vmm32.vxd error

[Floppyman]

Hey all,

I finally got my laptop working last night and decided to install windows 98. The installation went fine to a point, where I had to reboot and I got a windows protection error regarding to the file vmm32.vxd. I rebooted, went with the confirmation boot option, and I didn't get error. As I tried to finish setup, I needed the mouse. I didn't have the mouse the whole setup, I thought since this was a laptop it the little flat mouse pad thing may not have been detected, but I was wrong. Went into the bios, and surely the PS/2 mouse was disabled. Enabled it, went back to setup and I could use the flat panel mouse on the laptop. Everything works great now, as matter of fact I'm typing this post on the laptop. Could this vmm32.vxd file have been related to the mouse somehow? If not, what does it relate to? Thanks in Advance!

[Carl Price]

I'm glad it's working for you Floppyman! Congratulations!

[winston]

Heres some information about vmm32.vdx I found on this web site:
http://www.infinisource.com/techfiles/vmm32.html


Vmm32.vxd is a monolithic driver file made up of a number of various *.vxd files. It is a W4 format archive using the MRCI compression of Drivespace. However, to keep things simple, you can think of it as a archive of different *.vxd files combined into one library file that can loaded as one file but that the individual files within it can be used as if they were individually loaded. Basically vmm32.vxd just contains a collection of different *.vxd files your system needs for startup, each file is stripped of the headers that are required if that same file was loaded separately. Between the stripped headers and the compression used in vmm32.vxd it is considerably smaller that all the individual files, contributing to its faster load time.

[Floppyman]

Thanks guys,


Hmmm, I wonder now why I got that error, or what may have caused that error? Everything works fine now, happened only during setup? Any ideas?
Thanks again.


BTW Carl, got the hub powersupply yesterday, hub works A-ok as well, thanks again.