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 --
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.)
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. -- AIM: FrznFoodClerk (actually me) email: [email protected]_cast.net (_ = m) website: under construction Need a technician in the south Jersey area? email/IM for rates/services
