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Win ME reinstall problems
Over the weekend I reinstalled WIN ME (winver 4.90.3000) using the original
CD, as the only possible solution to a myriad of continuing and unresolvable problems. After many hours of waiting for all the default installations to be processed and installed there were several error messages on the screen as displayed he 1. A required .dll file, WINSPOOL.DRV was not found. 2. Error loading POWRPROF.DLL cannot be found. 3. Microsoft windows cannot find IFSHLP.SYS process has stopped 4. A SUWIN error has occurred 5. A General Protection Fault has occurred in module VERX.DLL @ 002:24AE The following is true; Safe mode is accessible ONLY with the words in the four corners, however, there are no icons on the screen. I can hear the normal windows wav file used for a normal boot but then nothing happens after that. I also tried using the DOS command scanreg /restore but that also failed. Booting using the access to the CD drive I have access to DOS and all the drives on the PC and that seems to function properly. In almost all instances PC boots to a blue screen, (not the blue screen of death) with the mouse cursor visible but inoperabale. I tried booting from the CD directories and from C: drive directories, all attempts resulted in failure. Typing autoexec.bat shows the commands, but I can't discern if the commands are correct. The scandisk command seems to work correctly according to the feedback. Some of the files listed as errors are in the directories, not sure if they are in the correct locations though, how can I ensure that are where they supposed to be? Have forgotten all DOS commands over the past 20 years other than those above. Any help and suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you! |
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Power down and try thowing all your peripherals - particularly your
printer - off, (except Kbd, Mouse, Video card and even your Sound Card if it uses 'special' drivers) and re-boot. See if that helps, then re-introduce one item at a time. BTW - You can't boot into WinMe from the Startup (flopp) Disk, you must boot from the C: drve as normal. Mart "Cheshire cat" wrote in message ... Over the weekend I reinstalled WIN ME (winver 4.90.3000) using the original CD, as the only possible solution to a myriad of continuing and unresolvable problems. After many hours of waiting for all the default installations to be processed and installed there were several error messages on the screen as displayed he 1. A required .dll file, WINSPOOL.DRV was not found. 2. Error loading POWRPROF.DLL cannot be found. 3. Microsoft windows cannot find IFSHLP.SYS process has stopped 4. A SUWIN error has occurred 5. A General Protection Fault has occurred in module VERX.DLL @ 002:24AE The following is true; Safe mode is accessible ONLY with the words in the four corners, however, there are no icons on the screen. I can hear the normal windows wav file used for a normal boot but then nothing happens after that. I also tried using the DOS command scanreg /restore but that also failed. Booting using the access to the CD drive I have access to DOS and all the drives on the PC and that seems to function properly. In almost all instances PC boots to a blue screen, (not the blue screen of death) with the mouse cursor visible but inoperabale. I tried booting from the CD directories and from C: drive directories, all attempts resulted in failure. Typing autoexec.bat shows the commands, but I can't discern if the commands are correct. The scandisk command seems to work correctly according to the feedback. Some of the files listed as errors are in the directories, not sure if they are in the correct locations though, how can I ensure that are where they supposed to be? Have forgotten all DOS commands over the past 20 years other than those above. Any help and suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you! |
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Ooops... that should have read " try thowing all your peripherals INCLUDING
your Sound Card if it uses 'special' drivers" Mart "Mart" wrote in message ... Power down and try thowing all your peripherals - particularly your printer - off, (except Kbd, Mouse, Video card and even your Sound Card if it uses 'special' drivers) and re-boot. See if that helps, then re-introduce one item at a time. BTW - You can't boot into WinMe from the Startup (flopp) Disk, you must boot from the C: drve as normal. Mart "Cheshire cat" wrote in message ... Over the weekend I reinstalled WIN ME (winver 4.90.3000) using the original CD, as the only possible solution to a myriad of continuing and unresolvable problems. After many hours of waiting for all the default installations to be processed and installed there were several error messages on the screen as displayed he 1. A required .dll file, WINSPOOL.DRV was not found. 2. Error loading POWRPROF.DLL cannot be found. 3. Microsoft windows cannot find IFSHLP.SYS process has stopped 4. A SUWIN error has occurred 5. A General Protection Fault has occurred in module VERX.DLL @ 002:24AE The following is true; Safe mode is accessible ONLY with the words in the four corners, however, there are no icons on the screen. I can hear the normal windows wav file used for a normal boot but then nothing happens after that. I also tried using the DOS command scanreg /restore but that also failed. Booting using the access to the CD drive I have access to DOS and all the drives on the PC and that seems to function properly. In almost all instances PC boots to a blue screen, (not the blue screen of death) with the mouse cursor visible but inoperabale. I tried booting from the CD directories and from C: drive directories, all attempts resulted in failure. Typing autoexec.bat shows the commands, but I can't discern if the commands are correct. The scandisk command seems to work correctly according to the feedback. Some of the files listed as errors are in the directories, not sure if they are in the correct locations though, how can I ensure that are where they supposed to be? Have forgotten all DOS commands over the past 20 years other than those above. Any help and suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you! |
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Also - Since you would appear to be doing an over-the-top install of ME, I
recommend reading the advice here! http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm (Hint - you have IE6 and WMP9 installed) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Mart" wrote in message ... Ooops... that should have read " try thowing all your peripherals INCLUDING your Sound Card if it uses 'special' drivers" Mart "Mart" wrote in message ... Power down and try thowing all your peripherals - particularly your printer - off, (except Kbd, Mouse, Video card and even your Sound Card if it uses 'special' drivers) and re-boot. See if that helps, then re-introduce one item at a time. BTW - You can't boot into WinMe from the Startup (flopp) Disk, you must boot from the C: drve as normal. Mart "Cheshire cat" wrote in message ... Over the weekend I reinstalled WIN ME (winver 4.90.3000) using the original CD, as the only possible solution to a myriad of continuing and unresolvable problems. After many hours of waiting for all the default installations to be processed and installed there were several error messages on the screen as displayed he 1. A required .dll file, WINSPOOL.DRV was not found. 2. Error loading POWRPROF.DLL cannot be found. 3. Microsoft windows cannot find IFSHLP.SYS process has stopped 4. A SUWIN error has occurred 5. A General Protection Fault has occurred in module VERX.DLL @ 002:24AE The following is true; Safe mode is accessible ONLY with the words in the four corners, however, there are no icons on the screen. I can hear the normal windows wav file used for a normal boot but then nothing happens after that. I also tried using the DOS command scanreg /restore but that also failed. Booting using the access to the CD drive I have access to DOS and all the drives on the PC and that seems to function properly. In almost all instances PC boots to a blue screen, (not the blue screen of death) with the mouse cursor visible but inoperabale. I tried booting from the CD directories and from C: drive directories, all attempts resulted in failure. Typing autoexec.bat shows the commands, but I can't discern if the commands are correct. The scandisk command seems to work correctly according to the feedback. Some of the files listed as errors are in the directories, not sure if they are in the correct locations though, how can I ensure that are where they supposed to be? Have forgotten all DOS commands over the past 20 years other than those above. Any help and suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you! |
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