Excel crashes every few minutes

[duffsparky]

Hi guys I'm new to this forum so please bare with me.

I am trying to manipulate a lengthy list in Excel 97 using a Win98se
PC.

I've been having hardware problems which I hope are now resolved.
Throughout these problems Excel would occasionaly crash (not freeze)
especially after accepting an autosave request, or even when I
initiated the save myself. Sometimes the program does not crash after
saving.

The problem has got progressively worse, and now it crashes every few
minutes. I don't want to increase the dwell time or turn off the auto
save, as I'm hopeless at remembering to manually save. As I said
before sometimes the program does not crash after saving, so it's 3
steps forward and 2 steps back at the moment.

I've had a quick look at the forum but not really found a solution,
trouble is I'm up against a wall trying to get job done, so I haven't
really got time to trawl the forum.

Below is a copy of the error popup:-

EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module EXCEL.EXE at 016f:30125db1.
Registers:
EAX=0000000a CS=016f EIP=30125db1 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=00000001 SS=0177 ESP=0062e538 EBP=0062e9d4
ECX=0062e868 DS=0177 ESI=00de15b2 FS=337f
EDX=00000078 ES=0177 EDI=00000012 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f6 40 06 04 75 06 80 78 04 05 74 e6 56 e8 37 00
Stack dump:
00000012 0062e780 0062e9d4 00000001 30125b57 0062e780 00000000 00000000
3035f51d 0062e750 00000017 00000000 00000000 ffffffff 00000000 00000000


Anyone got any ideas.

Kind regards,

duffsparky,

 

[DRANDON]

The first thing I would try is to save your file using "Save As" and
save it somewhere else on your hardrive. In another folder or
something. If this does not help, my string suspicion is that you have
a RAM issue. Replace it.

Hope this helps.

 

[duffsparky]

Hi Drandon,

OK done both of those. Problem still the same

Anymore from any one

Regards,

duffsparky