Gerry,

I am going to suggest that you start with your sound card first.  I say this
because the last Windows Protection Error problem I ran into had a direct
correlation with the sound card driver.  However, in general it sounds like
you have some hardware that doesn't like each other (or each others
drivers).  My problem stemmed from not having the exact driver for the card.
I had to try four or five different versions of the same driver before I
found the one that worked.

I would remove all non-essential cards from the system first.  Load Windows
98 with just one hard drive, your video card, memory, and CPU.  Then, if you
do get the system to work, start adding components until you run into the
problem again.  If not, you may have an unresolvable conflict in your video
or memory, or possibly a bad motherboard.  HTH.

Kyle

From: "Gerry Coburn" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 4:54 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Windows Protection Error


> I recently swapped out an Abit BH6 motherboard from my computer and
replaced it with a BE6r2 by the same manufacturer. I have had no success in
getting the new board to run properly. As it attempts to boot up it goes
through the POST and suddenly freezes to a black screen with the error
message "While initialising device vcomm, windows protection error. you need
to restart your computer."
> No matter how many timesI attempt to restart I still get the same message.
>
> In desperation I tried to reinstall Windows 98SE but as I get to the point
where hardware is being set up it initialises the driver database but as it
attempts to set up hardware and any PnP devices I have I get the dreaded
blue scree telling me that "a fatal exception 0e occurred at 0028:c143f9e8
and that the application will be terminated" No matter what I do I can get
no further than this point.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction and give me some clue as to the
next step?
>
> System: Abit BE6r2 board, 128Mb sdram, Maxtor hd(1) @ 8Gb, Maxtor hd(2) @
10Gb,Matrox G220 Pci video card, Adaptec AVA 1505 scsi card, UDMA66 ide
controller disabled in bios, SB Audio PC164V sound card and external USB
Robotics modem.
>
> Gerry Coburn

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