re: Second one of the two curious errors I hadn't seen before in this OS
Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2208 messages posted)
It's about to become academic. Of the several candidate systems for running Freespace
I in a semblance of the hardware matching its release, the one using a Micronics
i430TX mainboard is just abominably slow, maybe 10% of the potential performance
of the processor. I sent that pile of junk to the recycling bin.
Not quite as bad, but still "Annoying", was the Abit BX-6 board with the i440BX chipset,
which ran Win98se slower than it did Win2000, plus, wouldn't run Windows Explorer
as per the second odd error here. I'm reformatting and repartitioning its jumpered
40 GB Hdd (max it can use is 32 GBs) to give the first of Gewg's pets a shot.
Right now, an Asus P2L97 board with an i440LX chipset seems to be the winning setup
for the low end, 233 MHz Retro game system (not the one for Freespace any more; I
think it's a shade "too" retro for that), and perhaps a Via MVP4 system for the 450
MHz Medium-old platform (but I wish I could figure out what makes that one take so
long loading Win98se before it's ready to go to work).
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Kiwi
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On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 9:18 am, Kiwi wrote:
>The last time that I had the Slot-1 PC running was the day before I posted the opening
>query in this thread, & that day I couldn't recall what Windows kept saying when
>it wouldn't /couldn't start Windows Explorer:
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>> Something it finds in or with USER32.DLL. I'll let that one go for now, I guess.
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>There are two dialog boxes. The first one has this message: "The Explorer.Exe file
>is linked to missing export USER32.DLL:IsHungAppWindow."
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>The second dialog box comes up and says "A device attached to the system is not
functioning."
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>Windows Explorer doesn't start. Google was no help on this one (lots of hits, no
>specifics, though). Any ideas?
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>Kiwi
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