When I leave my computer for a long period of time I get
the following error:

"While initializing device VMPOLL

Windows protection error. You need to restart your
computer.

System halted."

Just a note:
This is happening on Windows ME, and the system has
worked fine in the past so there should be no hardware
incompadibilities or anything to that effect.

Thanks,
James

Re: Startup Problem - further by Noel

Noel
Sun Feb 29 04:51:35 CST 2004

VMPOLL is a vxd driver loaded as part of VMM32.VXD
it's possible that your system has somehow got hold of an incorrect
version....
Look in the folder C:\Windows\System32\VMM32
is there a copy of VMPOLL there (there shouldn't be, AFAIK)? - what's the
version number?

If there's a copy of VMPOLL in the VMM32 folder it would indicate that there
is a different version in VMM32.vxd - and we'll have to find a way to
restore the original.

Do a search on your PC for files named VMPOLL - see what it reports.

It's worth checking also for viruses - update your virus scanner and run a
full scan of all files.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

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"James" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I leave my computer for a long period of time I get
> the following error:
>
> "While initializing device VMPOLL
>
> Windows protection error. You need to restart your
> computer.
>
> System halted."
>
> Just a note:
> This is happening on Windows ME, and the system has
> worked fine in the past so there should be no hardware
> incompadibilities or anything to that effect.
>
> Thanks,
> James