FreeCell error.

smidley · Post by **smidley** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 6:01 pm

Hey all. Ok, so I'm at work tryin' to fix this ladies computer. (nobody say PICS? lol) Guess what her problem is... Freecell doesn't work. It comes up with one of those error messages that says close or ignore. if you click ignore, then nothing happens... the error just stays there. If you click close, then an illegal operation message comes up. here is what the error says.

FREECELL caused a general protection fault
in module CARDS.DLL at 0001:00000903.
Registers:
EAX=00000e57 CS=0eff EIP=00000903 EFLGS=00000a82
EBX=0002efda SS=0da7 ESP=00001aac EBP=00001abe
ECX=00000000 DS=0e57 ESI=00020000 FS=0647
EDX=1fc60000 ES=16c7 EDI=00000015 GS=015f
Bytes at CS:EIP:
83 bf 92 00 00 74 03 e9 fd 00 83 3e 90 00 05 7c
Stack dump:
00150000 8057ad80 00000000 4c761af2 1b1d0e57 0eff0124 000077ed 015f0015 0647852a 16c716ea 16c7c636 00000119 00000000 1afe1497 1afa0000 008eddf6

By the way, the OS is windows 98SE
I have tried uninstalling the games and reinstalling them and that didn't work. I went and downloaded cards.dll and tried replacing the existing one. But that didn't work either. Anyone have any other ideas? Thanx for any help provided.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 7:13 pm

Is office XP on this machine?

smidley · Post by **smidley** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 7:23 pm

Nope. there are like no programs installed. I have no idea what could be causing this.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 7:37 pm

Run scandisk on the Hard Drive yet?

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 7:42 pm

Anything out of the ordinary running in the background that might be conflicting with Freecell when it opens?

smidley · Post by **smidley** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 8:03 pm

no programs running in the system tray or anything like that. and yea, I ran scandisk a few times; both standard and thorough. Any other ideas?

kgsuth · Post by **kgsuth** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 8:29 pm

Don't Know if this is of any use to you

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304402

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 8:30 pm

CARDS.DLL

Compare the date and size of this file on a healthy machine. May just need to replace it, depends on why it was throwing the GPL

smidley · Post by **smidley** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 8:40 pm

Yea, I tried downloading the cards.dll file from the internet, and it was the same size and everything, but it still didn't work.

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 9:17 pm

Is the size: 351 KB (359,936 bytes)?

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 9:19 pm

Originally posted by kgsuth
Don't Know if this is of any use to you

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304402

Nice link!

smidley · Post by **smidley** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:49 am

Mad doc, I don't remember the size (I'm not at work anymore) but I'll post as soon as I get back to the problem tomorrow.