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Romulus   12-24-2001 at 10:19:47 AM

Dear expert,

First of all allow me please to introduce myself: I am a Romanian manufacturing product engineer and I work with Solectron corporation.

My question is related to a startup failure for a WIN98SE O.S. I have more details: recently I have bought a 40 GB MAXTOR HDD and because my motherboard (RED FOX AGP ALI having AMD K6-2 300 MHz CPU) does not recognize more than 33 GB, I formatted it at 33 GB (4 partitions). On the main partition (3 GB) I have installed WIN98SE and few other software applications (such as MS Office 2000 professional, Norton system works, Partition Magic 6.0, MKafee virus shield, etc. etc.). Everything was looking O.K., when an error message appeared (something with EXPLORER and PDM.dll). I restarted my P.C. and "surprise": OS was not able to complete its startup anymore (windows 98 screen remained frozen). What should I do ? Should I install new version of pdm.dll (version 6.0.0.8424) ? Should I rename it into pdm.old (I do not have any Development tools) ? Maybe the root cause of my problem is not really PDM.dll. I would also mention here that I have only 64 MB of RAM memory and I have succeeded to start my computer in SAFE mode.

Please help me !!! I look forward to obtaining an urgent answer from your side. Thank you.

My best regards,
Romulus.

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girish   12-24-2001 at 06:34:21 PM
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The Redfox ALi AGP board is pretty good in terms of compatibility and performance. you probably have rev A, B or C, later revs E and F support ATA/66 and larger disks.

First check what that PDM.dll is, rigt click on the file and see the Properties->Details, check the manufacturer. It is probably the culprit. Uninstall that app and try again.

If it doesnt help or the dll is from microsoft or a part of windows itself try doing clean format/reinstall and dont install any utilities that tamper with the system, especially those labelled Norton. Work with the system for a while before installing anything new.

A pretty lengthy process, but have to do it!

BTW the Redfox ALiAGP is my favorite board, I have worked with over 25 of those and none posed any serious problems. Too bad I dont get them anymore!

girish

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girish   12-24-2001 at 06:37:03 PM
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Romulus, one important side-note - the ALi Aladdin chipset on the board has some incompatibility with nVidia RivaTNT2 chipset, so if you have that one installed it might be the reason.

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