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pja   01-30-2003 at 10:40:20 AM

Help...I get the following upon boot in Win 95:
A Fatal exception OD has occurred at 0028:C008CC88 IN VXD FWDRV(01) +00015BDO
The cuurrent application will be terminated :
*Press any key to terminate the current application (DOESN'T WORK)
*Press CTRL + ALT + DEL again to restart your computer.(DONESN'T WORK)
I can't get away from that screen....computer is just hung up there. I have to shut the system down and upon swithing the laptop on.. above problem happens again. I have tried to press F8 & F10 after startup without any luck to try and get into safemode. This problem occurred after I tried to install a new piece of software..a firewall.
Please help!!!

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jlanka   01-30-2003 at 11:00:50 AM
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maybe boot off a boot floppy, and rename the file fwdrv.vxd? It sounds pretty messed up if you can't get into safe mode (are you sure you're hitting F8 early enough?) so good luck.

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Crashman   01-31-2003 at 09:35:10 AM
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Grrr, it corrupted your registry. Best bet is to save files in DOS mode to a different drive, and reload.

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jlanka   01-31-2003 at 11:28:44 AM
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(Question meant for original poster, not Crash):

one other piece of info - apparently fwdrv.vxd is part of the product "Tiny Personal Firewall" - did you install that recently?


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