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Re: vmm32.vxd required. Pc don't go Win

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Oct 31st, 2006

well it seems we have a little argument over second hand comps. i will say this you are both right and both wrong. there are alot of dishonest second hand sales men out there. delt with one a few days ago. wanted to sell me an 80 gig ide hd for 100 bucks. went down the road and got a bran new 250 gig sata for 79. BUT alot of new comp places want to sell you super fast high powered comps that are so advanced that the people who buy them dont even use 2% of that power. around here a bran new comp at most all stores are top high power things that cost 1200 or more. go to a used one you might pay 300, if you dont know what your looking for you can easly get screwed eather way, bran new or not. thats why i offer my services local around here to people. if they want to know if they got a deal let me know what and how much and i tell them weather its a good deal or not. i alos offer to build people computers. i find that people are really interested in paying 700-900 for a computer built for them thats the same or better than the ones in stores that cost 2300 or more top of the line. it costs me about 600 to build a bran new computer amd 3200 with gig ram, and 200 gig hd, sound card, video, monitor, and tower. and ppl will pay about 800 for it in a heart beat.

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Re: vmm32.vxd required. Pc don't go Win

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Originally Posted by TrueBlueTheCat

well it seems we have a little argument over second hand comps. i will say this you are both right and both wrong. there are alot of dishonest second hand sales men out there. delt with one a few days ago. wanted to sell me an 80 gig ide hd for 100 bucks. went down the road and got a bran new 250 gig sata for 79. BUT alot of new comp places want to sell you super fast high powered comps that are so advanced that the people who buy them dont even use 2% of that power. around here a bran new comp at most all stores are top high power things that cost 1200 or more. go to a used one you might pay 300, if you dont know what your looking for you can easly get screwed eather way, bran new or not. thats why i offer my services local around here to people. if they want to know if they got a deal let me know what and how much and i tell them weather its a good deal or not. i alos offer to build people computers. i find that people are really interested in paying 700-900 for a computer built for them thats the same or better than the ones in stores that cost 2300 or more top of the line. it costs me about 600 to build a bran new computer amd 3200 with gig ram, and 200 gig hd, sound card, video, monitor, and tower. and ppl will pay about 800 for it in a heart beat.

Hello ,i do agree with most of what in you post ,well maybe all .lol
I don't sell power machines ,i sell intern computer ,just the basics .actually don't sell many any more as the new ones have gotting to cheap .like around here now people are buying Dell's for about 499.00+
Computer shops always wanted to sell you the top speed/best in the shop stuff i know all kinds of people who got ripped when they went out and bought a new p3 233 ,and all the bells and whistles [1997]or even a AMD1000[2001] it doesn't matter they always sell people more that they need and will ever use.Right now im sitting at an AMD 1000,win98 80 gig hdd,375 meg ram ,20x burner,48x cdrom ,printer.and scanner ,17" monitor my brother -inlaw paid $2300.00 in 2001 for it ,he moved to western canada to work last week, and gave i to me .all they ever used it for interne and other pasic stuff .

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Re: vmm32.vxd required. Pc don't go Win

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Nov 2nd, 2006

Holy Hijacking, Batman!!!!

We seem to have deviated from the topic. Let's get back on track. Here's the message from the original post:

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Hello.
My Compac win98 was running Ok. but now when I start it show the window logo, and then then this message came:
' VMM32.VXD is required to run windows. if this file is not in your PATH, you may need to reinstall windows.
I don't have disk for windows, will that be the end of my Pc, and what abouth the files on the Pc.
Thank for any help please.
And sorry if I on a wrong place

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Re: vmm32.vxd required. Pc don't go Win

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Nov 2nd, 2006

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Originally Posted by goldeagle2005

Holy Hijacking, Batman!!!!

We seem to have deviated from the topic. Let's get back on track. Here's the message from the original post:

yes that is true but in post #5 it turned to used computers lol and the orignal post has never posted back!!since 2005

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Nov 3rd, 2006

oooooooooopsssssssssss.....My Bad. I didn't look at the post. Guess I've been working WAY too hard. Damn, I need a vacation.

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Re: vmm32.vxd required. Pc don't go Win

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Originally Posted by Cordillera

Hello.
My Compac win98 was running Ok. but now when I start it show the window logo, and then then this message came:
' VMM32.VXD is required to run windows. if this file is not in your PATH, you may need to reinstall windows.
I don't have disk for windows, will that be the end of my Pc, and what abouth the files on the Pc.
Thank for any help please.
And sorry if I on a wrong place

Cordillera

I THINK I HAVE SOLVED IT!! maybe, it worked for me, i did some resurching and it seems that its the floppy disk drive thats causing it, now, how i got around it was this, i installed windows, and when it reboots to install your drivers and such press f8. go into safe mode, it will tell you your running safe mode and cant install drivers, now disable your floppy drive in the device manager, then reboot, after its done installing all the rest of the hard ware and reboots agin, durring normal windows now remove the disk drive (uninstall) from the list and reboot. now windows will install the drivers for the disk drive and woohoo NO ERROR! yeah!. i dont know if you actually have to remove it, it may work by re-enableing it to. but what i found out was that the order that windows installs its drivers normally confilts with the paths that the hard ware is set up, it seams that the floppy and the cd-rom for some reason use the same IRQ or pathways, ive noticed that when i copy something from a cd to the HD or the Floppy to the HD it works fine, but if i try to copy a file from the CD-rom to the Floppy drive i get errors. well thats what i found out, try it, it may work for you to.