PICALOADER caused a general protection fault in user exe

TimidOne · Post by **TimidOne** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 7:00 pm

PICALOADER caused a general protection fault
in module USER.EXE at 0003:0000509e. Everytime I try To Open Picaloader I Get This Error.. Im Using 98 with a viper II graphics card.. I Have Just changed the card... Ive uninstalled then reinstalled samething... I have Ver 142 So I tried ver 146 SAME problem... Any Help ???

TimidOne · Post by **TimidOne** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:23 pm

heres a screen shot of the error message PICALOADER caused a general protection fault
in module USER.EXE at 0003:0000509e.
Registers:
EAX=00800001 CS=1767 EIP=0000509e EFLGS=00000202
EBX=00020002 SS=39cf ESP=000082ca EBP=000082ec
ECX=00000001 DS=166f ESI=00c47b48 FS=061f
EDX=00000000 ES=061f EDI=0168000c GS=1f96
Bytes at CS:EIP:
67 8a 46 2d 24 7f 67 88 46 2d e9 af fa 90 66 ff
Stack dump:
8330166f 000c0000 00000168 0000002d 5a2000f0 00000b7f 00120c7c 7b480017 8302077a 176703db 00000000 00010000 7b480085 03e00002 38478330 0000168f

Post by **PicaLoader** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 2:56 am

Hi,

I had tested under Windows98 SE, it's works well.
Please update your Windows: Click Windows Start Menu->Windows Update, update IE to 6.0 first, then other hot fixes.
If it still not work, please tell me.

Kind Regards,
PicaLoader

TimidOne · Post by **TimidOne** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 11:07 pm

Hello again.. Ok I try all of that and Im already using IE 6.. Ive even tried deleating the folder the proggie was in after uninstalling and putting it on another drive ! Same Error !! ?? It's driving me NUTS !!

TimidOne · Post by **TimidOne** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:11 am

OK ..I Just figured this thing out.. As i said before I had just changed my video
card and I guess Ill need to change it back if I want to run my graphs at 32 bit I found this on a site for win 98 fixs ...

USER.EXE is located in the Windows\SYSTEM directory and is not an editable file.

It is located in the Win98_42.cab file.

Many errors can result that reference the User.exe file.

In general User.exe errors can be blamed to video related problems. In some cases its due to drivers not being up to date. Other times it is caused from having a video mode of more than 256 colors. If you get a lot of user.exe errors try changing the video mode for number of colors to 256 or some other value. The 32-bit mode or true-color mode can cause this problem
....I Tried it and changed it from 32 bit to 16 bit in my windows graphs propertys... WORKS LIKE A CHARM !! Just thought id share this lil bit of info .....