Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 15:12:17 +0200 From: nils AT sonya DOT exp-math DOT uni-essen DOT de (Nils Rennebarth) To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: *Exception 2 at eip=3694 error > >Exception 2 at eip=3694 > ^^^ means Instruction pointer. The name comes from the 8086-Processsor, where it simply was IP. On 80386+ all registers are 32-bit wide and the name of the full register is the old name prefixed by an 'e', probably for extended. But this information is not of much use probably, because you got Parity-error the second time, which means either that your RAM really isn't o.k., or something is absolutely wrong, giving a more or less random error-message. Do you have the possibility to check physical integrity of your RAM? Hope this helps a little. Nils!