I don't claim to be a computer guru but I have built several computers & this is a first. I have a friends older computer I am trying to upgrade. Pentium 11, 400 Mhz, 20 Gig H.D. 320 MB. Ram. I reformatted it several times. I did full & complete installs everytime not upgrades. I have put ME, 2000 Pro, XP Pro & everyone of them does the same thing. They all get variations of this error message. Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: mshtml.dll
ModVer: 6.0.2900.2802 Offset: 000df830
The dll's, sys, exe etc at the end vary & change.
I have tried everything & spent two days on the phone with Microsoft & tried all kinds of patches & fixes & downloads. Before I ever got online with each O/S I tried I installed Spybot, Adaware & Avast virus protection & immediately updated them all & got all win updates. Is does it with other versions of explorer as well 5.0, Firefox etc. It does it before & after getting win updates & all scans come back clean. I'm at the point I think it's the computer but what would it be ? It runs fine it's just an online thing & sometimes I can check e-mail & surf a little before it happens & other times it happens as soon as you try to go to a website or check e-mail. I tried running sfc /scannow & it said cross linked on allocation .sys,.dll,.exe, etc & lots of things kept running across the screen & it uses your original installation disk I suppose to retrieve & repair it but it does not fix the problem. While running this the computer shuts down & reboots & says One Of Your Disks Needs To Be Checked For Consistency then reboots ? ANY IDEAS ? It's making me crazy. I don't have sound or video drivers for this computer & for some reason XP does not even acknowledge there is a sound card in it but win 2000 does. With XP no speaker icon or sound Win 2000 it does ? I thought about putting Win 98SE in it but I need sound & video drivers & I don't know how or where to get them. I looked a little online & the so called driver sites just made you look at ads & then downloaded stuff that did not work or redirected you to porn sites.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions on what it might be or what the fix might be.