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Hi.

It's me again. Cuple of days before I had to format my hard drive. Today I,ve installed HoI and... blue screen with something like this:

start here------------

There has been a critical error 00 in 0028:C023DB7F in VXD VDD (09) + 00001803

*to restart .....

end here-------------

I've downloaded 1.06 patch and... the same
 
Don't know what actually causes this, but the VDD VxD driver is responsible for the data transfers from and to your hard drive on your Windows 9.x installation.

Either the hard drive is physically damaged, or something in your current Windows installation is corrupt.

Try booting to MS-DOS command prompt (via F8 and the boot menu), and run a full scan disk (thus including the surface scan), and see if that turns up any errors.

Jan Peter
 
Not that

Well it's nothing with the hard drive. I've checked it with scandisk and everything is OK. Before formating my HD I've played HoI and everything was warking very good. I suppose I'm lack of something that I had before formating and I don't have it. :confused:
 
Help

Could someone help me??
 
What is your hardware (esp. motherboard chipset) and what have you installed since you reformatted (esp. drivers)?
 
Well.

I think there is nothing wrong with the hardwere, because as I wrote before I played on the same computer, on the same hardwere cuple of days before HoI. I also have same problem with some other games. Well I installed :

*latest direct x
*latest video card drivers
*motherboard drivers

and I think that's all with the drivers. I run Windows 98 SE if you would want to know.
 
Well There is something in Device Menager. There are three unknown devices:

PCI Communication Device
PCI Multimedia Device
PCI Multimedia Video Device

:confused:
 
You say you updated your "motherboard drivers"
Do you mean the CMOS (BIOS) ?
 
No I've installed drivers from the original CD that was attached with the motherboard., I did not update anything from the internet.
 
So it is just HOI that give syou this error message?

If so wipe it from your system and try a reinstall.
 
Not only HoI gives me such error cuple of other games also. I've reinstalled HoI 3 times and nothing :(
 
I think that I'm lack of something, but I don't know what. :confused:
 
The hunch I get from looking at similar errors from other forums is that it either
a) A virus
b) Graphic Driver Problem or
c) a problem with the Hardrive

I would say that jan peter (jpd) probably is correct in saying its the harddrive or something associated with it.

Try
1. Checking the ide cables are connected correctly to the motherboard and harddrives.
2. Scanning a complete virus check of the harddrives on your system.
3. Upgrade the device drivers for your graphics card.
4. Replace the harddrive with another (if you have one spare) just to see if the problem is localised with the current hard drive.
 
cyberman5000 said:
Well There is something in Device Menager. There are three unknown devices:

PCI Communication Device
PCI Multimedia Device
PCI Multimedia Video Device

:confused:
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There should be some s.w that came with the motherboard that will assign the correct drivers to these devices.

Are you using an athlon type motherboard with VIA 4in1 drivers?
 
You should never have an unknown device in your system, unless you know what it is and did it on purpose.
 
cyberman5000 said:
Well.

I think there is nothing wrong with the hardwere, because as I wrote before I played on the same computer, on the same hardwere cuple of days before HoI. I also have same problem with some other games. Well I installed :

*latest direct x
*latest video card drivers
*motherboard drivers

and I think that's all with the drivers. I run Windows 98 SE if you would want to know.
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2Coats said:
There should be some s.w that came with the motherboard that will assign the correct drivers to these devices.

Are you using an athlon type motherboard with VIA 4in1 drivers?
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Putting these two together:

Wipe your Win98SE from the system, and reinstall it from scratch. You don't need to reformat, a DELTREE c:\windows will do the trick. If you know what you are doing, an even less rigid method could be used, to preserve start menu, desktop and IE settings. The point is, you want to get rid of the actual drivers, the driver database and the registry.

Now, after the setup of Win98SE, DO NOT install the motherboard drivers. For anything but the most recent chipsets, it's not necessary to install those drivers anyway. Win98 contains default IDE and other hardware drivers out of the box that will function adequately. Just install the video drivers, and possibly the sound drivers.

Now, install HoI (if it's been wiped during the above process) and start it. If the error no longer happens, the trouble is inside the IDE driver that was supplied on the CD that came with your mobo, something that is quite common, unfortunately. I have stopped using mobo drivers all the way back to the mid 1990's, when I discovered that the IDE busmaster drivers for my i440BX chipset were buggy as hell, and would cause BSOD's for no appearant reason.

And even on my current (VIA / Athlon) system, I don't use any mobo drivers.

As for the question mark devices. Those will not cause problems. They won't work either, but that's a different story. ;) A PCI device will show up as a question mark when no drivers are installed for it. And this happens because the BIOS has told Windows what PCI devices are present, and the ID's assiociated with it are then checked against the currently loaded driver database. A not found ID will automatically show up as a question mark, but the PCI device will be automatically disabled by Windows, until a driver is provided.

Jan Peter
 
reply to 2coats

Well I am using athlon motherboard with 4 in 1 drivers (which I've insdtalled from the CD).I have AK-74 motherboard.

I'm not playing HoI only few days but now I miss it very much.
 
Get rid of those pesky VIA 4in1 drivers ASAP. Those are buggy as hell, and can cause all sorts of trouble, both in the AGP (video card) and IDE (harddisk, CD-ROM) department.

You don't need the VIA IDE drivers anyway. The default ones from Microsoft are more than adequate.

With the VIA IDE drivers installed on my system (some 18 months ago I didn't know any better, just as you now ;)), I couldn't even INSTALL soldier of fortune II. My system would freeze solid at around 40% of the installation process. After getting rid of the VIA IDE busmaster drivers and replacing them with standard Microsoft ones, the installation ran without a hitch.

Jan Peter
 
1. How to get rid o the 4in1 drivers
2. Where can I find those that "standard microsoft ones"
 
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