Fatal Exception OE 0167:BFF55319

[Rex A. Butcher]

Hi there,

I am using a Toshiba Satellite laptop and yesterday, the hibernation feature decided to give up the ghost. The screen instantly goes blank, flashes a couple of times and is dead to all key presses. However, the system lights stay on.

The only way out is either Cnt-Alt-Del or press the reset button. As the computer boots, I get the following message: Fatal exception OE has occurred at 0167:BFF55319. Current application will be terminated. Press any key, etc. etc.’ Press any key and everything appears to load.

I have run SFC and everything was hunky dory. I have checked Bootlog.txt and am informed that file ndis2sup.vxd has failed to load. Replaced it but still I get the blue screen and hibernate does not work.

Checked Google and MS KnowledgeBase for 0167:BFF55319 and found zilch.

Would be grateful if anyone could throw some light on what is happening and how I resolve the problem. Would restoring a previous reg backup help?

The only new program I have recently installed is Rain, to help keep the processor cool. However, this was installed about three weeks ago and everything was working fine until yesterday.

Thanks in advance,

Rex

[IMM]

There should be a keypress sequence to toast the hibernation file on the boot - check the manual.

Failing that, delete the c:\windows\toshiber.dat file from DOS if you can find it. It should be rebuilt. If that isn't the case, then if there is a halloc.exe file, it can be used to destroy and create the hibernation file on most of the older toshibas.

As you can tell - I haven't looked your model up Out of curiosity which is it? Is this 98First Edition (gold) or 98SE?

[Rex A. Butcher]

IMM,

Thanks for your reply

Don't understand what 'There should be a keypress sequence to toast the hibernation file on the boot - check the manual.' means. Would be grateful for an explanation!

Do you mean that if I delete toshiba.dat file, it will be rebuilt when I reboot? Does the same apply to halloc.exe?

I'm using W98SE on a Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS.

I have tweaked the hibernation setting but to no avail.

Rex

[Rex A. Butcher]

IMM,

I have found the course of all my hibernation/ Fatal error message.

I have been trying to get word 2000 to display and print Japanese, vertical text, starting on the right of the page. In fact, I have another thread to this effect. So far, I have had no luck.

However, I did find that there is a font (@ms PGothic) that should do what I want. Apparently, the @ signifies vertical. I found this font on a Japanese Word site and downloaded it as a .zip file. Opened it and it became an .exe file which I tried to install. Somehow, it did not work nor was it visible in the font list, so I ignored it.

But searching through everything today, I found a reference to it in the font folder; deleted it because I'm not going to use it, and not only has the hibernation function returned to normal but the Fatal Error message at start-up has vanished.

Sure beats the hell out of me!

Thanks for you advice.

Rex