RUNDLL32 CRASHES ON STARTUP !

[Penang]

I am running a Win98SE machine. RAM=256MB.

On startup, even without having any user-app loaded, RUNDLL32 crashes
(in technical terms, "causes an invalid page fault") !

Here's the error:

RUNDLL32 caused an invalid page fault in
module RUNDLL32.EXE at 017f:0040104f.
Registers:
EAX=004002c1 CS=017f EIP=0040104f EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0063fdf0 EBP=0063fe38
ECX=c0038442 DS=0000 ESI=004002d3 FS=19f7
EDX=c0034adf ES=0000 EDI=fda553eb GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 15 c8 30 40 00 8b f0 8a 00 3c 22 75 13 46 8a
Stack dump:
004002d3 bffc9490 0063ff68 bffc05b4 bff79198 ffffffff 00000003
bff741f7 bffc9490 bff7ea17 bffc9490 0063ff78 00000000 81bf0620
02ff0000 004002d3

Just what's going on ?

I've run all types of syschecks on the system and there's appearingly
not an error that I can find, but still, the RUNDLL32 crashes
everytime I boot up the machine.

I am afraid something that I'm not aware of is broken.

Can anyone help me, please ?

Thanks in advance, and Happy New Year !

[Don Phillipson]

Post by Penang
I am running a Win98SE machine. RAM=256MB.
On startup, even without having any user-app loaded, RUNDLL32 crashes
(in technical terms, "causes an invalid page fault") !

. . .

Post by Penang
I've run all types of syschecks on the system and there's appearingly
not an error that I can find, but still, the RUNDLL32 crashes
everytime I boot up the machine.

You did not mention running SFC = System File Checker.
You can use this to recopy this file from your CD
to c:\windows.

Beware multiple posting. It is especially wasteful
if you did not look in this NG for earlier posts
concerning this file: 56 since Nov. 8.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)