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Originally posted by Panama Red
Think the reference to problems over 2.1 (not 1.2 as stated by yellowhut) comes from problems that were corrected by a MS patch for the NDIS.VXD.
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You're the man!!!
Spent 4.5 hours reloading windows to recover from yesterday's problems encountered when reloading drivers etc.
After reloading, went into the BIOS and enabled L1/L2. Which I originally disabled. UGH Disabling this is the only way it would install windows. Thought there was only one cache in celeron. DUH
Anyway, with L1/L2 enabled, booting windows caused "windows protection error" while loading ndis.vxd. Booted in safe mode and performance was great. Booted again using line by line prompts and deselected ndis devices as they were being enabled. System booted fine and performance is great.
Found exact problem described on MS web site (as panama red alludes to) for processor faster than 2.1G but it appears to require a call into microsoft to get a fix. They acknowledge it is a problem with the OS but still require a service call rather than just posting a download. Unless anyone else has seen this and has the patch, guess I'll have to wait until monday and give them a call.
Thanks for all the help.
Microsoft's summary is:
SYMPTOMS
When you are installing Windows 95 or Windows 98 on a computer that has a CPU that runs at 2.2 gigahertz (GHz) or faster, you may receive the following error message:
While initializing device NDIS: Windows protection error
CAUSE
The timing calibration code in the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver causes a divide by zero if the CPU runs at 2.2 GHz or faster. This problem does not occur with CPUs that run at 2.1 GHz or slower.
RESOLUTION
Windows 98
A supported fix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Apply it only to computers that are experiencing this specific problem.
