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Name: Cato Hope Date: August 2, 2000 at 09:16:20 Pacific
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Same thing happened to me. I have an AMD K7-800, 256MB RAM, And the cause to the problem: my Creative 3D Blaster Riva TNT2 Ultra graphics card. The Win98 drivers didn't work, and when I "searched for a better driver", it found the NVIDIA driver and guess what? It worked! Almost...everything seemed to work OK except the games that ran OpenGL. Anyway, what people have told me, is that there is an AGP bug in ME. In your BIOS you can find something called "AGP Aparture Size" or something like that (4-8-16-32-64-128-256MB) My card has 32MB Video Memory, therefore this setting would be 32MB. If the setting is set to "AUTO", I think ME thinks you have 64MB on your card and f---s itself up. Hope this has been to any help :)
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Name: William Kuhn Date: August 3, 2000 at 14:43:04 Pacific
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Same thing here. ME isn't compatible with a lot of programs I used. I found doing a clean install worked. When you reinstall programs and try to use them you willknow which apps are not compatible. For me it was Nortan Antivirus and Utilites 2000.
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Name: Cesar Date: September 15, 2000 at 21:33:48 Pacific
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I had yhe same problem with Norton Utilities 2000. When I did run WinDoctor it destroy windows ME.
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Name: Jim Ebbitt Date: September 17, 2000 at 18:46:03 Pacific
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same here. Tons of trouble installing ME. When it did finally make it through, all I could get was blue screen - windows protection error. Even locked up trying to get into safe mode. The only part of Win ME to work flawlessly was the UNINSTALL option. It is now off and I will be trying to get a refund. 98SE for me....
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Name: Bob E Date: September 26, 2000 at 19:49:58 Pacific
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Same Same, Windows ME trashed my system. Even after formating, and a clean install I can't keep it running. Microsoft SUCKS !!!!!
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Name: Jean S Date: October 1, 2000 at 16:37:44 Pacific
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Same for me. K6-2 450, 128 meg, Voodoo Banshee PCI, S7MVP3. Cant get past the hardware detection part of install without a bsd, protection error. I am able to boot into safe mode and yes, the best part of it is uninstal.exe. Dont feel like reformating since I have a perfectly good Win98SE setup.
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Name: james cardy Date: November 21, 2000 at 16:32:21 Pacific
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i get the error after i install as it boots after setting up the hardware. when i load in safe mode i find my hard drive controllers are screwed up. i think the problem is caused by a file called esdi_506.pdr.
Summary: Win me is starting in safe mode .in normal mode it is giving windows protection error .restart your system.system is halted . give me suggestions. ...
Summary: When i try and shut down my pc i get the blue screen of death saying "windows protection error you must restart your computer" nothing else and it happens all the time please help? ...
Summary: I noticed that I got the same sort of thing happening when I first installed Windows ME, although not exactly in the same way. My PC kept getting Windows protection errors just after the part where it...
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DualBoot 98/Me with both ...
