>Greetings!
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>I am installing VB4.0 using 3.5" floppies (DMF) and get the following error message before the setup program displays the splash screen:
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>"A device attached to the system is not functioning."
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>First, I checked all the obvious places, such as system devices, printers, modems, etc. I rebooted, I turned off the PC.
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>Next, I went to Microsoft's on-line support site and found the message could be caused by errors in the VBRUN300.DLL or WINOA386.MOD files, if there were problems with Visual Basic 3.0 or getting into an MS-DOS session, respectively. I extracted new copies from the CAB files, as the fix action said, but nothing.
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>Then, I found another reference that the error could be encountered if I was installing Win95 with the wrong settings in CONFIG.SYS. So, I tweaked the file, just in case. Still nothing.
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>Okay... so, any other ideas? I need to install version 4.0 since I want to develop 16-bit applications, unless VB5.0 can compile 16 bit, as well as 32.
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>I would appreciate any assistance!
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>Thank you,
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>Michael Reynolds
>herbalst@west.net

Did you try to check if all your devices are functioning correctly for Win95? To do so, right-click on "My Computer", then "Properties" from the drop-down menu. Then, click on the "Device Manager" tab. If any device isn't functioning according to Win95 (not detectred, driver error, or Windows just acting like it's usual self), it will be displayed there.

Hugo Dahl