On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 "K. Karl Kuller" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I had installed Win 98 over Win95B OSR2 with SP1 and IE 4.01 but now Win
>98 is malfunctioning. I wanted to re-install Win95B (my CD does have the
>SETUP.EXE file). Since Win 98 would not boot up, I could not use the
>uninstall feature, so I tried installing Win 95B over it. The installation
>seemed to go OK but, when I tried to boot up Win 95B, I was told that I had
>an invalid Windows configuration and got the following message: Invalid
>VxD dynamic link call from 105(04)+00000E2F device "VMM", service 1A7.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions on my getting back to Win 95B OSR2 with
>SP1 and IE 4.01? Any ideas sure would be greatly appreciated.
Sounds like you have a Virtual Device Driver (VxD) that is a left-over
from Win98, (Setup doesn't automatically replace files that _seem_ ok)
but it could be the target of the link which is invalid,
and the error message doesn't tell you what that is.
1) Quick fix: try to fix just this fault
(bearing in mind there may be other hidden incompatibilities)
Working from native DOS
* dir \windows\system\vmm*.* and check the date and time
to see if there are any clues about the version
(I have Win95a vmm32.vxd with a recent date,
which suggests Windows may modify this VxD)
* in your .cab file folder, find the cabfile with the one you need
by searching them using the extract command
extract /a /d Win95_02.cab vmm*.* (my vmm32 was in cab 03)
(where "Win95_02.cab" is the name of your first .cab file
/a means search All .cabs and /d means Display not Extract)
then use extract again to force the overwrite of your old VxD
2) Drastic action: delete the Windows folder and reinstall
(for safety, keep a backup copy in case you want to
try again with a different approach)
This makes sure Setup installs the correct components
but you will lose any applications information in the Windows
folder, including .dlls and Registry entries.
If you made a backup of critical files before you installed Win98,
you may be able to copy the Registry and any missing .dlls from that.
(I've had some success transplanting
an old Registry to a clean installation)
3) Stealthy approach: install Windows to a different folder
This allows you to get Windows running without deleting
your old system, giving you access to all the Windows tools
to try to rescue the old configuration.
4) 20-20 hindsight: restore from backups
(the most satisfactory method,
but rarely available despite much publicity ;-)
* take a backup of the new system, especially user data.
* restore your old operating system
from the backup you made before upgrading
* re-install any applications added under the new system
* restore any changed applications data
from your backup of the new system
Len Warner <[log in to unmask]> http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~len/ ICQ:10120933
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