What's a VCOMM device? My system boots fine in W2k but W98 stalls because of that.

[WoundedWallet]

I imagine it has to do with me moving my cards around. I got waaay too many cards in there. All 5 PCI slots are filled and the ISA too. And the AGP too

Anyway, I thought that VCOMM stands for communication device, like my NIC, or maybe modem.

I took my NIC out and still got the error. And my modem is on the same ISA slot as before. Supposedly it is not sharing any IRQs. But at this point I don't know no more.

I'm able to boot on safe mode, so that points to some device driver problem.

Anybody remember what VCOMM stands for? Actually it says Virtual Device.

 

[AndyHui]

Should be virtual communications device. Either replace vcomm.vxd as it may be corrupted, or you could try removing all of your networking protocols and then putting them back....that also replaces all the related files.

 

[WoundedWallet]

Thanks Andy I'll try tonight.

 

[WoundedWallet]

Well, first I got another copy of vcomm.vxd. Nothing changed.

Then I physically removed both my NIC and modem. Same results.

Then I replaced them physically and removed both from the device manager. Same results.

A search for files with text 'vcomm.vxd' brings some weird connections.

- Inside file SUBASE.INF(all subase are... )
--- vcomm is mentioned in the area about mouse drivers. Something about combining vcomm and vmm32.vxd
--- vcomm is also mentioned in the area of Power Management.

vcomm.vxd is mentioned in other files as well but nothing that seems to shed some clue on the problem.

I have some old backups that I can use, so I'm not in deepsh!t space, but if anybody else has any ideas before I go 'back to the future', please let me know.

Thanks,
WW

 

[AndyHui]

Remove the protocols under Network in Control Panel....I didn't say remove the devices from the device manager.

VCOMM.VXD is actually kept inside VMM.VXD....Window's monolithic unified driver. If you want to replace it, you need to place a copy of VCOMM.VXD in the Windows\System\Vmm32 directory.

 

[WoundedWallet]

Andy, thanks for your help. This is just an update, no real progress.

I went to the 'Network' and reinstalled dial-up. Rebooted and the OS came on. I smiled liked a baby.

But then it found the nic and I decided to reinstall it. Rebooted and got the vcomm message again.

Well I thought I had figured out the problem, until I unistalled all the network and reinstalled the dialup again and realized that the problem was still there.

Now I'm waiting for some free time to go back at it. Working in the middle of the night puts me to sleep while I wait for the reboot.

Whenever I get it going I'll post it.
Thanks,
WW