Need Explanation!!!

[florin]

Could somebody explain what all this stuff mean ?

XXXXXXXX caused an invalid page fault in
module XXXXXXXX.EXE at 0137:0048afcd.
Registers:
EAX=00b9072e CS=0137 EIP=0048afcd EFLGS=00010207
EBX=0083fb3a SS=013f ESP=0083f46c EBP=0083f490
ECX=bff9e36c DS=013f ESI=00008b5e FS=11d7
EDX=ffb40640 ES=013f EDI=0083faf0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
c6 00 00 8b 0d d0 ca 56 00 51 e8 31 62 f7 ff 83
Stack dump:
0105001c 00000003 010500ee 00fd0f6c 0050a4df 0105001c ffb40640 0103001c 000000d0 0083f504 0048b629 00587901 00001ad5 00000001 00000000 00000000

[qball]

Basically the message shows the following:

Who caused what (invalid page fault, general protection failure) where.
Registers are extra special memory locations (memory being processed). So they show those values.
Bytes at CS are other memory values.
Stack dump is a dump of the available memory addresses. The stack is used to allocate/unallocate available memory resources.

Not much use to an end user...

[club_med]

I would say you should only be concerned if this is happening repeatedly, if however it shows up sporadically then its not too tragic.

cm.

[BBA]

It is informative that it will tell you the file that cause the issue so you can research what that file is associated with to correct the problem.

That is the useful data you will get from it.

[florin]

If not so important, why does Windows display this all ?

[awwall]

It means a whole lot to the person who wrote the program, however, they are not there to see it like you. If you had Microsoft tech help on line at the time of the error it would help them resolve your problem, but generally that is not the case. Most people have long since cleared the error before they talk to tech help. I, for one, would not want to wait on Msoft help and leave the error up. Might be waiting awhile.

aw