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September 7th, 2000 18:00
Help; reinstalling w98 error message
I tried to reinstall w98 from the cd (currently useing w98se) which I do periodically to clear up some laggy performance in the operating system.
This time everything went fine until the final restart where I got the 'windows' screen for a bit then a black screen with this message:
"while initailizing device COFIGMG
windows protection error. restart your machine"
I did a ctl,alt,delete and the comp restarted to the 'safemode menu'. I restarted again from safemode and got the same error message. I read in the help section (in dos i think) that start up problems with devices may be solved by using the power switch to restart so I did that 3 times. But alas the error remained.
so I did a start in safemode cmd prompt and did a scanreg /restore to get back to an old registry which put be back at square one...
but i would still like to reinstall w98....anyone able to help with that error message?
I can't think of anything new or different to the machine, no new hardware at all and only some basic software stuff like upgrading to the latest ie5.5 version.
thanks,
drew
This time everything went fine until the final restart where I got the 'windows' screen for a bit then a black screen with this message:
"while initailizing device COFIGMG
windows protection error. restart your machine"
I did a ctl,alt,delete and the comp restarted to the 'safemode menu'. I restarted again from safemode and got the same error message. I read in the help section (in dos i think) that start up problems with devices may be solved by using the power switch to restart so I did that 3 times. But alas the error remained.
so I did a start in safemode cmd prompt and did a scanreg /restore to get back to an old registry which put be back at square one...
but i would still like to reinstall w98....anyone able to help with that error message?
I can't think of anything new or different to the machine, no new hardware at all and only some basic software stuff like upgrading to the latest ie5.5 version.
thanks,
drew
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September 7th, 2000 19:00
Denny Denham
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September 7th, 2000 20:00
Windows 98 can usually safely be installed over itself. Windows98 SE can usually not be. I have never heard of anyone trying to install Win98 over Win98 SE but I suspect that if you are trying to revert to Win98 you will have to reformat and do a clean install.
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