Re: Win98/Oracle8i personal crashes on startup

Hopefully you' re installing on W98 SE. See if this works, try manually stoping the services for oracle by:

going to the menu Start\Settings\Control Panel open the Services icon
and stop all services for oracle
then use Oracles's Uninstaller

This should take off all of oracle except for a few folders reboot and now you should delete the oracle folders that remained after this process.

When I had this problem, I had to go to the extent of also re-installing W98 over the current version which worked for me. It fixed the pre-existing problem with my .vxd that popped up when I installed OPE. I also for good measure turned off all background applications (anti virus, email notify etc.). This may not work for your system and you might want to check if you have all of the Windows updates (patches and fixes) first for W98 SE.

Dirk Krast wrote:

> Greetings all, apologies up front for the long message. I searched
> through newsgroups and websites for answers with no luck.
>
> I installed the 8.1.6 personal edition software (just the client
> portion) on a Win98 machine, and my system now hangs on startup. I've
> gone through numerous MS KnowledgeBase troubleshooting pages, with no
> luck. I can't even start the system in safe mode from the hard disk
> (although I can get to a command prompt). I am able to start in safe
> mode using Norton rescue disks that I maintain.
>
> When I start the machine, it goes through its BIOS startup stuff, does
> the memory count, etc., and then gives me a blue screen of death,
> with: "A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C02A27A8 in VXD
> VWIN32(05) + 000012D0"
>
> I press the space bar, and the system goes back to a blank screen
> (normal part of startup), but then gives me an error message "EXPLORER
> caused an invalid page fault in module EXPLORER.EXE at 0187:00401f31"
> If I click OK, the machine just hangs at that blank screen.
>
> If I try to start in safe mode, I get a different error message:
> "EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module EXPLORER.EXE at
> 0167:00401f31"
>
> I've tried REM-ing the Oracle statements that were added to
> AUTOEXEC.BAT, but that makes no difference. I've tried starting with
> system.ini and win.ini disabled but that makes no difference. I've
> also tried replacing EXPLORER.EXE with a fresh copy, to no avail.
>
> I'm pretty sure the installation of the Win98 Oracle client is the
> culprit. I can boot into safe mode using the Norton rescue disks, and
> can start the universal installer, but the installer indicates that I
> don't have any components installed, even though the files exist.
> And, no Oracle items appear in the Add/Remove programs window. Should
> I just delete all Oracle files? Won't the registry entries remain?
> Am I way off-base with my assumption that the Oracle software is the
> problem?
>
> Any help is most appreciated -- thanks.
>
> Dirk
  Received on Wed Jun 13 2001 - 22:26:22 CEST