BRANDON MAILED ME
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I was looking through the virtual dr. message boards and you seemed to be......i tried to post this message on the board put it kept telling me I was unregistered even though i have already done
it....anyway...

I have an AMD Duron 750 running on an MSI Via 133a
Pro2 board. It has been running for about 6 months.
It crashed recently. I was unable to boot it in any
way everytime it gave me a blue screen saying windows
protection fault, restart computer. I bought a brand
new hd thinking the old one had crashed. I have tried
installing the new HD fresh by installing both 98 or
ME, with various bootdisks. Every time the
installation bails out, often before it begins during
scandisk or at the beginning of the install...it has
continued into the install for a few minutes before
crashing a couple of times, but it almost always gives
me a different error. DPMI error 03AF-****, sometimes
it begins trying to install while the scandisk is
still running. Sometimes it gets to the install gui
and the error box display INVALID TRUE TYPE FONT,
other times i get a system user error, other times it
just stops and displays no error message. I wonder if
my mb or cpu is bad. The hard drive is a brand new40
gb WD. I believe that it is a good hd. If you have
any tips or suggestions please let me know. Also do
you know of any cpu/motherboard diagnostics I can run?
Thank you. Any help you can give will be greatly
appreciated.

Brandon

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so, you have the problem.
I need do a few things
Besides, as much as would like to, I cannot handle things like this privately.

other imput welcome.

my first guess is memory...
please help Brandon?
I will mail him the link to this thread

thx, Jaak