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
