page fault in non paged area - URGENT

[carpeliam]

I was trying to connect my front usb ports via the cables that came attached to the case to the pins on the motherboard, and I made a fatal error: I attached one of the ground cables to the pin for power, and vice versa. Now, win98 can ONLY boot in to a command prompt, and I can get win2k in to safe mode but I can't do anything from within it that seems to be able to fix it.

This renders my computer unusable. I need to figure out how to fix this ASAP. I need your help... please. Thanks.

I've reset my bios as well as my cmos battery, and I've disabled USB altogether on my machine via the bios (as well as unplugged the cables). Liam Morley
lmorley@wpi.edu
"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.
light the world, and bring depth to the silence."

 

[carpeliam]

The problem has now changed. No longer am I getting the above blue screens... a friend of mine suggested to swap RAM in and out. I'm not sure if this changed anything, as I've got both RAM cards back in, albeit in a different order. I was also able to get Norton Win Doctor running in Win2k, which allowed me to clean out some bad registry values.<br><br>Now, I just have WinMgmt performing illegal operations (standard 'this could not be &quot;read&quot;' errors) every once in a while in Win2k. In Win98se, I'm able to get to a main screen, but it freezes sometime while the system tray is populating.<br><br>Help would be extremely appreciated. <p>Liam Morley<br><A HREF="mailto:"></A><br>&quot;light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>light the world, and bring depth to the silence.&quot;

 

[carpeliam]

scratch that, I re-installed both operating systems. brute force worked, I'm all set. Rewired the USB connector, works fine now. <p>Liam Morley<br><A HREF="mailto:"></A><br>&quot;light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>light the world, and bring depth to the silence.&quot;