re: Problems in WIN 98SE
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 9:11 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave A.
(46 messages posted)
Thanks to all who replied. I need time to absorb the information and act on it while
I find the answers to those questions. A bit more info might help: The old motherboard
was INTEL and all its drivers on the CD-ROMs that they left me are not compatible
with the new one whose processor is AMD Athlon XP 2000+. The INTEL board had SIGMATEL
sound files. The new one has Crystal SoundFusion sound files. This sound system
must use the file "Rundll32cwprops.cpl,CrystalControlwnd." This file shows up in
msconfig/Startup and also in Startup Programs that says that the file is loaded from
"Registry [Machine Run]," and the command is that "Rundll32..." etc. mentioned earlier.
I searched for the entire line in Registry, but it wasn't found. I searched for
"Rundll32cwprops.cpl" and that wasn't found, and a search for "cwprops.cpl" by itself
didn't produce any result either. So that sound file apparently had disappeared
from the computer somehow. After a while, I'll post back with what else I found
or will do. Thanks again.
On Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 11:03 am, Dave A. wrote:
>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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