Hello Bob: As you can see I got your reply to my dilema. It was received
late in the evening so, I thought I'd wait till the next morning to try your
suggestion. Well, guess what---When I fired up this beast just to verify my
problem again, Windows in her infinite wisdom, decided to start detecting
all the hardware installed including the Lan card and, loaded right up. I
tried it over and over again and, everything is OK now. I don't know why and
cannot explain it but, there it is. Just wanted to thank you for your help,
Bob. Edwin Bogert.
>From: Bob Wright <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Incomplete Win98 install
>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:35:08 -0700
>
>At 08:11 AM 3/19/2002, Edwin Bogert wrote:
>>I have this HP Vectra XA desktop that has 200mhz cpu,3.0gb hd, video card
>>and a lan
>>card. It came with Win 95 installed and had the hd partitioned 84% & 16%
>>respectively
>>with FAT16. I fdisked the hard drive,removed the partitions and
>>restablished a logical
>>dos partition containing fat32 and 100%. I then formatted the hd then
>>restarted with a
>>win98 boot disk and win98 cdrom and the install went quite well except in
>>the very final
>>stages of detecting hardware. Upon restart, I boot from hard disk and
>>after the windows
>>screen comes up, the screen turns black with the message" windows
>>protected-you must
>>restart your computer". and below that it says 32.vxd missing/not loading.
>>Does anybody
>>know what could be causing this? I've re-installed and restarted on this
>>machine
>>numerous times with the same results. Is it hopeless?
>
>
>I have experienced this issue before, though it has been quite a
>while. I runs in my mind that it involves your Network card. Try
>removing it and then restarting. I believe the system misidentified
>your lan card and installed the wrong driver... and then it locks
>when trying to install the driver for it.
>
>Like I said, it has been a while on this one and I may be off base...
>but, it cannot hurt to try.
>
> Bob Wright
>The NOSPIN Group
> http://freepctech.com
>
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