I just built a new PC and get the "Windows Protection Error loading NDIS -
You must restart your computer" on my Win98(1st Edition) bootable partition.
My XP partition works fine. I have a P4 3.0ghz. I found article Q312108 (
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312108 ) that said
contact MS for the fix (problem with over 2.1ghz CPU's). Too much hassle and
don't want to risk having to pay $35 or more for support (plus, who wants to
pay $35 for a program that cost $90 in 1998--just trying to keep 98 going
for games and other thing that don't need XP). I figure someone else has had
this problem. The problem happened when I installed my onboard net adapter.
I get the error, reboot my PC into safe mode, remove the net adapter from
device mgr., reboot and it finds my net adapter and the whole cycle will
repeat itself. I went to the Marvell site to look for net drivers for W98
(the disk that came with my motherboard would not install) and installed
them. It worked.

I went to Win Update and was updating, i think it was Explorer update. No
problem, rebooted and was working no problem. I thought I had finally got
it.

I next chose to update to DirectX 9.0c. Rebooted and NDIS error again.

Can anyone help me with this? I hope I have supplied enough info as it is
tough to provide all info when you are frustrated trying to install
something that doesn't matter that much. Thanks, Tom.