Windows Error Protection

Aaaargh!
Excuse an English teacher's frustration...
When my power supply died, I put in another one and
everything started up nicely except for the modem, which is
recognized by the diagnostics, but would not dial out.

I piddled around to try to get it to work, and at some
point an install driver message came in (I don't remember
why), and from that point on I have been getting a "Windows
Protection Error," not only on that drive, but on another
one that I multiple boot to from the bios.

A third drive, which I didn't mess with - just deleted the
Modem driver and nothing else - works fine with a new
modem, so the hardware side of it is OK.

I went though every one of the steps from the Microsoft
site, using msconfig and deleting things from the config
manager, but nothing seems to work. It comes up fine in
safe mode, but not in anything else. For awhile disabling
things in the system section of the config manger seemed to
work, but then plug and play would put something in and the
error message would come again.

How can I find out what is loading that causes this fault?
I look at the bootlog file, but it's Greek to me. When I
look at the end of the bootlog file, I got this "terminate"
stuff, but I don't know what terminated it.
What should I do? I'm quite competent about roaming around
hard drives, but don't know where to roam at the moment.

Thanks...
Is this the right forum for this info?
Jim

shut down , remove the modem from the system ...boot to "safe mode" remove a
references of the drivers for the modem

shut down

replace modem , boot up and install drivers

post back if no joy


"Jim" wrote in message
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Aaaargh!
Excuse an English teacher's frustration...
When my power supply died, I put in another one and
everything started up nicely except for the modem, which is
recognized by the diagnostics, but would not dial out.

I piddled around to try to get it to work, and at some
point an install driver message came in (I don't remember
why), and from that point on I have been getting a "Windows
Protection Error," not only on that drive, but on another
one that I multiple boot to from the bios.

A third drive, which I didn't mess with - just deleted the
Modem driver and nothing else - works fine with a new
modem, so the hardware side of it is OK.

I went though every one of the steps from the Microsoft
site, using msconfig and deleting things from the config
manager, but nothing seems to work. It comes up fine in
safe mode, but not in anything else. For awhile disabling
things in the system section of the config manger seemed to
work, but then plug and play would put something in and the
error message would come again.

How can I find out what is loading that causes this fault?
I look at the bootlog file, but it's Greek to me. When I
look at the end of the bootlog file, I got this "terminate"
stuff, but I don't know what terminated it.
What should I do? I'm quite competent about roaming around
hard drives, but don't know where to roam at the moment.

Thanks...
Is this the right forum for this info?
Jim

HI!
Thanks...
I did remove the modem at the "remove programs" place, but
not until after I had screwed up the computer.
Would there be references to it in the register that I
could get rid of? or in the "ini" files?
Jim

-----Original Message-----
shut down , remove the modem from the system ...boot to
"safe mode" remove a
references of the drivers for the modem

shut down

replace modem , boot up and install drivers

post back if no joy


"Jim" wrote in message
...
Aaaargh!
Excuse an English teacher's frustration...
When my power supply died, I put in another one and
everything started up nicely except for the modem, which is
recognized by the diagnostics, but would not dial out.

I piddled around to try to get it to work, and at some
point an install driver message came in (I don't remember
why), and from that point on I have been getting a "Windows
Protection Error," not only on that drive, but on another
one that I multiple boot to from the bios.

A third drive, which I didn't mess with - just deleted the
Modem driver and nothing else - works fine with a new
modem, so the hardware side of it is OK.

I went though every one of the steps from the Microsoft
site, using msconfig and deleting things from the config
manager, but nothing seems to work. It comes up fine in
safe mode, but not in anything else. For awhile disabling
things in the system section of the config manger seemed to
work, but then plug and play would put something in and the
error message would come again.

How can I find out what is loading that causes this fault?
I look at the bootlog file, but it's Greek to me. When I
look at the end of the bootlog file, I got this "terminate"
stuff, but I don't know what terminated it.
What should I do? I'm quite competent about roaming around
hard drives, but don't know where to roam at the moment.

Thanks...
Is this the right forum for this info?
Jim


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