WIN95 Startup (W95)

[spazmatt]

i just install WIN 95 on my comp and when starting it up for the first time i got this error message:

"While initialzing device IOS:
Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer."

i dont know what to do!! Please help! Thank You

[tom_keefer]

"i just install WIN 95 on my comp and when starting it up for the first time i got this error message:

"While initialzing device IOS:
Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer."
i dont know what to do!! Please help! Thank You"

Did you restart your computer?


<font color=purple>Tom</font color=purple>


ya'aa'tey

XP Pro SP2 - Intel D925XCV - P4 2.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, HTT, socket 775 - WD 36GB Raptor - 1GB Crucial DDR2 PC2-4200 - Plextor 716A - Chaintech NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT -Samsung 19" LCD -

[spazmatt]

of course! and i get the same error message each time. should i try to reinstall win95?

[tom_keefer]

Wouldn't hurt. It sounds like the installation didn't finalize.

<font color=purple>Tom</font color=purple>


ya'aa'tey

XP Pro SP2 - Intel D925XCV - P4 2.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, HTT, socket 775 - WD 36GB Raptor - 1GB Crucial DDR2 PC2-4200 - Plextor 716A - Chaintech NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT -Samsung 19" LCD -

[spazmatt]

alright well i have done it right 3 or 4 times now and i keep getting the same error message. it is WIN95b i just dont know what to do i really want this to work! thanks again

[tom_keefer]

OK, see if <a target="_blank" href=http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?id=4736>this fix</a> solves the problem.

<font color=purple>Tom</font color=purple>


ya'aa'tey

XP Pro SP2 - Intel D925XCV - P4 2.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, HTT, socket 775 - WD 36GB Raptor - 1GB Crucial DDR2 PC2-4200 - Plextor 716A - Chaintech NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT -Samsung 19" LCD -

[spazmatt]

well that should fix the problem, but it wont let me start it in safe mod, i get the same error message. and i can't figure it out going throught the command prompt. i say "edit config.sys" and this thing launchs, but there is no data in there, it is all blank. what should i do now??

[tom_keefer]

It's been over 10 years since I had anything to do with WIN95. Do you know whether or not it can be clean installed? Or do you have to reformat, re-install Win 3.2 and then upgrade to WIN95? One other thing to check is the condition of the WIN95 CD. Is it scratched? I had an XP Home CD that was scratched and scuffed to the extent that it wouldn't complete the installation process. I had to by a new retail disk.






































































<font color=purple>Tom</font color=purple>


ya'aa'tey

XP Pro SP2 - Intel D925XCV - P4 2.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, HTT, socket 775 - WD 36GB Raptor - 1GB Crucial DDR2 PC2-4200 - Plextor 716A - Chaintech NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT -Samsung 19" LCD -

[BertImmenschuh]

For what it's worth, Win95B and 95C were not available as Upgrades or in the Retail channels, only as an OEM version, and wouldn't upgrade Windows 3.11 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and earlier. Seems it had to do with the 'new' FAT32 support, guess Microsoft was afraid of letting end-users get ahold of it. If the CD has a brand name on it such as Dell, Gateway, HP, etc., it probably will install only on that brand computer and maybe only on certain models.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>

[monkey_1]

Many options:

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Try disconnecting all the devices attached to the computer except for the graphics card, hard disk, monitor, mouse and keyboard and boot the computer...

<font color=orange>Mono</font color=orange>

[spazmatt]

alright, well i think i am going to just give up on this one, nothing seems to work :( :( but thanks for all of the help and ideas

[monkey_1]

Do you have an AMD processor?

<font color=orange>Mono</font color=orange>

[BertImmenschuh]

Good question, Mono, I just installed Win95B on a computer and it wouldn't take the AMD K6-2/550MHz CPU but works fine with the AMD K6-2/266MHz CPU. I then recalled there was a problem with the AMD 350MHz and faster so I dug into the 'net and found an explanation:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUServicePacks/AMDPatch/Default.asp (http://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/11/17/updated_amd_k62s_crash/>http://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/11/17/updated_amd_k62s_crash/</a>

Also).

I didn't notice his CPU mentioned on his other post either but that could explain it.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>

[spazmatt]

Actually, i have a Pentium 4 with hyper threading. could the hyper threading be causing this problem in anyway?

[BertImmenschuh]

It's entirely possible, don't think Win9x supports it. Can that be turned off in the BIOS?

This is a case of older-is-better.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>

[monkey_1]

"...Actually, i have a Pentium 4 with hyper threading. could the hyper threading be causing this problem in anyway?..."

Why install Win95?

<font color=orange>Mono</font color=orange>

[PastaBoy4]

win 95 has no support for HT witch is why on boot up it doesn't know what to do cuple of options if you have the option of disabling the HT in the bios or downgrading to a non HT chip like a P4 2.4 or 2.66 you should not have to switch boards or anything and still be able to work with Win95 if that is the OS you need other option is to go to Win 98 witch I belive would support HT and no it will still be compatible to win 95

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