Excel problem Office 2000 Illegal operation...? Help...

[paul]

Hello,

Whenever I try to launch Excel I get an illegal operation Excel has
caused a general protection fault in module USER.EXE

and then the system locks up. Running WIN 98SE and Excel part of
Office 2000

I have tried a repair and still the same problem. Any idea what else I
could try to get this to work? Right now rebuilding the machine is a
very last resort.

thanks

[Dave Peterson]

Here are a couple of links that describe how to find start up errors:

Chip Pearson has some notes on how to diagnose startup errors at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

And Jan Karel Pieterse has more notes at:
http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.asp



paul wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Whenever I try to launch Excel I get an illegal operation Excel has
> caused a general protection fault in module USER.EXE
>
> and then the system locks up. Running WIN 98SE and Excel part of
> Office 2000
>
> I have tried a repair and still the same problem. Any idea what else I
> could try to get this to work? Right now rebuilding the machine is a
> very last resort.
>
> thanks

--

Dave Peterson