06-06-2001, 09:39 PM
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Ensign
Join Date: Feb 2001
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First of all, thanks for taking your time on reading
this post. System: Pentium Celeron 700MHz EMachine 30G HDD, 128M SDRAM, Modem card... I've been using this machine for about two years and about 3 month ago, upgraded HDD and RAM, and used without any problem until yesterday. But, suddenly, it's no longer working. The error message I got when boot the computer is: <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> While initializing device VKD Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> I tried to reinstall OS (win 98), but after finishing all the sytem files, and rebooting, I got the same message again and again.. (reinstall without formatting) Any help would be appriciated. Jay |
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06-06-2001, 10:38 PM
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Chief News Editor & Master of His Domain
  
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Minnesota
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you have a bad VXD. the quickest thing is to reformat, or at the least delete the windows directory in dos mode then reinstall.
You could go into safe mode, then go to the accessory system, and see if windows will replace the file. You could go into safe mode and do it yourself. You could go into safe mode, run msconfig, and prevent that vxd from booting, and see if if that fixes teh problem, then delete it and replace it.
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06-09-2001, 09:31 PM
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Ensign
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 16
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I would almost bet that if reinstalling windows didn't help that it's a bad memory stick. If you have more than one, pull them out one at a time and try to see if it works. If all else fails go to a local best buy or someplace similar, buy a new stick of ram and try it. You can always return it if you'd like.
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01-31-2002, 02:41 PM
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Ensign
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 34
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i would try low level formating
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01-31-2002, 04:35 PM
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Chief News Editor & Master of His Domain
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 8,161
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so..where were you six months ago, then? I imagine the problem is fixed by now.
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02-01-2002, 03:17 PM
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100% Pure Evil
Join Date: Sep 2000
Posts: 7,861
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/me snatches shovel out of Spikeysash85's hands and breakes it over his head.
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