D. Kirkpatrick
2004-06-21 07:16:11 UTC
Greetings -
Well I have Googled all over and cannot find a fix that works. This
appears to have been a well-documented problem early on with Win95.
I was forced to format the drive and reinstall Windows 95, a custom
NEC job with a special system software restoration CD. It all went
well until I was setting up my ethernet card (Belkin).
I accidently selected and "installed" one of the Dec Pathworks
Ethernet options. When I realised that this was not right, I went to
the Network panel and removed it.
However, during the boot I now get an error saying the "decpw.386" is
missing. The boot stalls there waiting for any key to be pressed to
bypass the error. It alkso suggests removing the program (done) or
editing SYSTEM.INI.
Of course, the only problem is that SYSTEM.INI has no refrence to this
missing file.
Dones anyone know of a Windows patch that will fix this that is still
available for download? Or is there something I can add to SYSTEM.INI
to trick it into thinking its there?
Or does anyone have a copy of "decpw.386" they can send me and tell me
where to install it to get this error to go away.
DMK
Well I have Googled all over and cannot find a fix that works. This
appears to have been a well-documented problem early on with Win95.
I was forced to format the drive and reinstall Windows 95, a custom
NEC job with a special system software restoration CD. It all went
well until I was setting up my ethernet card (Belkin).
I accidently selected and "installed" one of the Dec Pathworks
Ethernet options. When I realised that this was not right, I went to
the Network panel and removed it.
However, during the boot I now get an error saying the "decpw.386" is
missing. The boot stalls there waiting for any key to be pressed to
bypass the error. It alkso suggests removing the program (done) or
editing SYSTEM.INI.
Of course, the only problem is that SYSTEM.INI has no refrence to this
missing file.
Dones anyone know of a Windows patch that will fix this that is still
available for download? Or is there something I can add to SYSTEM.INI
to trick it into thinking its there?
Or does anyone have a copy of "decpw.386" they can send me and tell me
where to install it to get this error to go away.
DMK