At first I had problems with installing Windows 95. I got the 'standard mode: fault outside of ms-dos extender.' Error all the time at random while trying to install it. Setting the RAM to 12MB fixed that problem. Now I've got another error when trying to boot Win95. It says 'while initializing device ios: windows protection error.
May 15, 2014 (huge pain) but I actually just got it to load the drivers off the win95 cd by just trying it over and over again until it worked. It might have been because I either did or didn't restart after putting in the windows 95 cd can't remember, but I'd try both if you're having trouble all in all windows 95 is incredible wonky to install in a virtual machine. After I installed Windows 95 on my computer. I get a message at startup that saids 'Windows Protection Error. Please restart your computer.' I only start it.
You need to restart your computer' I googled it and people have said it's possible to fix this by underclocking the CPU. Now, how do I do that in VB? I can't seem to find any settings for CPU speed at all. All help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Posts: 2 Joined: 1. Nov 2009, 14:12 Primary OS: MS Windows 7 VBox Version: OSE Debian Guest OSses: XP, Ubuntu, FreeDOS. They're stored in the root directory of your computer (c: ) and are the pre-windows boot sequence Edit: If you don't know where the files are, you probably don't have a terribly easy way of accessing the hard drive of a dead system.
Try pushing F8 as early on the boot sequence as possible (if the windows logo appears, it's too late). Then choose 'command line boot' once you get to a c: prompt, try 'type config.sys' and/or 'type autoexec.bat'. You won't be able to use the clipboard to copy the contents, but there shouldn't be more than a few lines in each one.
Posts: 11 Joined: 29. Oct 2009, 06:36 Primary OS: MS Windows 7 VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: Win95/OSR2, Win98.
'while initializing device ios: windows protection error. You need to restart your computer' That sounds like the old Windows 95 AMD problem (Microsoft never used the word 'bug', although it undoubtedly is), full details of which can be found here. Bascially, the problem centred around the AMD K6/2 and Athlon processors and how certain Windows 95 drivers behaved.
Although the problem was 'fixed' for Windows 98, I do not know if AMD ever did anything their end. It was certainly still present with the Athlon XP series of processors and could well still be in the current AMd product range. On the above link you will find the download that updates the affected files to fix the problem and instructions on how to install them. I have an AMD PhenomII processor and a Windows 95 VM. Before installing the update, If I ran the VM with hardware virtualisation disabled the machine booted and ran happily. If I tried with virtualisation enabled I got the IOS error.
I have now installed the fix and it boots fine with virtualisation disabled or enabled. Installing the update was not straight forward on my machine.
I do not know if its a general problem or specific to my setup, but Windows 95 refused to read the floppy or floppy image I created with the fix. To get around this I simply restarted in DOS mode and copied the disk by hand to the Win95 virtual hard drive, then started Win95 in safe mode and installed the fix from the hard drive without a hitch.
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