I'm also having the suwin general protection fault in module setupx.dll. I have tried booting from floppy, booting from a sys'd hdd with cd drivers loaded, I've tried win 98 and win 95 osr2. I've used win95 startup floppy and win98 startup floppy. There is no virus protection turned on and I've gone through safe recovery several times. It continually gives me the error after I have selected setup options and given name details etc. It then tells me it's preparing to copy files and that's fine. Then, it gives me 0% files copied and the suwin error. It's also a brand new HDD running a boot manager, the one supplied by the manufacturer, but I've also tried 2 different brand HDD's. Maxtor and Seagate, each with the manufacturer's boot managers installed. Same thing every time. Responses appreciated.

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Thanx It was just that setup didn't like caching enabled.

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You need a Mcafee Emergency Boot Disk! You have to boot from a clean virus protection disk and remove the virus. Another way would be to delete the Partition, power off the system, power back on, and boot from a CLEAN floppy with system files, format.com, and fdisk.exe. You will have to create this floppy on another pc not infected. -=Stèvè- [Network/Software Analyst] -MCP

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I'm also having this SUWIN bug. I already tried all the suggestions even correct date and correct PID number. I'm building a pc with a ACER/IBM mother bd and a AMD K6/533 3D processor with 128 sdram PC100 mem. The MS site has a patch for win95 but I haven't seen one for win 98, any help will be appreciated. I also tried win95 and still see this error and since I can't load any version of windows I can't use the win95 patch. Thanks for any help on this.

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in your config.sys on your boot disk add these lines. files=50 buffers=50 don´t ask me why but I had this problem and that worked.

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Please help me! I've got this error message: Applecation Error SUWIN caused General Protection Fault in module KRNL386.exe at 0001:4629

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Yes I had all these problems when attempting to install win98 onto a freshly partitioned and formatted hard drive. SUWIN errors and General Protection Faults. Had nightmares for days. However, in the end the following worked for me: I disabled the external cache in BIOS. Win98 then loaded OK if a little slowly. After installation I enabled the cache, only to find more General Protection Faults. To solve this I lowered the speed of my CPU in BIOS and then enabled the external cache. Everything worked and after doing this I went back into BIOS and restored the correct CPU speed. And so everything was back to how it should be... Everything is now fine and working like a dream. There is definitely a conflict between win98 and cache - it doesn't seem to like it being enabled. Hope this works for others. Al

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I tryed all above suggestion, but nothing change, finally i resolve it only changing the position of DIMM on the motherboard slot.

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The same problem still exisits in Windows 2000 and also in Windows ME. Thank you all for your posts here as you all helped me out greatly. I have been messing with this system for I swear at least a week and the solution for me was the same as a few others mentioned here. I went into BIOS and disabled external cache and slowed my processor down (just 50 Mhz slower) and started over. Reinstalled Windows ME an not so much as a peep from the machine. A perfect installl. (Hadn't seen one of those for a while) I think it was just the cache that made the difference, not the processor, but I saw it in someones post, and just figured as long as I was there. But...who knows. Which ever it was I thank you all!! Rokinroj

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I just bought an Abit VH-6 from Accubyte.com and I'm having trouble setting up Win 98se - Components installed - Abit VH-6 PIII 600eb 2X 128MB pc133 SDRAM DIMMS 3dfx Voodoo 5500 AGP Quantum Fireball 10.2G hard drive HP 8210 r/w cd -formatted drive (ie clean install) Windows keeps giving me an error message during setup (at different points during the process) - this is an excerpt from the Microsoft support page: "SUWIN An error has occurred in your application. If you choose ignore you should save your work in a new file. If you choose close, your application will terminate. SUWIN caused a general protection fault in module SETUPX.DLL SUWIN caused a general protection fault in module KRNL386.exe" I've also seen: "SUWIN caused a general protection fault in module USER.exe" I am A+ certified, and I've got a PC Technician certificate, so I'm sure there must be an incorrect BIOS setting. I've tried to systematically change one setting after the other and then try the install, to try to narrow it down, and almost each time the setup process would go one or two steps further, but I'm really just guessing wich BIOS setting is causing this (RAM settings?).I've also tried to set the BIOS to the "Load Fail Safe Defaults"; and that didn't work, either. The POST page checks out ok, I mean it's finding the hardware I've got installed so far. I've also copied the WIN98se directory over to a new WIN98se directory, so I narrow my problems trying to read from the CD, but that wasn' t it either. So, if you people can offer any light on this problem that would be great, and if there's anything I've left out (short of finding a way to print out my BIOS pages) please let me know. Thanks, Bryan

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Ok - I just disabled the L2 cache last night, and Win98se installed perfectly. The only exception - I had to remove one of the 128/pc133 sdram sticks 'cause I kept getting a "fatal exception error" when the stick was plugged in, and I tried moving it to a different slot, but I still got the error message. It may be a bad stick but does anyone have any suggestions before I try to send it back to my supplier?

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I had the same errors - SUWIN general protection fault, application will close. I disabled the cache and I was able to install. However, when I enabled cache, it locks up on the starting windows 98 screan. Any more suggestions?

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If disabling the cache allowed it to install, then most likely you need a new motherboard.

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