Hi, John -

No need to redo everything; I ran into the same problem as you did and
discovered that the cause is poor programming in the ndis.vxd module due
to a faulty assumption about how fast CPUs were going to get (faster
than 2.1 GHz).

See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312108

You can find an updated dll.vxd on the web (Microsoft doesn't publish it
for the general public, it seems), but fixing that one just revealed
more problems caused by the more modern CPU and MB I was using, so I
went with Win98SE instead.

Your Win98SE seems to be the "upgrade" version, which looks for a
certain file to judge whether it's being installed over a previous
windows installation. I don't recall the particular file, win.com
perhaps?

Good luck!

Louis Smogor


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Hi,

I'm installing a new motherboard and when I try to load win98 I get the
following message after the second or third restart:  While initializing
device NDIS: Windows protection error.  You need to restart your
computer.  And of course when I restart I get the same message again.
The power supply is brand new and rated at 450w.  The motherboard is an
Intel 865GBFL with an Intel 2.8 cpu with their heatsink and fan.  I have
one stick of 512 PC2700 ram.  I have a Radeon 9200 AGP video card
installed also.  There is one other weird thing happening and that is
when I put in a boot floppy and my Win98se disk the machine tells me
that I need a microsoft windows disk.  When I use my Win98 disk there is
no problem up until I get the error message.  I'm going to open the box
back and strip out the video card, modem, and sound card and recheck all
the connections and jumper settings and try again.  If anyone has any
ideas they would be appreciated right now.  Thanks.

John

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