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Kenny Parks <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:42:23 -0400
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Mark,
    Try F1 or F2 with the pavillion, usually one or the other on HP.
        Kenny
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Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:53 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] hp pavillion


> Hi,
> A friend came over with an HP Pavillion- 333 celeron w/ 64 megs and a 4
gig
> hd, running windows 98se. It was working fine, she shut it down, started
up the
> next day and got a blinking cursor. I tried to run the recovery disk but
got
> nowhere. I threw in a new 40 gig harddrive and was able to load the the
whole
> thing on the hd, but when I started up I got an error message "Invalid VxD
> dynamic link call to device number 3, service B. Your windows
configuration is
> invalid. Run Windows setup program again to correct this problem."
> I tried to get into the bios, using del on startup, but I was
unsuccessful.
> Is this normal with HP?
> I tried loading XP pro, but after loading it in, I got an error number 4
> message.
> Any ideas?
> Mark Hayden
>
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