I/O subsystem driver failed

[tweety734]

Hi. I am new here. I have been reading alot, but couldn't find my problem listed.

I have a Dell Latitude CPi. I have Windows ME. (I bought it off of e-bay, I have the CD for ME, but no CDROM. The computer was working fine, I shut it down one day and it wouldn't start back. When I tried to start the computer, I get "ERROR - An I/O subsystem driver failed to load. Either a file in the .\iosubsys subdirectory is corrupt or the system is low on memory. System Halted.

I got a boot disk from bootdisk.com. When I ran scandisk, I had a "Invalid long file name - to fix, run scandisk for windows" in the Directory structure of the scan disk. But, I can't get into windows. Before I ran scandisk, I tried restoring the register, but I got the same error. I can't start in safe mode.. nothing. I am doing a thorough scandisk right now.. it is about 1/2 complete... any other suggestions?

I was able to see the files in DOS. There were over 300 .chk. I deleted those! What causes this i/o driver to fail? Everything was fine when I had shut it down. Thanks for any help you can give. If you need more information, I can get it.. just not sure what you will need. Rhonda

[GretaP]

Hi Rhonda,
See if the information in this MSKB article is helpful.

[tweety734]

Originally Posted by GretaP

Hi Rhonda,
See if the information in this MSKB article is helpful.

I am not able to start in safe mode.. the only way I can do anything is with the bootdisk. I can get to the C: prompt... but don't know if I can get to msconfig from there?? Thanks for replying so quick!

[30111987]

you could try restoring the regestry again to an earlier date

[tweety734]

Originally Posted by 30111987

you could try restoring the regestry again to an earlier date

I sure appreciate the replies, but I tried that too. LOL There were 4 in the registry... I tried them all. I did find something while snooping around, but wasn't sure what I could do to see if it is what I need.

While I was in DOS mode, I went to edit bootlog.txt and the last 4 lines had "File not found" after them. The lines are as follows:
[00025CD9] Dynamic load device C:\WINDOWS\system\IOSUBSYS\rmm.pdr
[00025CDC] Dynamic load failed C:\WINDOWS\system\IOSUBSYS\rmm.pdr : [00025CDD] File not found
[00025CDD] Dynamic load device c:\WINDOWS\system\IOSUBSYS\bigmem.drv
[00025CDF] Dynamic load failed c:\WINDOWS\system\IOSUBSYS\bigmem.drv : [00025CE0] File not found

I also just noticed something else in the bootlog.txt. Below the DEVICEINITSUCCESS = CONFIGMG there are also 4 lines that are not right. There are "starting unknown (HTREE\ROOT\0).... started unknown, enumerating unknown and enumerated unknown. Each on a different line, but with the same (HTREE\ROOT\0) line in there.

I tried a search for the rmm.pdr and bigmem.drv to see if I could download these and add them. But I couldn't find anything to download. I'd really like to get this darn thing going. My cousin is A+ certified, she told me that the computer had a virus, fried my computer and I wont be able to use it. I can't believe that. Everything is there... I just have to find a way to get past the I/O error. aarrrrgggghhhhh

Any other ideas? From DOS is there a way to change the memory settings.. if so, how do I do it? Thanks again!

[30111987]

if you have a me disk you could try instaling windows over the top of itself...