{"id":242,"date":"2005-04-05T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/error-message-while-initializing-device-ndis-windows-protection-error-when-installing-windows-95-98\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:11:17","slug":"error-message-while-initializing-device-ndis-windows-protection-error-when-installing-windows-95-98","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/error-message-while-initializing-device-ndis-windows-protection-error-when-installing-windows-95-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Error Message &#8220;While initializing device NDIS: Windows protection error&#8221; when Installing Windows 95\/98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong>&nbsp; <\/p>\r\n  <p>When installing Windows 95 or Windows 98 on a system that has a CPU rated at 2.2 GHz or higher, you receive the following error message:<\/p>\r\n  <p><font color=\"#ff0000\">While initializing device NDIS: Windows protection error<\/font><\/p>\r\n  <p><strong>Cause:<\/strong>&nbsp; <\/p>\r\n  <p>This issue is caused by a timing problem in the Windows Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver.&nbsp; The problem does not occur on systems with a CPU rated at 2.1 GHz or lower.<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong>Solution:<\/strong>&nbsp; <\/p>\r\n  <p>An updated driver is available from Microsoft, but cannot be downloaded directly.&nbsp; You must contact Microsoft Support for a resolution.&nbsp; Please refer to the following Microsoft Help and Support article for more information:<\/p>\r\n  <p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows Protection Error in NDIS with a CPU That Is Faster Than 2.1 GHz<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem:&nbsp; When installing Windows 95 or Windows 98 on a system that has a CPU rated at 2.2 GHz or higher, you receive the following error message: While initializing device NDIS: Windows protection error Cause:&nbsp; This issue is caused by a timing problem in the Windows Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver.&nbsp; The problem does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1781],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2138],"class_list":["post-242","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-9x-me","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-9x-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6127,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/242\/revisions\/6127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}