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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / General Topics / December 2007Windows Protection Error
I installed a different motherboard today with one that came out of a Windows 98 machine (no problems with that machine). I get this error when I boot up on this machine. I've re-installed Windows 98. When I re-installed, all I could see was that it replaced my registry using scanreg (twice now). I've tried what Microsoft says to do by disabling everything with msconfig. I still get the error. I DO NOT want to reformat and install clean. Isn't there a vxd file I can delete and when I reinstall, its created again.Any ideas? the drivers for the motherboard are different to the ones installed for your oold motherboard reisntall  Signature-- -- -- -- -- Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/ Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/newsinfo/collateral.aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ > I installed a different motherboard today with one that came out of a > Windows 98 machine (no problems with that machine). I get this error when I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I DO NOT want to reformat and install clean. Isn't there a vxd file I can > delete and when I reinstall, its created again.Any ideas? > I installed a different motherboard today with one that came out of a > Windows 98 machine (no problems with that machine). I get this error when I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I DO NOT want to reformat and install clean. Isn't there a vxd file I can > delete and when I reinstall, its created again.Any ideas? If you can boot to safe mode... delete the enum key in the registry... the hardware will be re-detetected on bootup... you may have to hunt down some drivers though I can get into safe mode, but deleting enum does not work. Any other ideas? > > I installed a different motherboard today with one that came out of a > > Windows 98 machine (no problems with that machine). I get this error when [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > the hardware will be re-detetected on bootup... > you may have to hunt down some drivers though > I can get into safe mode, but deleting enum does not work. Any other ideas? > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > the hardware will be re-detetected on bootup... > > you may have to hunt down some drivers though You may have to perform a parallel installation... You can reinstall windows in a 2nd folder and that will essentially give you a clean install but you will NOT have to format the drive. If you do that, all your data willbe there...but all your apps will have to be reinstalled and all your custom setting will be lost. I'm not worried about my data - its all backed up. What I do want to keep is exactly what you said i would lose - my apps and custom settings. Isn't there something else? > > I can get into safe mode, but deleting enum does not work. Any other > ideas? [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > be reinstalled > and all your custom setting will be lost. > > You may have to perform a parallel installation... > > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > be reinstalled > > and all your custom setting will be lost. All I can think of would be to get a motherboard similar to your original one... the same chipset etc. | I installed a different motherboard today with one that came out of a | Windows 98 machine (no problems with that machine). I get this error [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] | I DO NOT want to reformat and install clean. Isn't there a vxd file I | can delete and when I reinstall, its created again.Any ideas? VMM32.vxd is the file that likely contains the low-level drivers you need to replace. It is a monolithic file containing many drivers. It was my understanding that the file would regenerate during an over-install of Windows, which I think you said you have done. What is the date on yours? Here is mine... C:\>dir c:\vmm32.vxd /s Directory of C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM VMM32 VXD 941,094 07-22-99 12:21a VMM32.VXD If yours is still the old one, perhaps you must delete it first, per... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141898/en-us Windows 95/98 Boots Directly to "Shut Down" Screen ......Quote the article............ To Re-Create the Vmm32.vxd File 1. Restart your computer. For Windows 95, when you see the "Starting Windows 95" message, press the F8 key, and then choose Command Prompt Only from the Startup menu. For Windows 98, press and hold down the CTRL key after your computer completes the Power On Self Test (POST), and then choose Command Prompt Only from the Startup menu. 2. Type the following line to change to the Windows\System folder: cd \windows\system 3. Type the following line: ren vmm32.vxd vmm32.old 4. Reinstall Windows 95/98. NOTE: If you installed Windows 95 from a CD-ROM, you may need to enable the Mscdex.exe line in the Autoexec.bat file or reinstall the real-mode CD-ROM drivers included with the CD-ROM drive before you can reinstall Windows 95. After you enable the real-mode CD-ROM drivers, repeat step 1 to restart the computer. ......EOQ.............................. Notes... (a) Ensure you have that Mscdex.exe in Autoexec.bat (or at least in DOSStart.bat) whether or not you are Win95. (b) To undo instruction 3 (if necessary), reverse the names after "ren". (c) Some say an over-install of Windows (into the same folder) can lead to DLL-Hell. If you actually haven't done it yet, you may instead install Windows into a new folder, as philo said. Then, just copy VMM32.vxd from that new folder into the current one. Also, you must change the folder names in MSDOS.sys back to what they are now. Here are what mine look like... [Paths] WinDir=c:\windows WinBootDir=c:\windows HostWinBootDrv=c I think that's all, (but I'm not quite sure). I wonder, what is in your VMM32 folder? Here is mine... C:\>dir C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VMM32 /a Directory of C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VMM32 IFSMGR VXD 186,438 09-19-00 12:57p IFSMGR.VXD IOS VXD 69,570 04-23-99 10:22p IOS.VXD MRCI2 VXD 53,403 04-23-99 10:22p MRCI2.VXD QEMMFIX VXD 9,792 04-23-99 10:22p QEMMFIX.VXD ESSDRV <DIR> 08-07-01 10:36p ESSDRV Whatever is in that folder will override a .vxd of the same name inside the monolithic VMM32.vxd file. SignatureThanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, Should things get worse after this, PCR pcrrcp@netzero.net |
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