what the....

[Yoshie]

Hey what's the deal with Winme's blue screen of death message, "Windows Protection Error", you must restart your computer.
No error codes, no options, no nothing.....what gives?

[This message has been edited by yoshie (edited January 26, 2001).]

[Sparky625]

More of MS's plot to remove control and serviceability from the user, which just helps us techs out by letting us do nothing!
Heh. I miss my DOS prompts.

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Thank you for calling the support desk! How may I disconnect you today?

[Yoshie]

Agreed Sparky625, but still don't help me get the damn thing working
MS, why do you make things so hard.

[weazel]

more then likely its a driver issue...not knowing your system specs...if you have an nvidia card upgrade to the det 3 drivers.

[ikarus1]

Could be RAM, bios settings, driver issues, overclocking w/o enough voltage, anything really........

Have you changed anything recently? Try to go into your bios and reset the ESCD/NVRAM updates, or loading default values. Is Plug and Play OS enabled in the bios?

You need to list completed system specs as well to rule out any incompatibilities. Sometime I have had this error, only to reboot and never see it again...

Good luck!

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If all you see is a beige metal box with wires and such, look again. Now turn it on....

[Yoshie]

well, the clients system is brand new duron 700, 256Mb sdram, Samsung 10G HDD, onboard sound, tnt32Mb video, swan 56K internal modem, running WinME with IE5.5 + patch. Computer works fine off the net, no blue screen at all. Connect to the local ISP no worries and load the home page. Try to surf and the dreaded blue screen error comes up. Have reinstalled WinME over itself, with no change. the ISP is tried and tested with no issues and all tcp/ip settings are correct.
So what next?. With out the error messages im stuck.

[CyberTech]

Sounds like a problem with the modem to me.

Try a different one (preferably external). If that's not an option, at least try updating the modem drivers.

[evilcabbage]

Ive seen this before with ME. the PC was under warranty, so I didnt touch it, the guy that fixed it, re-partitioned the drive, and re-installed ME, no hardware changes. It isnt the deepest answer, but its all I got.

I hate windows ME. It really gives me the ****s.

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Its like shooting fish in a barrel, in the head, at point blank range, with an elephant gun.

[thirdfey]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">I hate windows ME. It really gives me the @#$%&.
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One way to improve the quality of the board is to improve the quality of the language we use. If you really feel the need to use that language than do it the way cartoons do and put special characters in instead of the word, yes, full word please. Little things make the difference....

Thank you,
Tony


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we are number one, all others are number two......or lower

[Ruslan]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by thirdfey:
One way to improve the quality of the board is to improve the quality of the language we use. If you really feel the need to use that language than do it the way cartoons do and put special characters in instead of the word, yes, full word please. Little things make the difference....

Thank you,
Tony

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By the way, I do not understand, what @#$%& means? Could You explain?

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Ruslan Khyzha

[x_789]

Well I tend to think its a crapy load of 5.5 + patch did no one else notice it was while he was on the net? X

[Yoshie]

So x_789 should I go back to IE5.01
and give that a try? Will WinME work under IE5.01? seems it comes with 5.5 already.

Im taking out another modem, external to see if it is a conflict with the modem somehow. Im also taking out Win98se if all else fails.

I will keep you all posted

[pm4345]

I agree too! replace the modem and see!

I just installed win-me on a fresh computer. Within one day it crashed on me....

Win98SE ran for 5 days on that same computer without crashing! Infact I used it as my wingate server during those 5 days

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Say what?

[Yoshie]

The resolution…….
Well guess what, it wasn’t Win ME, it wasn’t the modem, it wasn’t bad ram but it was the IE 5.5 service pack. Had to reformat the HDD, reinstall Win ME and Drivers, and no problems, the only thing changed was the service pack for IE wasn’t installed.
Is this an issue? Will the service pack cause similar faults in the future? I don’t know myself but it has caused issues and it was the problem……be warned.