im having a problem i come home and my dad is messing with computer when i take a look at it i had the blank screen with nothing showing in taskmon i reboot and right when the desktop in windows shows it instantly goes to a windows protection error and when i reboot in safe mode when it tells ya not everything is accesable because of limited drivers i click ok then it goes directly to a "fatal exception 06 occured at 0125: ive tried about everything when looking around in msdos the latest stuff i see created is some updates from a web based virus scan canned micro trends housecall and thats all i know to tell ya i hope someone out there could help a little oh ya im running win98se

First, insert your earplugs and get ready for a blast from Winken, Blinken and Stinken about "It ain't DOS" Did TrendMicro find anything? M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

I'm not familiar with those posters. Not all that clear on what's occurring on this machine - although this page from M$ describes a problem with the DOS AV scan - possibly related. You might consider renaming autoexec.bat from DOS or using msconfig in Safe Mode to disable it. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

I think it's a windows problem and not one of those typical 'stuck in dos' problems. You might try restoring a previous registry. Startup the computer and tap the F8 key. Choose 'command prompt only' from the menu. At the prompt type scanreg/restore and enter. Choose a registry to restore with a date that precedes the problem. When it's done, reboot and see what happens.

Hi Suggest you first check your system memory with Memtest86 May not help, but it rules out bad memory, which can cause all sorts of trouble.