Bad Cab's?

[Undertow]

When I try to load a new device (e.g. usb mouse or anything for that matter) windows says there is an error in the cab files. At the time I had 2 copies of the cabs on two different drives, actuall HDD's, not just partitions. Then I tried from the CD, same thing. I tried a different CD, same thing. Anyone heard of a situation like this? I haven't had any other problems with my new system besides this, and it only started doing it a while after I had reinstalled win98SE. I know I don't have drive problems, that isn't logical in this situation, it's windows, **** windows. Got any ideas?

[rekrot]

Hi Undertow. I had the same problem on an old pentium 100 clone yesterday. I was trying to change the network name when win95b asked for the cd. Funny thing is that it asked for the win98se cd. (This is a computer on our network.) I tried feeding it the win95b cd and got the cab error you described. After clicking ok to try to see if win would find the file, it acted liked it copied some and then would hang again on the bad cab file error. I tried several cd's which were burned and a oem win cd. After rebooting win still said there was a problem with the drivers for the nic in System properties page. I removed the offending item and rebooted, thinking win would see it and ask for the drivers. Instead, I got: Program error, your program is making an invalid dynamic link call to a dll file and a close button. I tried putting in a new sys.ini as described in MS Knowledge base but it did not work. I had to eventually reload the system. It really needed it anyway. Most everything is ok on the pc now except win doesn't want to install the correct driver for the scsi nic for the ext. zip 100 drive. I will follow this string to see if someone else has had the same problem. My cd's are in good shape but maybe a magnetic screwdriver I put in my tool bag zapped it! Thanks, Robert E.

[Steve R Jones]

This Setup (.cab) File...
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q140/9/01.asp