Help: EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault

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I keep receiving this error message:
EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7b9f6.
Registers:
EAX=7c020dad CS=0167 EIP=bff7b9f6 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=0181f864 SS=016f ESP=017e0000 EBP=017e0028
ECX=7c020dad DS=016f ESI=00000001 FS=31d7
EDX=00000001 ES=016f EDI=81790824 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
57 89 65 e8 75 04 33 c0 eb 54 85 c0 74 4b c7 45
Stack dump:
00000001 0181f864 7c020dad 00000001 0181f864 7c020dad 017e1e20 bffc1564 bff79250 ffffffff 017e1e30 bff7ce23 7c020dad 00000001 7c020e39 7c020dad

the only thing to get rid of it to restart my computer… >:(
how can I fix this? ???

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Hmm, it’s quite strange…
The faulting instruction is PUSH EDI, which shouldn’t cause page fault unless the ESP value is wrong (so it probably is). How such a thing can occur, however, is hard to say.

Did you install any software recently (before the problem appeared)?

It would be nice to know what module is loaded at 7c000000 (or 7c020000?) in the Explorer address space.

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Related forum of page fault. What is going on?

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the thread you’re referring to, is related to an error messaged from ‘ASHQUIC’…
mine is caused by explorer.exe itself ::slight_smile:

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how is that, Igor? ???

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You can try this tool: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/listdlls.shtml

Start it from command line:
“listdlls.exe Explorer > dlls.txt” and check the resulting file dlls.txt.

Another tool that can do it (which I like) is ATM - Another Task Manager. It’s not free anymore, though.

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thanx for your reply Igor… ;D
attached the result text file.

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Hmm, I guess I don’t have any good news.
The module is msvcr70.dll and the crash place is the TopLevelExceptionFilter. It means that the crash occurred somewhere else, beyond the scope of the dumped stack - so I can’t say anything more.

Does the problem appear during a partiuclar operation… or randomly?

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usually after closing the dialup connection…
BTW, ATM is still a freeware (if it is this program: http://anothertaskmanager.da.ru/ )
;D ;D

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Not really - it was free till the version 2.2, but the version 3.0 is not.

Anyway… did you try to disable some of the startup programs and see if it helps? When did the problem appear?

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I have the same problem with explorer crashing after I close my dial-up connection. But I’m running windows so I’m use to crashes.

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I have windows XP and the only time the system crashes is when i shut it down. :slight_smile: