vpowered.vxd

Hi,
I am a BB virgin so please be gentle with me if I **** up (excuse the pun).

My prob. is I have no graphics online and my wallpaper has vanished. I believe the problem lies with a driver vpowered.vxd which seems to have disappeared. I have searched for two weeks and the only thing I have found is that it is an IBM clone, which means nothing to me. I have searched the forums to no avail.

Can anyone help please.

johnd

 

Boot with a start up floppy, choose CDRom support, watch the screen for the drive letter for the CD, it will not be the normal letter, and replace the X below the proper letter. Type in these commands with the Win98 CD in the drive, pressing Enter at the end of each one.
c:
cd\windows\system
extract /y X:\win98\base6.cab vpowerd.vxd
You should get the message 1 file extracted. Note the placement of the different / \, this is important. Take out floppy and boot.

 

Tried your suggestion and got the message:

extracting vpowerd.vxd

had a short burst of HD activity and then:

c:\windows\system>_

any idea what to do now please.

 

Try Win98 Fix

Have you given thought to trying a ScanReg Restore, which may solve the problem? In win98 you can go back to the last five days of registry changes and choose one prior to the problem. This means if the graphics problem is not over 5 days old you can restore your system. See site below for details.

http://www.alri.org/step2/usingscanreg.htm

 

Thanks Johnbald1,

A good idea. I should have done that in the first place. Unfortunately this problem has been going on for 4 weeks. I now have the driver but it didn't solve the problem, so I am going to re-post with the exact wording from problem devices.

Thanks again.

 

Probably to much time has passed for the scanreg /restore.

The vpowered.vxd is related to power managment and would likely cause shutdown problems but not what you described.

Get us the detailed info!

mike

 

Hi MFLYNN,

I've re-posted under the heading advanced power management support system as I didn't want to complicate this posting.