FIX: IOS Failed to Initialize Error During Installation

• Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0
  on the following platforms: Windows 95
• Microsoft Windows 95 OEM Service Release versions 1, 2, 2.1

SYMPTOMS

Installing Visual Basic version 5.0 on a system running Windows 95 with the OEM Service Release listed above may cause the following error message to be displayed during the system restart:

"Windows initializing device IOS: Windows protection error IOS failed to Initialize, Please restart"

RESOLUTION

In many cases this error has been caused by driver problems. You should contact your vendor to see if an updated driver is available to fix the problem.

It is also possible that the error is caused by the problem described in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q157924 Error Message "IOS Failed to Initialize" on Boot

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has been fixed in Microsoft Windows 98.

Additional query words: kbVBp500BUG kbWinOS98FIX kbVBp kbDSupport KBDSD kbNoKeyWord

Keywords : kbGrpVB
Version : WINDOWS:5.0,95;
Platform : Win95 WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb