re: Problems in WIN 98SE
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 11:26 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave A.
(46 messages posted)
To all who replied to this problem:
Thanks very much for your help and troubleshooting tips about my problems with Win
98SE. The response was remarkable.
Well, here’s what happened at the computer shop. It’s a father and son business
with two or three other techs. The son handled my repairs in December 2008 when
the Intel motherboard fried. The son, not consulting his father, decided to install
a modified HP Pavilion motherboard, which wasn’t 100% compatible with my programs
that were purchased for and ran on Win 98SE. He also left the cabling dangle loosely
inside the tower case that should have been connected to two front panel USB ports,
thus depriving me of their use for the past year. Eventually, I believe the incompatibility
of the Pavilion motherboard and Win 98SE programs showed up by crashing programs
and slowing performance generally, and finally the sound went out.
Talking to the father this time, I showed him many printouts of your comments, asked
him to read them, and even told him that he was ripping me off by not having included
a CD of drivers for the motherboard in the first place. He was a nice guy and said
to keep a customer happy he’d repair the thing for no charge. First, he said that
Intel didn’t manufacture the board any longer that I needed. Second, he insisted
that the modified Pavilion board should work fine with Win 98SE. I couldn’t do anything
else but trust him to work on it without further discussion. (I really think C.K.’s
remark that I was being ripped off got to him. Thanks, C.K.!)
A week passed. Finally, the father called me and said he couldn’t fix the problems
so he would have to order and install the original Intel board that came with Sigma
Tel Audio. How do you like that? He must have forgotten that he told me Intel didn’t
manufacture that board any longer. I let it pass, and today he called and said it
was installed, the sound system worked, and to stop by and pick it up. The two front
panel USB ports are now functioning properly again. I ran dxdiag and the test results
showed that “Sound files, Direct Sound, Direct Music” all were successful. Then
I uninstalled Crystal SoundFusion’s program.
Guess that’s it. Thanks again, guys.
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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