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| Thread ID: 31796 | 2003-04-01 02:51:00 | Win95 General Protection Error - Is my PC not 95 compatible? | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 132560 | 2003-04-01 02:51:00 | Well... Seeing as I only have the Win95 Drivers for my TV card, I thought I'd be a clever cookie and install Win95 on my PC. Only It did the 'getting ready to run Windows for the first time' thing (When we really know it'll need another good 2-3 reboots ;-)) and then it came up with this: While initializing device IOS: Windows Protection Error. You will need to restart your PC (Or something very similar to that..) Now, I thought that was odd.. rebooted... it did it again... I disabled a whole lot of stuff in my BIOS... it got in in Safe Mode but warned me I needed to be in Normal Mode to add the hardware, so reboot and it did it again. Meanwhile I've lost my Win2K boot Loader so I wasnt very happy. Ran a Win2K repair and it remade the BL with Win 95 at the bottom... so I knew I had Win2K back if stuff went really wrong.. rebooted into 95 and same error again.. with all the hardware still disabled (onboard stuff I mean.. Com ports, Floppy Drive Controller etc.) so I re-enabled it.. rebooted.. same stuff... Back into Win2K and I get a BSOD something about IRQ_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS or something.. Power off... And it turns out now that after every time Ive tried to go into Win95, I have to actually turn off the power or I get that BSOD in Win2K. Turning it off means its fine, but Ctrl + Alt + Del and it shows up :( Now, anyways.. How can I get my PC running Win95? Here's the Hardware specs: 10 Gig HDD (partitioned, with the second being 1.7 gigs and Win95 installed on it) 6.5Gig HDD (partitioned.. all other partitions except the Win95 one are FAT32, Win95's is FAT16). nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 SE-T K75SA motherboard My Spitfire TV Card SB!Live SoundCard RealTek Network Card DVD-ROM drive 512MB SD-RAM (Im pretty sure Win9x wont recognise or use it all but I dont really care right now) And I think that's about it?! What might be going wrong here? Im using a PS/2 mouse/keyboard, have unplugged the WebCam and WLAN card... What else? Any suggestions or things I should know? BTW - This version of Win95 has USB support :-) Thanks Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 132561 | 2003-04-01 03:48:00 | I would suggest checking that 'PnP OS Installed' is disabled in the BIOS before starting. Make sure you have motherboard drivers installed prior to installing any other devices. Can you get hold of Windows 98SE or Windows ME? Those would likely use your Windows 95 TV card drivers OK and support your system a bit better. |
BIFF (1) | ||
| 132562 | 2003-04-01 04:22:00 | Okay, I have drivers... for 98 I know.. 95 I could always get from the web. I have a spare 3 gig FAT32 Partition so I might install 98SE on that, try and get them both going. I'll then try the 95 drivers in 98 :-) Thanks Biff :-) Ah, and I'll check the PnP OS too! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 132563 | 2003-04-01 20:57:00 | Okay, Thanks for your Advice. I removed the PnP OS Installed option in my BIOS (Diabled it..) and 95 still threw wobblies, but that's okay, when Installing Win98 SE to a 4th Partition, it wiped Win95 from my Boot Loader configuration. Anyways.. Aside from downloading the nVidia drivers for Win9x, and the SB!Live drivers (Which dont work anyways, so Im using the Onboard AC '97 which is nowhere near as good!) Ive still gotta sort out the USB stuff (NTkern.VxD is not installed right..) and Im sweet. Thanks for the suggestion of Win98 - Ive been playing my Nintendo 64 most of the night (And if Im tired today - Its your fault ;-)) Thanks Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 132564 | 2003-04-02 00:14:00 | You don't mention the cpu type but assuming it is greater than 1gig you won't have too much joy with Win95. There is a way where you under clock the cpu then apply a patch and then set the cpu clock back again. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 132565 | 2003-04-02 01:26:00 | Win95 needed an update for AMD CPU's 350MHz and higher. The higher the speed of the CPU the less likely you'll get into Windows (Not Safe Mode) to install the patch. You would need to slow the CPU speed down if possible. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 132566 | 2003-04-02 03:06:00 | Aha. So W95 needs the CPU to be slowed down artificially. The modern OSs slow the CPU down by sheer bulk of code. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 132567 | 2003-04-02 07:13:00 | LOL! Well, Ive ditched Win95 for now and am seeming okay with Win98 except for my SB!Live not being recognised (With the 19 meg driver download from online) and the USB! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 132568 | 2003-04-02 10:28:00 | Hi Win 95 problem was with AMD K6 11 cpu's above 350mhz which needed to be underclocked patched and clocked to speed again. Had me stumped for about a week a couple of years back. If your interested follow the links zdnet.com.com www.microsoft.com Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 132569 | 2003-04-02 22:39:00 | Lol - Thanks, I think Im gonna stick with Win98 for the time being and try to get the bugger sorted out correctly with multiple monitors! Thanks Murray, I've bookmarked that site, as Im sure I'll need it again! Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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