I'm having a problem on my laptop. I'm not really sure if this is a windows problem or a hardware problem. The laptop has Windows 98 second edition on it and I use a linksys wireless b notebook adapter to connect to my linksys wireless b router. Recently for some reason I've been getting what I call the bluescreen of death when the computer starts up and gets to the login screen. With some error like, 'An exception OE has occured at 0028:C00051EF in VxD VMM(01) + 000041EF. This was called from 0028:C0015BD5 in VxD VMM(01) + 00014BD5.' or 'A fatal exception OE has occured at 0028:C15D26CD in VxD VSHIELD(01) + 0000BB1D Some reason though if I take the wireless adapter out and then start up in safe mode and do a proper shutdown I can then startup it up regular and login fine with out the wireless adapter. I've tried virus scans and ccleaner and everything seemed fine and tried reinstalling the linksys adapter. Does anyone have any ideas about what might be wrong?? I tempted to just reinstall windows figured I'd ask first though maybe someone might know whats going on. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Not sure, but I am wondering if 98 has the proper support for wireless hardware?? Have you checked the support areas for the adapter?
Well I've been using it for a couple months already and this just happened like 5 days ago but I just checked the support requirements to make sure and I do have the minimum requirements. When I ran ccleaner it came up with quite alot of issues but I didnt fix any cause I didnt know if I should fix only certain ones or all of them. What should I do about that? A couple days before it started doing this my dog chewed on my power cable which I have to always use b/c my batteries dont hold power and I taped it up and it worked fine, but I was wondering maybe that that screwed something up from like low power surges or something.
Anything's possible. You might try starting everything over from scratch. Remove the device, and it's drivers and start it's installation as if it were never there.
yeah or you could try to upgrade to xp and then insatll it and it should work 100% becuase it may not be compatible with 98
I came to the conclusion that the wireless device had nothing to do with the problem so I sought out looking for solutions to vxd vmm errors and found that one thing to try was to copy these files - vcomm.vxd vdmad.vxd confimg.vxd vdd.vxd vmouse.vxd ntkern.vxd vflatd.vxd from the win98 se cd to c:\windows\system and c:\windows\system\vmm32 Which seemed to work at first but after a couple successful startups I started to get a vxd vshield error so I then uninstalled McAffee and everything seems fine now! I'm using the laptop and w/the wireless card now :~) Thanks for the help guys!
