Lost my media players

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All started on a cobbled machine/drivers, apparently some script kiddie while just
surfing google, co-opted that system, chugging and chugging but not going
anywhere; so a friend helped me migrate my HD with Windows98SE to an HP7920.
Since the hardware is meant for WinME, I suppose I'm just asking for trouble.

So this newer system at least runs, but the media players freeze up, need to
reboot. (Also the movies won't play.) I've removed all audio & graphics drivers in
safe-mode, run CCleaner and let Windows CD reinstall the drivers it wants. I've
upgraded the monitor and MoBo drivers (intel 810 chipset). These fixes worked
twice, but same ol'-same-ol', again. .Vxd prompts are what I get, msngr32, has
lapses, forgets what it should do. I don't see any conflicts in device manager,
everything looks to be working properly. Attempts to fix were done without any
firewall or AV protection. Registry was cleaned as best i know how.

(Saw in another post, could this be a dead or dying battery?)
 
Im sorry i could not understand any of what you wrote, could you rephrase it.

Also please include indepth system specifications, OS, Hardware, etc etc
 
thrival said:
so a friend helped me migrate my HD with Windows98SE to an HP7920.
Since the hardware is meant for WinME, I suppose I'm just asking for trouble.
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You must re-install Windows 98SE if putting the drive into another computer
It will then load all the correct drivers without conflict
 
Well i didnt quite understand what you were saying but if that is the case and you have simply swapped the HDD into a new system without formatting then yes, kimsland is 100% correct. you MUST fully format & reinstall if you change the hardware to that extent otherwise you really are asking for trouble,
 
Thanks for replying.

It's an HP 7920 with Cognac 20010412 Mobo running Win98SE. I think this
hardware originally came with ME but its HD was toast so we just swapped mine
in. Yes we (my tech friend & I) reinstalled Win98SE to hopefully fetch the needed
drivers but a graphics driver and intel 810 chipset drivers were missing so we
searched the web, found and installed them. I've got noscript, free zonealarm
and Avast! antivirus installed now.

If I try to run a media player it just freezes everything and I need to reboot or
nothing works.

(I was interrupted while typing this message when my browser froze up. My system
could be compromised by a script-kiddie exploit, or some other, although the
above programs have not detected, system seems too fragile sometimes to even
run diagnostics.)
 
Hmmm is right. I will try the HP keyboard & mouse drivers updates and see if that
helps.

Well I installed the HP keyboard/mouse fix/driver and it eliminated
the annoying relay/click that kept occurring as was being "pinged."
I didn't think I needed it because I'm not using an HP mouse/keyboard
but it helped a little.

Spoke too soon, relay click is still there...

but anyway, media-player doesn't work, freezes up, ctrl/alt/del shows
program not responding, just hangs; need to shutdown at the switch.

Running other programs (document converter) causes blue-screen. Still
able to surf, firefox still works.
 
Downloaded memtest, now 7-zip; (not familiar with ISO ext./format.)
Maybe I wasn't 100% clear, I didn't reformat the disk before migrating to the
HP 7920, just re-ran Win98SE setup; too many critical data files to reformat,
waiting for flash-drive in the mail, to move stuff to another computer. Then
maybe a complete reformat is possible, but probably to Ubuntu.

Sometimes there's no blue-screen, just lock-up; (depends upon the program.)
 
thrival said:
Then maybe a complete reformat is possible
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Actually don't format. Instead remove the Partition.
Any Windows Setup CD can do that for you (from booting from it)

A clean install is done when the Harddrive starts without any Partition created
Then just let Windows create the Partition either automatically (as in above XP) or manually (only) for the older Windows 98 Setup CD (and by using that CD)
 
er, well if I did that (removed the partition), wouldn't that merge my C & D drives?
Lose data?

...in the mean time I don't know how to run the memtest .iso extension. Turns out
that 7-zip was just a bunch of crapware.

I've got a bunch of old registry files but because the reference to the original
programs are missing, I don't know if I can safely remove them or not without
affecting existing programs.
 
Well you said 3 things

1. Yes it would merge the partitions, but you can just remove the single partition you are working off. And obviously this is done after backing up (actually this was a two part answer :) )

2. I wrote that Memtest guide, please follow what I said: https://www.techspot.com/vb/post653029-21.html

3. Registry files? Just back these up, as I don't want to go through them individually
 
There's a huge knowledge gap between you and me. I've never done
any of those things you suggest, and i think I better copy/transfer my drives
before I even try.

My windows version doesn't support jzip so I can't run memtest yet.
 
Good point, you must create the Memtest boot CD on a newer than Windows ME system. I forgot to say that ;) :D
 
There's a university computer lab close by, with fast computers. I can download and burn there, but not run those applications. I've got the memtest app on my HD now, are you saying that if
I burn it to CD that it will run stand-alone, without j-zip?
 
I'm not sure why you are bringing up this Zip program
But yes just burn (meaning mount) the ISO to a CD
As in the guide (again with the guide :rolleyes: ) you may need a free ISO burning program. But most computers have Nero or some burning software installed already

Then boot off it (start your computer from CD)
This is all assuming that your old computer has the option for CD as first boot device.
If it doesn't then that's just getting too old
 
I brought up the zip program because assumed from your page it was needed to
open the .iso extension, as 7-zip claims to do.

I unzipped and copied the memtest app files to disk but they do NOT boot my
computer from start-up or run when i click them. I mentioned my ignorance of
these matters, now you can see how deep.
 
I have nero burner.

Your file is named: memtest86+-2.11.iso.zip

If I burn that to a CD it will still have the .zip extension.

Are you saying that if I then open the .zip file from the
CD, it will behave differently?
 
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