I'm receiving a Windows Protection Error on a Packard Bell 814 Legend CD Computer. I recently updated the Bios on the Drive for year 2000 compliance. (PhoenixPhlash Bios 1.20) When I attempted to reboot the machine after this update however, I received the following error message. While initializing device VTD: Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. I attempted to then restart the computer in Safe Mode yet was still given this message. At this point, I attempted to reinstall Windows 95 from the Command Prompt. Yet even after the reinstallation, I was unable to forge past this error message. At this point, (Per request of an internet chat room) I reset my CMOS and Plug and Play information using my Norton Utilities Emergency Repair Disk, yet I am still at a loss to gain any control over my computer system. .....S.O.S. I NEED HELP.....

flashing bios is best followed by reboot in bios reset to bios defaults save and reboot go into bios and set values as they should be. VTD concerns ONLY REMOVABLE media so check the entries in bios to do with cd drives and floppies or if hard drives are set as cdroms. autodetect your ide devices . check the floppies are specified correctly eg not as 1.2 if they are 1.44mb. or that you have an entry for a b-drive when there isn't one in your pc. VTD=volume Tracking Device

I have the same error message as Imhotep. I wish I knew what I had done to make that happen. Please excuse my ignorance, but where do I reset the BIOS to default values? And could you give more detail about your saying "set values as they should be"? Do you mean that I have to set the some of the variables to certain values after I first set them to default and reboot? If that is what you mean, how will I know the values to set to BIOS to?

I got the VTD Windows Protection Error and it turned out to be a bad memory stick....go figure.