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Why won't my computer boot after I installed the drivers for my Creative Labs Live!Ware sound card?
John Savill
July 23, 2001
1 Min Read
A. If you installed Live!Ware drivers for Windows NT or earlier versions, your Windows 2000 machine might not boot and might display the following error:
STOP: 0x0000001E KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED errorTo work around this problem, perform the following steps:
Press F8 when you boot the machine to display the options menu.
Select "Safe mode with command prompt."
Move to the %systemroot%system32 folder.
Rename the ctmm32.dll file, changing the extension to .old (i.e., ctmm32.old).
Reboot the machine in Normal mode.
Download and install the latest Windows 2000 drivers.
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