Did your friend recently increase his ram amount?  Are you sure his chipset
on the motherboard can cache 128 meg of ram?  Some old Pentium era (or AMD
K6) motherboard chipsets could cache only 64 meg.  Installing more ram
causes the cache to become corrupted.  Go into Cmos setup and disable L2
cache.
If the errors all clear up then this is the problem.  Also, some ram errors
show up in windows installs as disk errors.  This is caused because the
win9x install begins in 16 bit mode and then switches to 32 bit mode, which
uses memory in a different scheme, which accesses a lot more memory
addresses.  This finds bad ram problems that the 16 bit mode did not notice,
then reports them as disk errors, probably because that is what windows was
trying to do when the install was corrupted.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: MM [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 9:33 PM

Hello all,
Here is my scenario. A friend of mine is running WinME on an AMD (K6) and
128mb RAM with 10gb HD. I offered to take a look at his computer for him
after he couldn't connect to the internet and was getting as many as 10
error messages pop up at startup. After doing some diagnostics and fixing
some errors, I decided to try and reinstall the operating system. The
problem is , the installation goes upto something like 10% (copying files to
drive) and it stops with an error "cannot copy files to disk. click enter to
exit setup". I have ran scan disk, suface scan, and Norton Disk utilities
but they all come up with no disk errors. Some of the error messages have
been dealt with but here are the ones that are still coming up.

1. Unhandeled Exception C0000005 at address 100016b8

2. Cmesys unknows error

3. Mobile Device properties:
    The TCP/IP Network transport is not installed

4. Pgmonitor:
    Error in P65DK.DLL

Can anyone have any idea what could be wrong? I know it is combination of
things making the errors but any assistance will be great .

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