bughunta

Hi all

Used FDISK and FORMAT on a 20 GB hard drive. No problems and have one active partition, which I re-formatted. All well. I have several windows CD's. (W98, W98 SE, and W2K pro) plus several boot disks for 98. Have been using W2K Pro for over a year. Wanted a change for old game reasons, W2K Pro not the best for games support as you know.

Changed options in Advanced Setup to read floppy 1st, and then did a clean install with the W98 SE CD. All went well. However, after one of several restarts during the phase of me adding drivers (from the setup disk that came with the MB (I built the PC myself) there is a problem. Before the PC reaches the desk top, there is a black screen appears with white writing. The message is quite long and say something like;

'There is a problem with SYSTEM.INI. Some files failed to load, try uninstalling relevant applications, blah blah blah'. It then says;

vredir.vxd Press any key to continue.

When I press any key the same message reappears, only this time the file is

dfs.vxd

After pressing any key, it eventually completes boot up but just before desktop a box appears saying msnp32.dll is missing.

I OK that box and normal service is resumed. What have I done wrong?

Don't mean to answer my own question here, but I'm guessing its related to the drivers? Motherboard is PC Chips crap and was replaced twice by shop years ago before I got one that actually installed.

Obviously I shall go back and install W2K Pro if all else fails but I dont like to give up with W98 SE so quickly if I can help it.

Many thanks in advance

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idtent

Right click on network neighborhood and select properties. (If you have no nethood icon, go to control panel and select network).

In there what is listed?

Should be
Client for Microsoft Networks
Dial-Up Adapter (Maybe, doesn't have to be here though)
(Network card name)(if you have a network card)
TCP/ip (one for dialup if present and one for network)
File and Print sharing (if you have enabled)

If these are all there, remove client for ms networks and reboot when you ok everything. Upon reboot go back to control panel, networks, click add and select client for ms networks. Follow the instructions, reboot.

bughunta

Hi idtent

Appreciate that. Managed to sort it out this afternoon myself but thanks anyway. Went into networking, removed what was there, and then reinstalled it. Didnt actually remove the one you said but the one below it, 'dial up adapter'.

I also typed sfc into 'Run' and had all the setup files checked and repaired.

Bottom line is something has worked!

One change since all of this. When I click on the Internet Explore icon and the PC dials up, it says the usual things and when it connect it says ' Verifying user name and password' which it always does of course. However, it now asks that twice in 2 seconds, and after the 2nd time hangs for over a minute before finally connecting. Thereafter it is fine.

To be honest I'm glad it's all working and it isn't actually my PC, I was repairing it for a friend. But it would be nice to have it dialling up 'normally'.

Thanks again

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idtent

Go to your dial up connections. Right click it and select properties. Uncheck the "Logon to Network" and the only thing below with a check should be tcp/ip. Uncheck the others in that bottom three except the tcp/ip.

bughunta

idtent - you are the man!

From hanging for over a minute to home page in 2 seconds, very impressive...

Much appreciated

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idtent

Glad to hear it...