# Yipe! I did something illegal and I don't even know what it was!

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 27, 2000, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yipe-i-did-something-illegal-and-i-dont-even-know-what-it-was/38612 "2000-10-27T16:08:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yipe-i-did-something-illegal-and-i-dont-even-know-what-it-was/38612/1 "2000-10-27T16:08:50Z")

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I’ve completed an illegal operation and have been shut down. Now if I just what it was I did:

> [@](#):
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> **IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in  
> module MACXW4.DRV at 000a:000007a9.  
> Registers:  
> EAX=00000000 CS=035f EIP=000007a9 EFLGS=00010246  
> EBX=00900000 SS=18b7 ESP=cbcda7c6 EBP=00000000  
> ECX=0ffff65d DS=207f ESI=836dafec FS=00e7  
> EDX=00020001 ES=03d7 EDI=00000000 GS=0000  
> Bytes at CS:EIP:  
> 8b 46 14 8b f8 81 e0 ff 00 00 00 c1 e0 10 c1 ed  
> Stack dump:  
> 00000001 0000acca 000038e4 000020af 000065f4 00006586 0000357b 00980000 00120000 00cc0000 00000000 00020000 00980000 00120000 00cc0000 00020000**

What the hell does this mean? I’m tired of it popping up at random moments. Can I fix this? Is there any way not to be breakin’ the law, breakin’ the law with MSIE? Or am I doomed to get busted every so often and half to reopen the program?

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yipe-i-did-something-illegal-and-i-dont-even-know-what-it-was/38612/2 "2000-10-27T16:13:59Z")

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IE and that .drv (driver) file didn’t get along and got into a fight. Then IE whines about it to Windows and it sends both of them to their corners. (It caused a crash.)

Now as to why. Dunno. Maybe an update is in order?

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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yipe-i-did-something-illegal-and-i-dont-even-know-what-it-was/38612/3 "2000-10-27T16:22:26Z")

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Look here for starters:

[http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q242/5/12.ASP](http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q242/5/12.ASP)

Obtained through a quick search on MACXW4 in google. Common problem, apparently. Update the drivers for your ATI video board.