Dean,

Do you know if that BIOS has built-in virus protection? That caused an install of Win ME to fail on
me recently after most of the install was complete. That may or may not be your problem, but if you
can get in the BIOS and disable it, you might have better luck.  hth

Al Thompson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Kukral"
Subject: [PCBUILD] Meaning of error message?


> My wife's computer started acting flakey and I decided to
> replace the hard drive.  I am having trouble reinstalling
> Windows (it has failed on two different versions of
> W98 and one of W ME).  Mostly it installs, but then
> I get a message near the end of the installation that
> rundll has caused a problem; then later it is unable
> to install some JAVA cab files.  Then, when it boots, it
> says there is a registry error and reboots.  Then it
> hangs.  I suspect the problems are a result of a bad
> install.  (Almost the same problem with all os's.)
>
> I am trying to determine if this is a hardware problem
> which requires a new mb (it is as if the files are not
> being copied quite properly, as if the address lines
> work intermittently) or something else.  I do not
> want to upgrade hardware unless necessary.
>
> To get to the point, during the install I got this error
> message which may shed some light on what the
> problem is:
>
> INSTALLTRANSLATOR: Unable to load ODBC
>        control panel (odbccp32.dll):
>
>      31: A device attached to the system is not functioning
>
> What is the meaning of the last line??  Is the "device" a
> hardware device or a software device?
>
> The system is an Athlon 1.2gighz on an Asus a7v133 mb.
> WD 40gig drive.
>
> I have had trouble installing ME before on the high speed
> ATA100 line, but the installation never got beyond copying
> the files to the hard drive, so this does not look like the
> same problem.
>
> TIA
>
> Dean Kukral   [log in to unmask]

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