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by rel blackmane

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I am an A+ technician at a computer sales shop. My home computer(700 MHz Celeron, 256 MB Ram)is getting all glitchy with errors, and I'm stuck.
I religiously check for corrupt .dll's and run system checks and defrags regularly. My system has started to get get GPFs at the rate of at least 1/hr. I'm getting page fault errors and stack dumps in the details of program shutdown faults.
I have tried to re-install Windows 4 times now, and end up at the same blue screen:
"Invalid VxD dynamic link from VWIN32(01) + 00000714 to device "009", service 1".
Windows asks me to run setup again, and again, etc.
I can't afford to lose the programs I have.
How do I fix?

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by dmiles

Open the CMOS control panel at startup,locate line to Disable Hidden Refresh Option In Computer CMOS Settings.
this could be caused by 16bit wave files becoming corrupt.

by >@ >@ gone fishing @< @<

Try and ghost your Hard Drive to another disk, borrow a drive from work, also get different memory and swap it out before starting the install.

Another thing you can do with a spare drive is install it instead and try to install win98, if this goes through without issue, you know its your Hard Drive(worst case senario), if it also fails than it is another component in your system causing the fault, ie memory, video memory ect...

Have you tried installing to a different directory on the Hard Drive, ie "Windows 2" instead of overwriting your existing setup?

Good Luck

by steven

It is most likely another program that you installed that is causing your errors. Sound and Video seem to easily mess up windows98. Networking is also a problem.

by mike (from canada)

Are you running corrupted files? Sometimes, when a corrupted compressed file is fixed, it cant uncompress properly because the checksums are screwed. so if you are decompressing files and using them with the correct application, then that might be the problem. and If you re-install windows, make sure EVERY windows file is deleted before a reinstallation. Also, make sure that your motherboard and your cards are working correctly. have you thought of replacing your computer?

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