🚀 go-pugleaf

Gerhard Landauf,

  When you run Win95's setup have your system set to VGA resolution,
640x480, and use the standard Win3.x drivers. Then when Win95's setup
displays the hardware list set it to a VGA video card and monitor. The
setup should go in then and you can change these after Win95 is up and
running. Also if you can it would be best to just do a clean install of
Win95 with an empty formatted HDD.

  Later.

Gerhard Landauf wrote:

> Hi there !
>
> Due to an overwritten file I decided to re-install Windows 95
> completely (beginning with DOS and Windows 3.1 after formatting the
> HDD with DOS 6.2).
>
> I work with the GERMAN version of Windows 95, which - however - should
>
> not matter here.
>
> Upon installing Windows 95 from the original setup CD (after
> successfully having installed DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1) I got the
> following error message from Windows 95 after the initial brief
> hardware check:
>
> "SUWIN caused Segment Load Failure in Module suwin.exe at 0002:5E0F"
>
> This message is desplayed in a 'generic' Windows 3.1 message box.
> Every time I try to re-install Win95 I get the same error msg
> including the same segment address !
>
> (In the original German version the message reads: "SUWIN verursachte
> einen Segment-Lade-Fehler in Modul SUWIN.EXE an Adresse 0002:5E0F"
> As I saw the same error message from a desperate user, who posted into
>
> the newsgroups - without having his mail answered so far - I was able
> to give the CORRECT English translation of that message above.)
>
> Note:
> The system I installed Win95 SUCCESSFULLY before is an old 386/40
> machine with a Quantum 253 MB HDD, 8 MB RAM, a Tseng ET4000 card and a
>
> Sony CDU76E CDROM drive.
> Don't say, 'Buy yourself a new machine.'. I have a brand new Pentium
> PC myself. The PC I am getting mad with is a machine for a school
> class. Unfortunately they cannot afford a better one at the moment.
>
> Questions:
>
> (1)
> What is the function of SUWIN ?
>
> (2)
> By what is a 'Segment Load Error' caused and what else can be at
> address 0002:5E0F ?
>
> (3)
> Obviously at least one other desperate guy got this error at exactly
> the same segment address (0002:5E0F); as his e-mail address is
> obviously not correct, I couldn't ask him if he already found a
> solution.
>
> (4)
> When I first (and successfully) installed Win95 on that machine I used
>
> an external CDROM drive connected to the parallel port.
> When I had to re-install Windows95 I had inserted an internal drive
> meanwhile.
> Do you think the drive (connected to the same cable as the HDD) or the
>
> driver (V 2.73 from Sony) might have caused all the trouble ?
>
> (5)
> What can I do to install Windows95 properly ?
> 20 school-children are waiting and my nerves are almost gone !
> Please HELP !
>
> P.S. The MS Knowledge Base is of no help.
>
> Please send me your replies by e-mail !
>
> Sincerely
> Gerhard Landauf (AUSTRIA)

--
  Good Luck.

Joseph M. Spreng
jmspreng@ct1.nai.netNS

  Just remove the NS at the end of my E-mail address
to reply via E-mail. ns after the @ = No Spam :-}

"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks
like a duck you've got a duck." -- Dan Rather