Problems in WIN 98SE
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 11:03 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave A.
(46 messages posted)
These are my problems:
1. Crystal Fusion Sound is lost from new motherboard installed at the shop last year
in December. I downloaded something from Cirrus web site and when I tried installing,
it gave this error: "The NTKERN.VXD device loader(s) for this device could not load
the device driver. (Code 2)". When I clicked on Update, I got this: "Windows was
unable to locate a driver for this device." That comes even with the CD-ROM in the
bay or if Windows looks in the default location of C:\Program Files. How can a virus
affect the CD-ROM disk itself?
2. I can't fully re-install WIN 98SE from CD-ROM disk because of many, many files
missing that Windows says it can't find (to proceed).
3. Currently, on boot up, a small dialogue box appears on the desktop that says:
"Error loading CWPROPS.CPL. The system cannot find the file specified." I eX the
box away and the computer operates normally.
4. When I try adding those missing files from Add/Remove Programs/Windows Setup,
and the WIN 98SE is in the CD-ROM bay, I get more error messages saying (a certain)
file is missing. There are dozens of files Windows can't find on the CD-ROM disk.
Luckily, no damage was done to all the other programs that are operating normally,
including surfing the Net. But what happened?
Also, my Cookie Jar disappeared and I can't re-install it because clicking on the
.exe file that I saved gives this error message: "Run-time error 429. ActiveX component
can't creat object."
There is another absolutely mysterious fault from all these errors that I can't figure
out. In My Documents, I have over 600 .doc files and 104 folders with more .doc
files. But only one .doc file doesn't open properly, it's frozen. I'm a writer.
That frozen file is a 380 page novel. I have a few more novels of that length that
open normally that I can edit, etc. Fortunately, I found that I can use that corrputed
file if I open it in Preview.
So, with all these errors, I'm just wondering if a virus infected the hard drive
or if the motherboard is defective. I want to figure this thing out before I take
the computer to an expensive repair shop.
Any information from you good people would be a Christmas gift for me. So thanks
for reading this. Best wishes for the Season.
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