I've recently started getting a "Windows Protection Error" when I shutdown my win98se machine -- and I'm forced to press a key for it to continue to power-down.
A little background: The computer has been running fine for many years. It's a Tekram P5m4-m+ motherboard with an amd K6-2/500mhz and 256mb of ram, with 8mb shared to the onboard video + an additional video in a pci slot (s3 trio 64).
A couple weeks ago, I wanted to burn an ISO using nero 5.5something... so I started a burn... and during that time my machine ran out of disk-space -- so windows gave me a disk-space problem and nero aborted the burn.
So, I needed to clean up some space (the drive was really low on space). I chose several little-used apps, including Quake3, "mplayer" and a couple other "minor" things that I can't remember (
).
I'm fairly certain that was the day my problems began. When the day was over and I shut-down the computer, it hung at "please wait while windows shuts down". I waited 30+ minutes before finally hitting the power switch. For the few times since then that I've used the machine, I've had intermittent problems -- ranging from a "random" reboot in the middle of working to "em_exec aborted" window showing up soon after power-up. I have not been able to cleanly shutdown since that day -- usually just hanging at "please wait while windows shuts down". Over the last 2 days, I now get a "windows protection error" when I would normally expect it to power-down (after the "please wait...").
I've followed MS's troubleshooting in 202633 and 238096 (except for the windows "shutdown supplement") without success.
I've run Memtest-86 v3.2 for about 4 hours with no problems indicated.
I've run System File Checker and found 3 corrupt files "setupx.dll", "s3dtkw.dll" and "s3kernel.vxd" -- which I restored from the win98se install disk.
I've enabled/disabled each of my video display devices, disabled Power Status Polling, disabled the windows exit sound, disabled audio/game/media devices -- set my display to lowest resolution/color depth.
Still the same Windows Protection Error*
I've started in Safe-Mode, and it shuts down fine -- so it only happens in real mode.
I've started with logging turned on, and reviewed the logs -- and things seem in order -- it shows drivers starting Ok... then at the end it shows the terminated stuff ending successfully. (Ending with TerminateSuccess:KERNEL (or whatever the word is)) The log does not indicate a problem.
(When I start-up, it does not indicate that it was shutdown improperly, and does not do the scandisk thing)
I'm getting the error about 90% of the time. The other 10%, it just hangs at "please wait while windows shuts down".
Occasionally (maybe the same times it just hangs on shutdown), I'll get a "EM_EXEC Aborted" windows error message very soon after start-up -- but not always.
Other than the occasional "EM_EXEC Aborted" windows message, I'm not getting any errors on start-up.
(I thought EM_EXEC may be "extended memory" related, which caused me to be suspicious about my memory, but a google search shows it's relative to Logitech mice, which I do have)
Can anyone help?
cliff notes:
1) usually get "windows protection error" during shutdown of win98se
2) sometimes it just hangs at shutdown
3) tried lots of stuff
4) still gives me error
UPDATE: problem definately related to nero's imagedrive when i have adaptecs ez cd creator installed. google search yiellds many many people saying "they don't like each other"
thanks-
ttown
A little background: The computer has been running fine for many years. It's a Tekram P5m4-m+ motherboard with an amd K6-2/500mhz and 256mb of ram, with 8mb shared to the onboard video + an additional video in a pci slot (s3 trio 64).
A couple weeks ago, I wanted to burn an ISO using nero 5.5something... so I started a burn... and during that time my machine ran out of disk-space -- so windows gave me a disk-space problem and nero aborted the burn.
So, I needed to clean up some space (the drive was really low on space). I chose several little-used apps, including Quake3, "mplayer" and a couple other "minor" things that I can't remember (
).I'm fairly certain that was the day my problems began. When the day was over and I shut-down the computer, it hung at "please wait while windows shuts down". I waited 30+ minutes before finally hitting the power switch. For the few times since then that I've used the machine, I've had intermittent problems -- ranging from a "random" reboot in the middle of working to "em_exec aborted" window showing up soon after power-up. I have not been able to cleanly shutdown since that day -- usually just hanging at "please wait while windows shuts down". Over the last 2 days, I now get a "windows protection error" when I would normally expect it to power-down (after the "please wait...").
I've followed MS's troubleshooting in 202633 and 238096 (except for the windows "shutdown supplement") without success.
I've run Memtest-86 v3.2 for about 4 hours with no problems indicated.
I've run System File Checker and found 3 corrupt files "setupx.dll", "s3dtkw.dll" and "s3kernel.vxd" -- which I restored from the win98se install disk.
I've enabled/disabled each of my video display devices, disabled Power Status Polling, disabled the windows exit sound, disabled audio/game/media devices -- set my display to lowest resolution/color depth.
Still the same Windows Protection Error*
I've started in Safe-Mode, and it shuts down fine -- so it only happens in real mode.
I've started with logging turned on, and reviewed the logs -- and things seem in order -- it shows drivers starting Ok... then at the end it shows the terminated stuff ending successfully. (Ending with TerminateSuccess:KERNEL (or whatever the word is)) The log does not indicate a problem.
(When I start-up, it does not indicate that it was shutdown improperly, and does not do the scandisk thing)
I'm getting the error about 90% of the time. The other 10%, it just hangs at "please wait while windows shuts down".
Occasionally (maybe the same times it just hangs on shutdown), I'll get a "EM_EXEC Aborted" windows error message very soon after start-up -- but not always.
Other than the occasional "EM_EXEC Aborted" windows message, I'm not getting any errors on start-up.
(I thought EM_EXEC may be "extended memory" related, which caused me to be suspicious about my memory, but a google search shows it's relative to Logitech mice, which I do have)
Can anyone help?
cliff notes:
1) usually get "windows protection error" during shutdown of win98se
2) sometimes it just hangs at shutdown
3) tried lots of stuff
4) still gives me error
UPDATE: problem definately related to nero's imagedrive when i have adaptecs ez cd creator installed. google search yiellds many many people saying "they don't like each other"
thanks-
ttown
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