Hi,

I have today installed an ASRock K7S8X mothberboard, seemed to go fine
until I installed the drivers from the CD. Now it will not boot up in
normal mode - but will in safe mode.
The error message is

"While initialising device IOS
an I/O subsystem driver failed to load
either a file in the .\iosubsys subdirectory is corrupt or the system
is low on memory"

It then halts.

System is Win 98SE, (New) Athlon 2600 Burton.

I have reinstalled win98 (3 times)
I have tried renaming all the files in the iosubsys directory to
*.old"
I have moved two vxd files which were loaded by the motherboard cd

I am now clean out of ideas and getting very frustrated.

Has anyone got an idea of what I am doing wrong??!

Thanks in advance

Paul

graham@preeve.plus.com Ran in the back door and shouted
news:s179uvo3t03td8qvcdq0304jt5hvqvm3qu@4ax.com:

Have tried booting into the step-by-step option that asks you (Y) or (N)
to load each of the system drivers? [press shift+F8 instead of just F8]
It will pin-point which driver/file that is causing the problem.

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Go to the link below and download the drivers and try them the ones on your
CDROM may be damaged.

http://www.asrock.com/support/Downlo...x_download.htm

Bruce
<graham@preeve.plus.com> wrote in message
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ok, I had sort of tried that. Did it again and it goes through
vnetsup/ndis/ndis2sup/javasup/vrtwd.386/vfixd/vnetbios/viagart/vredir/
dfs/vserver/symtdi (all vxd's except the 386) till it gets to NAV when
it loads
symevnt.386; savrtpel.vxd; savrt.vxd
then ontracks.386 and msmouse.vxd when it stops.
I tried moving msmouse away, but it made no difference.

Any more help?

Paul

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:18:37 -0000, MrToad <oldgt@nospam.hotmail.com>
wrote:

graham@preeve.plus.com wrote:

got it for you... I hope:
http://www.mcdermottroe.com/kb/Win9x/ie/iosubsys.php

I/O Subsystem Driver failed to load. Either a file in the .\IOSYS
subdirectory is corrupt or your system is low on memory

Sometimes after loading MSIE4/5 onto Win 95/98 (depending on what
version of IE you have on Win98), you can get a problem with the PC
rebooting after the restart, where you are presented with an IOSUBSYS
failure message, where you CANNOT load Windows except for safe mode.
Here is how you solve it IF YOU GET THE IOSUBSYS failure message,

1. Start the PC in Safe Mode.
2. Click on Start and choose Run. Type in Sysedit and click on Ok.
3. Open c:\windows\system.ini window.
4. Click on Search, choose Find, type in VCACHE and click on Next.
5. Add the following line to the [VCACHE] section : MAXFILECACHE=6144.
6. Save the file and Restart the pc.

Ian Bergin

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Regrettably, that didnt work.

Unless anyone has any other ideas I suppose its a case of reformatting
the hard disk?

Paul

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:05:15 -0500, BuffNET Tech Support - MichaelJ
<michaelj@buffnet.net> wrote:

graham@preeve.plus.com Ran in the back door and shouted
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Try the MaxFileCache suggestion from BuffNET's post, certianly sounds
like this could be the problem...


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MrToad

graham@preeve.plus.com wrote:

Grrr! Sorry, man... Best of luck, and Hapy hollidaze.

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