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To: Spots who wrote (9445)	11/27/1999 9:55:00 PM
From: Richard Goodman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

(Help from all welcome) Just put a new motherboard/CPU in my kids machine, running Win95 OSR2. Hardware appears good, but Win gives following message on boot: While initializing Device IOS: Window protection error. Can boot in safe mode. How can I get windows running short of a reformat and reload of C: ? Previous attempts to reload windows seem to indicate it looks at existing config I had a similar problem a couple months ago after borrowing a motherboard to put in a critical machine whose MB died. When I returned the MB to its original machine, Win (Win98 in this case) got similarly confused. Got it running but not fixed. Will provide any additional info needed.

To: Spots who wrote (9445)	11/27/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: d. alexander	Respond to of 14778

>>>You can use an analog LCD anywhere you can use an ordinary CRT didn't know there were digital digitals & analog digitals, let alone digital digitals with no set standards. Am after more surface area for charts. It took 2-15" monitors before I caught on to getting something bigger, a 21". Adding the 3rd monitor entailed the slots problem, the motherboard fiasco, 2 returned computers. Plus weight. Now, if I need more surface, it seemed perhaps better to avoid another space-guzzling behemoth. The 19" compact CRTs weigh 45-49 lbs vs 68 lbs for the 21" CRT & 20 lbs for the 18" LCD. They cost $450 to $ 550 vs approx $3,000 for an LCD of unknown analog/digital provenance <g> However, it sounds like it may be unwise to temporize with a hybrid LCD for a lot of money. Just get a compact 19". The Viewsonic is the PS790. It won't be going on the AGP card. Does anyone have one of these, any problems? The other choice is the IBM G96 FST. So far, all my monitors are IBM. Sorry to be so wordy! Thank you for the help. I ended with a Gigabyte motherboard, 5 PCI, 2 ISA. No problems. d.alexander