What is NDIS.vxd?

[jim2112]

ME does not shut down properly and i think it might be a network card problem but not sure. What is an OE fault called from NDIS.vxd?

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[tutman]

NDIS or Network Driver Interface Specifications. It provides a common open interface to allow multiple protocols from different manufactures to communicate to a variety of hardware adapters. The NDIS driver is standard with Microsoft's Windows95 and WindowsNT. Have you tried using the Windows 'Find' command to find out where the file 'NDIS.VXD' was stored last? Mine is located in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM and I have received that error message too as a consequence of re-installations.
I could try to find a CAB file that contains it, or I could send my NDIS.VXD file, but I don't know if that is an optimum solution (my current system is Win98 SE). NDIS.vxd can be found in NET6 or NET9.CAB on a win98 CD, but I am not sure about Win ME. Assuming your computer starts..? give system file checker a try in Accessories > system tools > sysinfo > tools have your Win disk ready, and you can extract the needed file!

[Pakrat]

With WinME it comes with 'winzip' type features in explorer. So you find the net??.cab on the CD and double click it and just scroll through to ndis.vxd.

I've done this because I messed up my install, needed to extract it.

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[rlitt]

Another way to do this is by using the "extract" command in dos prompt

e.g. extract /a d:\win98se\base4.cab ndis.vxd /L c:\windows\system

d:\is just the path to my cab files. You can substitute your own default location. Also, if you don't where source file resides within a cab, use the first instance or alphabetical order of your cab file and it will search through them all. In my example, I used base4.cab