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  • June 7, 2000 at 1:22 am #2073668

    While Initializing Device IOS: Windows P

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    by lawrin · about 21 years, 11 months ago

    Our organization has 100 HP Vectra VL5/166 machines. Occasionally, these machines will present with an error on boot up of “While Initializing Device IOS: Windows Protection Error.”

    I have worked on troubleshooting this error and so far have not found a solution. What I have done in the past is to go into the Device Manager and remove the Display device, the network device and the sound card. Then I removed the controller cards from the machine and connected the monitor to the onboard video port. I would then boot up the machine and it would boot up fine. Then I would begin installing each controller card, one at a time, starting with the video card. I would configure the device, then reboot to make sure it would boot. I continued this way with each one of the other controller cards, doing the network card next, any SCSI controller cards, and ending with the sound card. When I got to the sound card, the operating system would detect the card, and I would configure it andthe sound would work

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    • June 7, 2000 at 3:48 am #3893667

      While Initializing Device IOS: Windows P

      by syscokid · about 21 years, 11 months ago

      In reply to While Initializing Device IOS: Windows P

      It’s a real problem. You don’t mention your OS or processor, but

      It could be your mouse:
      http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q143/0/53.asp

      It could be very complicated:
      http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk/support/TechBulletins/tech82.htm

      There could be a quick fix:
      http://www.annamaria.net/tools/Ios.htm

      If you have an AMD processor:
      http://discussions.virtualdr.com/Forum1/HTML/002556.html

    • June 7, 2000 at 4:33 am #3893641

      While Initializing Device IOS: Windows P

      by mtl_webdesign · about 21 years, 11 months ago

      In reply to While Initializing Device IOS: Windows P

      Well it could be as simple as this..

      Free up some conventional memory!!
      I did have this kind of problem once, and started to optimize the startup sequence by freeing up convnetional memory.

      Markus

    • June 7, 2000 at 6:40 am #3893578

      While Initializing Device IOS: Windows P

      by mmccaskill69 · about 21 years, 11 months ago

      In reply to While Initializing Device IOS: Windows P

      Here is a list of items known to cause the error and their fix:

      PROBLEM- If ‘low memory’ is part of the device ios error,

      FIX- Go into safe mode, at the run line type ‘system.ini’, click ok, add this line under [vcache]’maxfilecache=6144′,save, and reboot the system.

      PROBLEM- Resource conflicts (IRQ, I/O address, etc…).

      FIX- Disable any onboard items such as video, sound, and network if a card performing the same function is installed in a slot. Check for duplicate drivers installed under a device in device manager while in safe mode.

      PROBLEM- Driver is corrupt.

      FIX- Reinstall or update the drivers for devices that do not start in safe mode.

      PROBLEM- If client software is installed (Client32) for the network.

      FIX- May need to be reinstalled.

      PROBLEM- If the error came up after installing software and rebooting.

      FIX- Rename smartdrv.exe and restart the system.

      PROBLEM- Random device ios errors.

      FIX- The problem can be caused by bad RAM that would need to be r

    • June 7, 2000 at 7:16 am #3893564

      While Initializing Device IOS: Windows P

      by dlm · about 21 years, 11 months ago

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      I think the conventional memory idea is a good one, Do you have in your config.sys file…
      device=c:\windows\himem.sys
      device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noems
      dos=high,umb
      and any cdrom or other device’s being loaded high (devicehigh=c:\cdrom\driver.sys..)
      and in autoexec.bat, load high commands
      (lh c:\windows\command\mscdex.exe …)
      These are all ways to optimize your conventional memory useage, I have verified that and changed setting acordingly on a number of windows protection errors, and it works about 50% of the time!
      Good Luck…

    • June 7, 2000 at 3:57 pm #3893422

      While Initializing Device IOS: Windows P

      by saihib · about 21 years, 11 months ago

      In reply to While Initializing Device IOS: Windows P

      Check out Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q157924-Err Msg:”IOS Failed to Initialize” on Boot

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