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We have had a computer donated by a company who cleared all their data off
intending to leave us with Windows 98 and Words and Excel to use. However,
when I turn the computer on it gets to the stage where the windows logo
comes up and then the problems start. We get the following message:
NIOS-202-105: An attempt to load NBIC32.NLM faikled because the specifed
file could not be found. MODULE C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\NBIC32.NLM did not remain
resident. Press any key to continue.
this is repeated for the following files:
WM95ENDS.NLM
LCLC32.NILM
TRANNTA.NLM
IPHLPR.NLM
SRVLOC.NLM
IPX.NLM
SPX_SKTS.NLM
VMLID.NLM
CLIENT32.NLM
The company kindly gave us the Windows 98 CD and I have reloaded it but
still I get the above. The system seems to be very unstable and shows a
number of exception errors.
I am not a computer expert by any means but I have looked at the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file but can see no mention of NOVELL.
Is there anything I can do to get the PC to run Windows etc?

Would appreciate any assistance

Thanks

Tony Milner
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reformat & reinstall Win98 is probably easiest. You can try removing the
Netware Client which is causing the problems, but if the files are not
actually present, which is what the error message indicates, then the
attempt will probably fail.

My guess is that the problem is that the company 'cleared' the Netware
client by deleting the files, not via an uninstall. This removed the
files but left present the registry keys that reference those files. You
could run regedit & remove those registry keys, but you're unlikely to
get them all & I'd attempt this only if there was an overriding reason
why you couldn't reformat.

Reinstall without reformat refreshes the Windows files, but doesn't
restore any 'external' files such as the Netware Client files. Nor does
it usually change the registry settings. (The usual purpose of
reinstalling Windows over itself is so you don't lose your existing
setup. When it's the existing setup itself that's the problem though,
this approach is doomed to failure.)

Tony Milner wrote:
> We have had a computer donated by a company who cleared all their data off
> intending to leave us with Windows 98 and Words and Excel to use. However,
> when I turn the computer on it gets to the stage where the windows logo
> comes up and then the problems start. We get the following message:
> NIOS-202-105: An attempt to load NBIC32.NLM faikled because the specifed
> file could not be found. MODULE C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\NBIC32.NLM did not remain
> resident. Press any key to continue.
> this is repeated for the following files:
> WM95ENDS.NLM
> LCLC32.NILM
> TRANNTA.NLM
> IPHLPR.NLM
> SRVLOC.NLM
> IPX.NLM
> SPX_SKTS.NLM
> VMLID.NLM
> CLIENT32.NLM
> The company kindly gave us the Windows 98 CD and I have reloaded it but
> still I get the above. The system seems to be very unstable and shows a
> number of exception errors.
> I am not a computer expert by any means but I have looked at the
> AUTOEXEC.BAT file but can see no mention of NOVELL.
> Is there anything I can do to get the PC to run Windows etc?
>
> Would appreciate any assistance
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony Milner
> --
>
>
>
>

"Tony Milner" <> wrote in news:bmhi7s$gbg$1
@news6.svr.pol.co.uk:

> The company kindly gave us the Windows 98 CD and I have reloaded it but
> still I get the above. The system seems to be very unstable and shows a
> number of exception errors.
> I am not a computer expert by any means but I have looked at the
> AUTOEXEC.BAT file but can see no mention of NOVELL.
> Is there anything I can do to get the PC to run Windows etc?

You can either manually edit system.ini (in the windows folder) and the
registry to remove all traces of Novell, or you can simply remove the
entire Windows folder (from a Win 9x boot disk) and reload the OS from
scratch. It's leftovers from the company that apparently has a Novell
server and had the client installed on their 98 machines.

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