DFastLane
08-21-2001, 10:45 AM
I installed norton antivirus 2001 on a pc yesterday and when it did it's install reboot I got a blue screen vxd error. It booted into safe mode, so I looked at the devices and there were some duplicate entries of some old hardware that used to be in there, so I just deleted the enum key so it could redetect everything and hopefully straighten itself out. The cab files are on the pc. It loaded the basic stuff ok, but when it came to the nic, it froze...several times. So I cracked the case to take everything out but the video card, but then it froze installing the monitor. I looked closer and the cpu fan wasn't working (AMD 450 on an FIC 503 board running win98se). I thought overheating cpu might be the problem and the freeze just happening after it heated up a certain time after boot. Well I replaced the fan, but then noticed that I was getting a windows protection error instead of just a freeze. I've tried a different processor, different memory, different video, even a different motherboard, but I keep getting that error. I put in another win98 drive and got the same thing when it tried to finish loading the hardware. So it acts like it's hardware, but I've tried different everthing in it. Anyway, I've already spent way more time on that box than it's worth, but I'd like to figure it out for the sake of learning what the heck is causing it - i've never had that much hell...