Gdi.exe crash: Cause?

[Dwight Williams]

I just loaded Word 2000(via Works Suite 2001) onto a new (for me)
desktop machine while my regular laptop's in the shop for repairs, and
the second time I tried using it on the new machine, I got this error
message:

WINWORD caused a general protection fault
in module GDI.EXE at 0026:000014a0.
Registers:
EAX=8000358e CS=0557 EIP=000014a0 EFLGS=00000206
EBX=00001382 SS=310f ESP=0000bba2 EBP=0000bbb6
ECX=00620000 DS=358e ESI=0000bbce FS=371e
EDX=00000014 ES=310f EDI=000009e0 GS=310f
Bytes at CS:EIP:
67 66 0f ab 13 72 69 0f a8 66 53 80 7e ff 00 75
Stack dump:
08f1059f aa840000 00040000 07ee8000 009f0000 12dbbc02 bbce0001 1382310f
09e00000 358e0000 07ee08f1 059f0014 aa361314 00001382 00000000 310fbbce


Any theories?

Yours,

Dwight Williams, Storyteller

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Did you install a default printer? It doesn't have to be physically present,
but Word can't work without a printer driver.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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[Dwight Williams]

Did you install a default printer? It doesn't have to be physically present,
but Word can't work without a printer driver.

Done and the problem's apparently since been resolved by a
repair/reinstall from CD-ROM.

Yours,

Dwight Williams, Storyteller