Windows Problem

[chaos]

I'm reformating my drive once again and loading windows 95. When the computer reboots, I get the message: 'While initializing device IOS: Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer.' I've refomatted a few times and I still get this message after loading windows95 and rebooting. What could be causing the problem? Please Advise

[ve6jhc]

Try removing all your cards from the computer except for the video card. This will stop the system from locking up if there is a hardware conflict. Try resetting the BIOS to system defaults as they turn off any high performance features. Once you have windows up and running then you can add your cards back one at a time. I always make a folder on the hard drive called win95cd and copy all the files from the win95 folder on the CD to this folder. This speeds up the install and does make you load the CD in all the time when you add another device.

[Microsoft]

your rams got a problem

thats what a protection error means

[turd]

here is a link, hope this helps: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000359.htm


This is what MS has to say: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q263/4/66.ASP

[chaos]

It's Kingmax PC150 Ram. Thought it was pretty good.

[JigPu]

Protection errors mean bad RAM? I've never had a RAM problem, but after trying to install a second soundcard, then removing it, windows got a proteciton error.... Just re-formatted, re-installed, and everything is peachy again.

As for your problem chaos, have you tried installing windows at your CPU's default speed? I hear that to minimize possible problems, you should get your CPU at stock speed and then install.

One question to the rest of you. Could a protection error be caused by the thing installed on a bad sector? Or would it give you a "cannot find sector" error instead? Just wondering, cuz scandisking could fix that, but with the size of drives nowdays, I don't want to scandisk anything without being sure it needs it.

JigPu