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re: error on startup and others about setupx.dll Monday, March 23, 2009 at 5:24 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) zeron wrote: |bought my computer and i accidentally turned it on |but i did managed to turn it off the safe way though. | It sounds like you have *never* seen Windows running on this unit. True? |then the next time i turned it on it says something like |"Please wait while windows build a driver information" or somethin | If you expect to get _good_ help, *do* get out a piece of paper and WRITE DOWN THE EXACT ERROR MESSAGES YOU GET. |but after it finishes it gives me an error about msgrsv2 or somethin | Again EXACT error messages are useful. |then it said ignore or close but i cant click ignore! |when i click close it gives me the report and it said something about setupx.dll | It wants you to reinstall Windows. See *never* (above). |and then i tried new hardware it gives me the same error but with rundll32! | You could waste a lot of your time AND OURS monkeying around with this AND STILL NOT GET IT FIXED **or** you could go ahead and reinstall Windows as it requested. ...of course, you have all of your DATA backed up to external media so this should be no problem. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: error on startup and others about setupx.dll Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 6:53 pm Posted by Lee (172 messages posted) If this only happened once, don't worry so much. If it happens a lot, you have a better chance to write down the exact "or somethin " and post a better question with that written down information. Half started computers don't count in other words. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum