Can't load win98 on old P200 Compaq

External Since: May 28, 2004 Posts: 40

Hi,
I've been trying to put a clean install on a friend's old P2 200 mmx system
that was all tangled up.
Here's what I did:
Backed up his data files
Booted with CD support from the startup disk
Formatted the C drive (that's the only drive)
And ran setup

Here's what happens:

It usually gets as far as the plug and play routine and then when it
re-boots if crashes with the following message:
Windows protection error, you must restart your computer
C:\windows\system\vmm32.VXD: missing unable to load

so I reboot with power off then on, and get this:
C:drive himem.sys has detected an unreliable XMS memory @ address 02000022
XMS driver not installed

Here's what I did: The first time I got this I removed the 128 meg stick of
memory from it, and replaced it with a 64 meg stick of Compaq memory. But
it does the same thing. I guess it's possible that both of the memory
sticks are bad, but I'm not so sure.

Any ideas will be much appreciated.

Al

External Since: Aug 18, 2004 Posts: 226

it sounds like:

1 the memory timing my be set too fast- reset the bios to 'default
settings' for now
2 the vmm32.VXD is corrupt on the disk- the disk may be damaged
3 it could be the processor- long shot
4 XMS is 'extended memory controlled by himem.sys this to maybe
damaged.

When the command to load himem.sys is processed
(DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS.......) a message that says "Himem.sys
has detected unreliable XMS memory.....".

The next commands then produce the message that himem.sys is missing.

there is a physical problem with the RAM memory installed in the
computer, and it probably needs to go to a repair shop.

Himem.sys does not load if a memory problem is detected, and this then
results in the other programs having problems because himem.sys is not
loaded

"-Alby Hewlet" wrote in message

> Hi,
> I've been trying to put a clean install on a friend's old P2 200 mmx
system
> that was all tangled up.
> Here's what I did:
> Backed up his data files
> Booted with CD support from the startup disk
> Formatted the C drive (that's the only drive)
> And ran setup
>
> Here's what happens:
>
> It usually gets as far as the plug and play routine and then when it
> re-boots if crashes with the following message:
> Windows protection error, you must restart your computer
> C:\windows\system\vmm32.VXD: missing unable to load
>
> so I reboot with power off then on, and get this:

02000022
> XMS driver not installed
>
> Here's what I did: The first time I got this I removed the 128 meg
stick of
> memory from it, and replaced it with a 64 meg stick of Compaq
memory. But
> it does the same thing. I guess it's possible that both of the
memory
> sticks are bad, but I'm not so sure.
>
> Any ideas will be much appreciated.
>
> Al
>
>
>
>