NFS-HS Won't start anymore!

I have a clone (ASUS P2B) Piii-450 w/160 megs, SBlive card, Logitech FF wheel, ATI Rage Fury (32 megs, 1024x768x16 bit) system running Win98se w/directx7. This system used to run NFS-HS just fine, but now refuses to start and instead gives me a Windows error message that says: Abort message: Exception caught! CS=0000018F DS=00000197 ES=000000197 FS=000058E7 GS=00003616 and so on. I have updated and reinstalled the video and sound card drivers, I have reinstalled DX7, I have checked that all background apps are not running, I have tried disabling win.ini, system.ini, and startup apps. I have reinstalled NFS-HS. EA support doesn't seem to have any ideas. Has anyone fixed this? david

Have you added any new tracks or cars lately?

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> I have a clone (ASUS P2B) Piii-450 w/160 megs, SBlive card, Logitech FF > wheel, ATI Rage Fury (32 megs, 1024x768x16 bit) system running Win98se > w/directx7. This system used to run NFS-HS just fine, but now refuses to > start and instead gives me a Windows error message that says: > Abort message: > Exception caught! > CS=0000018F DS=00000197 ES=000000197 FS=000058E7 GS=00003616 > and so on. > I have updated and reinstalled the video and sound card drivers, I have > reinstalled DX7, I have checked that all background apps are not running,

I > have tried disabling win.ini, system.ini, and startup apps. I have > reinstalled NFS-HS. > EA support doesn't seem to have any ideas. Has anyone fixed this? > david

Nope. As I mentioned. I have reinstalled the whole damn game. Thanks for the idea, though. david

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> Have you added any new tracks or cars lately? > > I have a clone (ASUS P2B) Piii-450 w/160 megs, SBlive card, Logitech FF > > wheel, ATI Rage Fury (32 megs, 1024x768x16 bit) system running Win98se > > w/directx7. This system used to run NFS-HS just fine, but now refuses to > > start and instead gives me a Windows error message that says: > > Abort message: > > Exception caught! > > CS=0000018F DS=00000197 ES=000000197 FS=000058E7 GS=00003616 > > and so on. > > I have updated and reinstalled the video and sound card drivers, I have > > reinstalled DX7, I have checked that all background apps are not

running,

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> I > > have tried disabling win.ini, system.ini, and startup apps. I have > > reinstalled NFS-HS. > > EA support doesn't seem to have any ideas. Has anyone fixed this? > > david

If you added a car and uninstalled the game and reinstalled the cars would still be there Try uninstalling then deleteing the NFS dir to remove any extra files and then reinstalling i had the same problem and it was a car I added, or if you had a car and it is somewhere in a career mode and it has been removed then that could also cause the error

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> Nope. As I mentioned. I have reinstalled the whole damn game. > Thanks for the idea, though. > david > > Have you added any new tracks or cars lately? > > > I have a clone (ASUS P2B) Piii-450 w/160 megs, SBlive card, Logitech

FF > > > wheel, ATI Rage Fury (32 megs, 1024x768x16 bit) system running Win98se > > > w/directx7. This system used to run NFS-HS just fine, but now refuses to

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> > > start and instead gives me a Windows error message that says: > > > Abort message: > > > Exception caught! > > > CS=0000018F DS=00000197 ES=000000197 FS=000058E7 GS=00003616 > > > and so on. > > > I have updated and reinstalled the video and sound card drivers, I

have

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> > > reinstalled DX7, I have checked that all background apps are not > running, > > I > > > have tried disabling win.ini, system.ini, and startup apps. I have > > > reinstalled NFS-HS. > > > EA support doesn't seem to have any ideas. Has anyone fixed this? > > > david

Thanks very much for following up. I removed and then deleted the directory and success! After much trial and error, the problem is/was a Porsche 959 car. Thanks again. david

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> If you added a car and uninstalled the game and reinstalled the cars would > still be there > Try uninstalling then deleteing the NFS dir to remove any extra files and > then reinstalling > i had the same problem and it was a car I added, or if you had a car and

it

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> is somewhere in a career mode and it has been removed then that could also > cause the error > > Nope. As I mentioned. I have reinstalled the whole damn game. > > Thanks for the idea, though. > > david > > > Have you added any new tracks or cars lately? > > > > I have a clone (ASUS P2B) Piii-450 w/160 megs, SBlive card, Logitech > FF > > > > wheel, ATI Rage Fury (32 megs, 1024x768x16 bit) system running

Win98se > > > > w/directx7. This system used to run NFS-HS just fine, but now refuses

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> to > > > > start and instead gives me a Windows error message that says: > > > > Abort message: > > > > Exception caught! > > > > CS=0000018F DS=00000197 ES=000000197 FS=000058E7 GS=00003616 > > > > and so on. > > > > I have updated and reinstalled the video and sound card drivers, I > have > > > > reinstalled DX7, I have checked that all background apps are not > > running, > > > I > > > > have tried disabling win.ini, system.ini, and startup apps. I have > > > > reinstalled NFS-HS. > > > > EA support doesn't seem to have any ideas. Has anyone fixed this? > > > > david