Category: Windows 98/ME
Fatal Exception Errors
If you receive an error message which says A Fatal Exception Has Occurred At xxxx:xxxxxxxx (where the XY is a specific processor error code and the string of lowercase x's is numbers), then you have what is known as a fatal exception error, a virulent processor error that is as serious as the error message is long. When a program runs into access problems with an illegal instruction, invalid data or code, or an invalid privilege level, the processor chokes, and in many cases, the system must be restarted or shut down.
