Blue Screen of Death: DPAL Error message

[kareem]

My system: K6-2:350, Asus P5A
Win 98
128 sdram

My i.s.p. Earthlink is running in background
and I'm working in MS Publisher; then suddenly this screen pops up. Strange thing is that I can hear the monitor make a noise as the blue screen's defaulted resolution takes over whatever I'm doing.

Now this doesn't happen often, but it's often enough. A cold boot usually brings me back with my Norton's Util recovering all kinds of "lost chains"
What in the world is going on?

[philipg]

Have you run the System Utilies program Optimize Wizard to optimize regisry and swap file, sounds like a swiss cheesed swap file. Speed disk is run, but the optimizer puts the swap file at the begining of your drive to help prevent lock-ups. Also try the Win Doctor with Norton's. You may have an invalid reg entry. Stop using win9x defrag once you use speed disk.

[kareem]

Hey philipg,
Thanks for the reply; I will surely take a look at the swap configuration. Earlier today I did clean my swap file out. It was more than 30% full; I probably should increase the size of it but I've never done that before. I'll try to see how to do this.