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[DANIMAL]

Had a 486 with a quatum Lightning 350 MB HD with Win 95 on it , I purchased a used AMD K6-2 500 with a Soyo MOBO ,64mb ram ati Video card, JVC modem, Yamaha Sound and a 3.1 gig HD running WIN ME.

I tried to put the 486'2 HD into the new system to run Win 95 and format the ME drive but when I hook it up it will only let me have the Win 95 drive in the system on it's own. Not what I wanted but any way when I start up the system I get a windows protection error. I thought it was because of the old drivers on the HD so I booted into safe mode and removed everything but still get the same message .

Is there something I can do besides formating the disk to get it to run.

I want to keep the Win 95 drive with it's contents and format the other drive for extra space.
btw It says missing operating system when I install the drive on the same IDE as the CDROM and the other HD it only works by itself on a single IDE cable.

[emjay]

Danimal,
Probably needs the AMD patch for win95, or try underclocking the cpu.

[DANIMAL]

[quote]Originally posted by emjay:
<strong>Danimal,
Probably needs the AMD patch for win95, or try underclocking the cpu.</strong><hr></blockquote>

where can I find this patch?
And how sure are you that this will work?

[computron99]

[quote]Originally posted by Danimal:
<strong>

where can I find this patch?
And how sure are you that this will work?</strong><hr></blockquote>

<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q192/8/41.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=windows%20protection%20error&rnk =28&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=W95" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q192/8/41.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=windows%20protection%20error&rnk =28&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=W95</a> if the link doesn't work: It's article #Q192841

[emjay]

Sorry Danimal,
The link I've got is:
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUServicePacks/AMDPatch/Default.asp" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUServicePacks/AMDPatch/Default.asp</a>

You can access the drive if you are able to underclock the chip below 350 mhz. Then you can easily apply the patch.

[electronmanipulator]

Here's another direction. You have two separate drives and they both have an active boot partition. There's a conflict! Easy fix, I'll let you figure it out.

[DANIMAL]

[quote]Originally posted by emjay:
<strong>Sorry Danimal,
The link I've got is:
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUServicePacks/AMDPatch/Default.asp" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S _WUServicePacks/AMDPatch/Default.asp</a>

You can access the drive if you are able to underclock the chip below 350 mhz. Then you can easily apply the patch.</strong><hr></blockquote>


Why underclock? it has no mention of this in those two links.

[emjay]

The patch is only needed on systems running w95 and K6 2 chips above 350mhz. If you underclock the chip you can usually access w95 without the patch, perhaps allowing you to d/l the patch, if you have no other way to access the net.

[DANIMAL]

[quote]Originally posted by emjay:
<strong>The patch is only needed on systems running w95 and K6 2 chips above 350mhz. If you underclock the chip you can usually access w95 without the patch, perhaps allowing you to d/l the patch, if you have no other way to access the net.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Ok I get it now thanks but I have my own working system to get downloads thanks for the input.