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Windows ME: Pain!

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by briang00

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I have an AMD Athlon 950Mhz system, 128 MD ram, 30 Ghz hd. Have Windows ME on it. Started getting the following error when I would shut it down:
"WINDOWS PROTECTION ERROR. YOU NEED TO
RESTART YOUR COMPUTER" When I
go to shut down the computer.
happens after no particular program has been run.
Thought it happened just
after playing a graphics intense game ie Quake 3
Now it seems to be happening more often.
I have reinstalled Windows ME, and even formatted the hard drive. I still get the message after a few months. Dont know if it is a particular program that I have loaded that causes it.

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by curtis

Microsoft has posted Knowledge Base articles concering your Errors, they are Q298839 and Q149962. They both discuss Protection errors in ME and have possible solutions. Do you by chance have Panda or McAfee anti-virus loaded ??
The above mentioned articles can be viewed at http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?fr=0&SD=GN&LN=EN-US and then type in the articles mentioned above.
Hope this helps

by dmiles

The problem may exist with Quake 3 game and the driver support from Win ME,check to make sure that you have the latest DOS files,also remember this upgrade was using les of dos mode drivers.

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