I would appreciate some help with this problem. I have an Acer Travelmate 7130 notebook computer. Although dated, it costed 3500 bucks new in '98 and I'd like to get some extra use out of it.
The unit came with Win 95 B. Although it had the USB supplement, the computer's USB port never worked. Since I now have a need for the USB port to work, I decided to install Win 98 SE.
The install went fine. Everything was working. I even hooked up my USB CD rom and burned a CD. I shut down the machine very happy that I got the USB port to work.
However, next time I started the machine, at the point where it kicks the display into 1024 x 768, it crashed with a IOS (1) error message with a particular address. After pressing a key to continue, I have a totally blank screen with a live cursor. CNT-ALT-DLT brings up the task box which is empty. I can shut the machine down fine and it will boot up like nothing is wrong except every time, there is the IOS (1) vxd error always at the same address.
I thought it might be the video drivers and discovered that Neomagic has fled from the notebook market and doesn't even release generic drivers for the Magicgraph 128XD chipset.
Of course, Acer does not support anything but the outdated Win 95 on this machine which I think is a crock considering how much it cost new.
I tried the standard trouble shooting turning off everything with msconfig but always at the same point, where the display turns to 1024x268, the same stupid error.
Microsoft is useless with this problem. I've tried some updated neomagic drivers and was able to get it to work for a short time. Then, next time up, the problem is back. It never came up properly after this time and I had to put it back to Win 95.
If I uninstall Win 98 and put back Win 95, the unit works fine again. Stable with a useless USB port and of course, the inability to run some of the newer software.
Any help would be appreciated as I would like to use the USB port.
Cwizard