Microsoft KB Archive/261873

= Dibeng.dll Error When Age of Empires 1.0 Ends on Windows Millennium Edition =

Article ID: 261873

Article Last Modified on 1/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

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This article was previously published under Q261873



If this article does not describe the error message that you are receiving, view the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article to view more articles that describe error messages:

315854 Windows 98 and Windows Me Error Message Resource Center



SYMPTOMS
When you run Microsoft Age of Empires 1.0 and you decide to save the game, and then exit the game, you may receive the following error message:

Explorer has caused an error in unknown. Explorer will now close.

When you close the error message, you may receive the following error message:

Explorer has caused an error in Dibeng.dll.

Explorer will now close.

After these error messages are displayed, your computer's desktop icons and taskbar may be missing. Also, Windows Millennium Edition (Me) may not work.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, you must restart your computer.

NOTE: When you restart Age of Empires, you still have access to your saved games.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
The details of the faults are as follows:

First fault:

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module unknown at c15f:00000934.

Registers:

EAX=00000020 CS=04e7 EIP=00000934 EFLGS=00000202

EBX=000000f6 SS=04cf ESP=00000040 EBP=0000c0b0

ECX=000004cf DS=2d57 ESI=00013fc0 FS=19b7

EDX=04e70934 ES=2077 EDI=00058aea GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

66 8b 06 83 c6 02 8b c8 d1 e0 25 c0 ff c0 ff 81

Stack dump:

00000000 c0b01d7f 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

131f131f 00000000 000025ab 093f046e 00002710 2b580003 158f0002

Second fault:

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module DIBENG.DLL at 0005:00003f2f.

Registers:

EAX=7fff7fff CS=0457 EIP=00003f2f EFLGS=00000246

EBX=001f0010 SS=1f7f ESP=000078be EBP=000078dc

ECX=00000010 DS=2d57 ESI=00000000 FS=158f

EDX=fffffec0 ES=2d57 EDI=0000bfc0 GS=0687

Bytes at CS:EIP:

f3 ab 03 fa 81 eb 00 00 01 00 7d f1 c3 2c 3f 1a

Stack dump:

00003d79 41908173 7fff0000 7fff7fff ff007fff 1f00ffff 04bf0002 7a4ae52c 044731d7

22e32b3f 0000e4de 00007a80 00547f00 00000001 00000000 00000000

Additional query words: blank screen missing icons desktop dibeng dll

Keywords: kbinvalidpagefault kbprb KB261873

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