Weird message on home computer

Joel Glassman · Post by **Joel Glassman** » 1 Nov 2000 6:25 am

(No one at work can tell me what it means)
"An exception OE has occured at 0028:C11BCDB0
inVxD CDFS (03)+ 00008354 this was called from 0028:C11C2444 in VxD voltrack (04)+
00000998 it may be possible to continue normally."

I've gotten this twice--unable to reboot
had to turn the computer off.
any thoughts?

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 1 Nov 2000 7:11 am

THAT'S IT ! THAT'S IT !! You've been CONTACTED !! Oh, man, who would've thought they'd pick YOU?! Wow, man, wow! This is SOOO cool! You're gonna go , aren't you??

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Bill Terry · Post by **Bill Terry** » 1 Nov 2000 7:36 am

I'm not a PC guy, but that looks like a piece of software misbehaving. The exception message most likely indicates the code execution branched to an illegal memory location, accessed a corrupt pointer,...?? Could be a lot of things....

The exception type and all those address references are pretty much useless to anybody but the guy trying to debug the code, he can use the memory locations to trace his source and find out what broke.

Either that, or it WAS alien contact

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John Gretzinger · Post by **John Gretzinger** » 1 Nov 2000 11:20 am

OK - here goes

You got a memory exception in one of the buffers (OE) at the exact address of 0028:C11BCDB0. The module which caused the problem is a VxD (visual basic code)from the CDFS program (sounds like something in the CD player or having to do with the CD Drive. The VxD code "voltrack" which sounds like the piece of code that tells the computer which track on the CD to read, called the offending piece of code that froze your machine.

So just what kind of CD are you running anyway????

Can you give me a couple of hints? What operating system, what processor, how much memory, etc>?????

Then again, I may be completely wrong.

jdg

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 1 Nov 2000 1:06 pm

Can you boot it from your emergency repair floppy? Once you do that, you'll be able to find cdfs.vxd on the hard disk and rename it. Then you'll probably be able to boot, but your CD drive won't be active.

Another thought is that a maybe a CD that's just sitting in the drive is triggering the problem. Make sure that your CD drive is empty.

Joel Glassman · Post by **Joel Glassman** » 1 Nov 2000 1:57 pm

b0b & John-
I think that might be it.
There is an OS CD in the CD drawer.
I'll remove it.

Jim,
First I thought it was steel tablature--scared the livin crap outa me! I then had visions throwing the computer overboard as an boat anchor.
--Joel

Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 1 Nov 2000 6:00 pm

No Problemo! Just do like the IS people where I work would do when faced with such a dilemma: RE-FORMAT THE HARD DRIVE!!!

The sledgehammer approach is used a little too much around here....

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 2 Nov 2000 10:13 am

Reloading the disk image (reformatting the hard drive and reloading) is a drastic step and would semm to the easy way out. However, with the complexity of many systems reloading is the fastest way to get the user back on line. It could take a long time to try and find the problem and fix it (e.g. week or weeks) and most businesses cannot afford for a PC to be down that long.