to be all on AMD machines and mine is on a Pentium 3 machine.

This is the blue screen:
A fatal exception 0E has occured at 0028:c006EB2 in VXD VMM(01) + 0005EB2. The current application will be terminated.

I presume this error is directly linked to the graphics card as I get this errror when I do a 3D rendering test and AGP rendering test using Direct X 8a and also when I try and run Half Life and other similar games.

What I've done: Completly formated the drive that is effected and re-installed Win98 SE downloaded and installed the lastest version of Direct X 8a downloaded and installed the latest drivers for my graphics card.

Specs: PIII 500 128mb RAM, Creative TNT 32mb RAM, 2 HDD's with a dual boot Win2k/Win98 SE, Win98 SE is just for running games.

I did have Win ME installed and thought that it might be ME that was causing the problems so un-installed it but was still getting the same problem, so formatted the drive and stated again. But no joy.

It seems to be working fine in Win2k (might need different drivers for Win98)

I am waiting to see if creative have a solution and open to suggestions from any one that might have any.

Thanks.

 

[butchrecon]

I believe it is a bad Video Card. I was getting a similar error on one of my machines. I replaced the AGP card and it was fine after that.

Hope this helps.

 

[gbs3769]

I just got this problem on my machine last night. It happened as I was going picking out a card to send from bluemountainarts.com.

I also do IT work and here at work we have been getting a bunch of OE Exception errors on Machines. Most of them related to websites as well. So far the one thing that proved to work on the machines at work were new network cards.

It just seems like there is a lot of buggy hardware out there right now.

 

[osuman]

It seems there are a lot of solutions to these types of errors. I was getting this error quite frequently and I believe it was/is due to bad RAM. After slowing my RAM from 133 to 100 the problem was drastically reduced. It still occurs maybe twice a month though.

Also, if you've overclocked your machine try it at the regular speed. Justin

Feel free to email me at:
beckham@mailbox.orst.edu

"3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population."

 

[mhughes]

You might try this page and download VXD_Fix

http://www.freepctech.com/articles/articles.php?ArticleId=49

 

[Tezdread]

Thanks for all your replies. Still waiting to hear from creative and still have the problem.

I'll download the VXD fix when I get home and see if that helps.

What is the average life of graphics cards these days? Is it dependent on other issues? My card is about a year old and was fitted in a new system when I bought it so thought even in this 'throw away techno age' it would have more life than this.

Not sure how to check what speed my RAM is running any ideas? I've looked through the BIOS but can't find anything there, haven't removed them yet so I guess they might have it on them?

If it is a new card I need any suggestions? It will need to run new 3D games and around or below £100.

Thanks again.