[python-win32] Illegal instruction while installing win32 extensions

[John Machin]

Olivier Lefevre wrote:
> Trying to run pywin32-205.win32-py2.4.exe on a Windows XP SP2 machine 
> with a HT P4 processor gives me "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an 
> illegal instruction error". Any idea?
> 

Gives me one of those stupid "do you want to send your life history to 
Microsoft" dialogue boxes, not an error message as quoted above. Looks 
like the offending instruction is in ntdll.dll ...

Works OK on Windows 2000 SP 4, with an AMD Athlon CPU.