fatal exception error

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I get this on win98se when connecting to my dialup provider:

0028:c004a9de vxd vfat(1) 00009486

Everything freezes, keyboard and mouse, and I have to restart the computer.
Any ideas of the cause?

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It only happens when connecting to your dialup provider? Was that just
installed? If not, was anything just installed? Is this happening at
boot?

http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/vfat.htm
A number of VFAT articles.

Here is the one/only to come up at
http://search.support.microsoft.co [...] N&LN=EN-US MSKB
Search "VxD VFAT(01)"; Windows 98; Full Text; Exact Phrase.

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] roduct=w98
Fatal Exception 0E with Multiple MS-DOS Device Names in Path
(256015) - If the last two or more components in a path match MS-DOS
device names, you may receive an error message on a blue screen similar
to the following example: A fatal exception 0E has occurred at (address)
in VXD (FSD) + (address). The current...


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| I get this on win98se when connecting to my dialup provider:
|
| 0028:c004a9de vxd vfat(1) 00009486
|
| Everything freezes, keyboard and mouse, and I have to restart the
computer.
| Any ideas of the cause?