Toshiba tecra fault

[Stujw70]

Hi all
Just got myself a Tecra 8000 laptop and starts up and then grinds to a halt with an explorer fault.

Invalid page fault MSHTML.DLL at 0167:636d0376

Does this mean anything to any of you please?

The laptop does not have any saved on it so i can do a clean reinstall of windows 98 if needed. Don't know how to mind you.

Thanks in advance

Stu

 

[turbine_2]

Wipe and re-start. I had something like this on someone's machine that was as a result of a virus. Took me hours and a lot of work to fix.

 

[Stujw70]

Laptop fault

I thought that might well be the option to follow, but don't know how to go about it really.

Once the fault comes up even using the start menu i cant get to control panel to do anything.

Did the whole esc button thing to bring up ms-dos but just did'nt want to any further.

The other option is just take the opportunity to get a new hard disc and move up from the present 10gb. And just stick the win 98 on that.



Thanks

Stu

 

[turbine_2]

Other thing I'd do is move away from Win98, although you may have issues running something like 2000 on that spec.
Sadly it's just too easy to infect a 98 machine now.

 

[centaur]

Other thing I'd do is move away from Win98, although you may have issues running something like 2000 on that spec.
Sadly it's just too easy to infect a 98 machine now.

Er, actually, it's much more likely that any other Windoze OS will get hit with a virus since far more effort is directed at doing so. W98 (and I used it until a few months ago ) is generally pretty stable, and like any other Win OS, only needs a good Antivirus/trojan and a decent firewall to prevent the vast majority of 'exploits'.

Nevertheless, I'm quite happy with XP which I currently use....along with a router with hardware firewall and AVG (free) and Spybot S & D (also free).

 

[turbine_2]

I guess experience varies. I know that I've only ever suffered virii / trojan problems on 98/ME based machines in the past.

 

[centaur]

Hi all
Just got myself a Tecra 8000 laptop and starts up and then grinds to a halt with an explorer fault.

Invalid page fault MSHTML.DLL at 0167:636d0376

Does this mean anything to any of you please?

The laptop does not have any saved on it so i can do a clean reinstall of windows 98 if needed. Don't know how to mind you.

Thanks in advance

Stu

Since nothing has been stored on your 'puter, I agree with Turbine2....load the OS disk and boot from that. Once started, follow the instructions to reformat and reload W98. Good luck !