Illegal Operation when viewing cells with comments

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Excel has suddenly developed an aversion to showing cell comments. When placing the cursor overa cell with a comment, I get the message that "Excel has performed an illegal operation and will shut down." The same happens when I attempt to change the options to show all comments. This is what is shown behind the details button of the error window

EXCEL caused a general protection faul
in module 3DFX16V3.DRV at 0008:00000258
Registers
EAX=0000b9b8 CS=0397 EIP=00000258 EFLGS=0000024
EBX=0062301a SS=7667 ESP=0000b898 EBP=0000b8b
ECX=00000004 DS=7667 ESI=0000b9b8 FS=7b7
EDX=00017667 ES=0000 EDI=00000000 GS=000
Bytes at CS:EIP
f3 66 a5 1f 8b d8 8e c2 66 26 8b 47 14 c4 5e 0c
Stack dump
2a060427 0001b9b8 b9ca1832 00014d0c 08f11f3c 00002a06 b8cc0000 038f2075 b9b81388 00007667 04270000 fbbe2a06 30b6ea7d 0458b8ea 000003ff b9b80000

Repairing Excel from the Office XP Pro install disk seems to do no good and McAfee scans reveal nothing untoward. I am reluctant to reinstall Office, fearing that I will again have to downoad the service pack upgrades. At 45300 baud on dial-up, the downloads take a long time

Thanks to anyone who can help

-- Bo
 
Bob said:
Excel has suddenly developed an aversion to showing cell comments.
When placing the cursor overa cell with a comment, I get the message
that "Excel has performed an illegal operation and will shut down."
The same happens when I attempt to change the options to show all
comments. This is what is shown behind the details button of the
error window:

EXCEL caused a general protection fault
in module 3DFX16V3.DRV at 0008:00000258.
Registers:
EAX=0000b9b8 CS=0397 EIP=00000258 EFLGS=00000246
EBX=0062301a SS=7667 ESP=0000b898 EBP=0000b8b2
ECX=00000004 DS=7667 ESI=0000b9b8 FS=7b7f
EDX=00017667 ES=0000 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f3 66 a5 1f 8b d8 8e c2 66 26 8b 47 14 c4 5e 0c
Stack dump:
2a060427 0001b9b8 b9ca1832 00014d0c 08f11f3c 00002a06 b8cc0000
038f2075 b9b81388 00007667 04270000 fbbe2a06 30b6ea7d 0458b8ea
000003ff b9b80000

Repairing Excel from the Office XP Pro install disk seems to do no
good and McAfee scans reveal nothing untoward. I am reluctant to
reinstall Office, fearing that I will again have to downoad the
service pack upgrades. At 45300 baud on dial-up, the downloads take
a long time.

Thanks to anyone who can help!

-- Bob
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Reisinstall the video driver for your computer. Alternatively, turn off
video acceleration and see it that helps. If it does, it is most
probably video.

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