Critical Updates on 98 Machine

[mfarley]

Everytime I try to run and get the critical updates for my recently reformatted pc, i get a failure:

IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in
module RPCRT4.DLL at 016f:7fbd0894.
Registers:
EAX=02db0713 CS=016f EIP=7fbd0894 EFLGS=00010212
EBX=02dac5d8 SS=0177 ESP=02dac3f8 EBP=02dac5e8
ECX=77124438 DS=0177 ESI=00000484 FS=1317
EDX=bff76855 ES=0177 EDI=7712454e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 30 ff 75 d4 8d 85 1c fe ff ff 50 e8 cb 0b 00
Stack dump:
02dac8f4 00000000 00000000 02dac540 77031cb8 00000000 00000000 770342b3 00000000 00000000 7703400b 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

HELP! :P

[Ranger Bob]

Have you tried repairing Internet Explorer to see if it helps?

[mfarley]

I looked for IE in my add&remove and it wasn't there. lol so no, i didn't try to repair it. :)

[LeRoi]

Mike,

See if you can access the repair tool using the second or third method on this page:

http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/ie50-11.shtml

[mfarley]

nope, not there, the first entry on mine is the second entry on his (direct x)

[Ranger Bob]

What version of IE are you running?

[LeRoi]

Did you see the last method at the bottom?

[mfarley]

IE version: 5.00

Leroi, I will try it now. I did the second not the last

[mfarley]

That opened up a new window where the only option is add component. The install/repair was greyed out.

[LeRoi]

The only other thing I can think of right now is to try system file checker, but having never used 98, I don't know how to use it. I know you need your Windows CD handy or to have the .cab files installed on your hard drive.

[added]

I found this:

http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/start-142.shtml

[Ranger Bob]

Here is a link to all the downloads for IE so you could upgrade to either IE 5.5 or IE 6 to see if it fixes the problem.

http://helpdesk.uvic.ca/how-to/support/win...95/msiexpl.html (http://helpdesk.uvic.ca/how-to/support/win95/msiexpl.html)

[mfarley]

will try it RB, thanks.

[mfarley]

Installed, restarted, and got an error and for the life of me I was too foolish to write it down.

Right now, I am trying to download the updates, and this time no error, however, it is staying stagnant "prepairing to download".

[Bruce]

Mike, mind if I ask a Question?
Are you using the active update site, in other words where it scans and you select the updates and then they install automatically?
I have run into problems doing it that way. So now I get the Update .exe files and save them on my Hard Drive and then install that way. Much less chance of corruption. HTH