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Boot problem
Name: wdc Date: August 12, 2003 at 18:15:20 Pacific OS: Windows 3.1 CPU/Ram: Pentium 1/40MB
Comment:
My Aptiva 214482P (with Windows 3.1) failed to boot; it would stall at the opening “MS 3.1 screen.” But I was still able to get to all my TXT files by booting with a DOS 2.0 diskette in the A-drive and then doing a A:>C command.
But now even that does not work. Now the pc hangs up as soon as the memory test is completed, at which point it issues the error message “ 178 System-security error –VPD not available.”
Q1: What is error 178; what does it mean? What is the VPD? Q2: Any suggestions for fixing it? – I plan to scrap the pc but would first like to copy some of the text fles and erase the rest.
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