[Vita-P]

Date: 6/30/2004

E mail: pwelsh817@cs.com

Operating system: Windows 98 SE

Action before error: Frequent disconnects from my ISP, inability to run Windows Media Player, inability to download off of the internet because it disconnects in the middle of the download, other applications get error messages all saying that the file below is the problem.

Steps taken to correct the error: Ran a utility that finds problems on your computer.

Results: The message was ?<unknown> performed an invalid memory access? and ?ATMSYS.DRV has altered windows system files?. The path it displayed was C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ATMSYS.DRV. The application name was Wcs2000.exe.

Question: If this driver is bad?is there a way to extract this driver from a Win98SE disk? I have two of them. If the driver is not the problem will you give me a hint about what else could be the problem?areas that I need to check.

[Rockn]

You can only extract a driver from the Win98 disk if it is part of their core set of drivers. I would suspect that you may have a virus or some other exploit has been run on your PC. Check out the virus scenario first and make sure everything is clean, run Windoze Update. It may even be that your modem is defective as they do take hits from electrical storms and also die of natural causes...whatever that is for computer components.