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Started by Ben Partridge
Thu, 06 Aug 1998 00:00
Missing vmm32.vxd !
Author: Ben Partridge
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 00:00
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Almost every time I restart my PC in either Win95 or 98, I get a blank screen with the fatal message... 'vmm32.vxd is missing/damaged' Press any key... at which point my PC is then powered down. Restarting in safe mode or logged mode usually clears this after a couple of more tries. Why is this happening? The MS web page suggested USB problems but I'm not using an USB devices yet and am using Windows 98! Any thoughts mail to Ben.Partridge@chem.ox.ac.uk
Re: Missing vmm32.vxd !
Author: Louis Bybee
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 00:00
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I have a friend that had the same problem. With help from people frequenting this News Group, we narrowed it down to bad hard drive, or bad memory. The problem was very intermittent and almost impossible to pin down. After some time it turned out to be a flaky hard drive, but it was pointed out to me that flaky memory could do the same thing. Louis Ben Partridge wrote: > Almost every time I restart my PC in either Win95 or 98, I get a blank > screen with the fatal message... > > 'vmm32.vxd is missing/damaged' > Press any key... > > at which point my PC is then powered down. Restarting in safe mode or > logged mode usually clears this after a couple of more tries. Why is > this happening? The MS web page suggested USB problems but I'm not > using an USB devices yet and am using Windows 98! > > Any thoughts mail to Ben.Partridge@chem.ox.ac.uk
Re: Missing vmm32.vxd !
Author: Rich
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 00:00
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I used to have the same problem. Do you have a UMAX Scanner? If you do then most likely it is the virtual device driver UMAX.386 that is being loaded through the vmm32.vxd. Go to UMAX's web site and they have the fix for it. I have not had any problems since. Rich On Thu, 06 Aug 1998 15:37:04 -0700, Louis Bybee <louisb@datacomm.com> wrote: >I have a friend that had the same problem. With help from people >frequenting this News Group, we narrowed it down to bad hard drive, or bad >memory. The problem was very intermittent and almost impossible to pin >down. After some time it turned out to be a flaky hard drive, but it was >pointed out to me that flaky memory could do the same thing. > >Louis > >Ben Partridge wrote: > >> Almost every time I restart my PC in either Win95 or 98, I get a blank >> screen with the fatal message... >> >> 'vmm32.vxd is missing/damaged' >> Press any key... >> >> at which point my PC is then powered down. Restarting in safe mode or >> logged mode usually clears this after a couple of more tries. Why is >> this happening? The MS web page suggested USB problems but I'm not >> using an USB devices yet and am using Windows 98! >> >> Any thoughts mail to Ben.Partridge@chem.ox.ac.uk > > > A Snake has no armpits
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