that's a great idea! here's the results metajemo@metajemo-laptop:~/orcad$ wine setup.exe fixme:ntoskrnl:IoGetConfigurationInformation partial stub err:winedevice:ServiceMain driver L"hardlock" failed to load err:winedevice:ServiceMain driver L"Haspnt" failed to load wine: Call from 0x7b844fc0 to unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoQueryDeviceDescription, aborting wine: Unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoQueryDeviceDescription called at address 0x7b844fc0 (thread 002a), starting debugger... Unhandled exception: unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoQueryDeviceDescription called in 32-bit code (0x7b845036). Register dump: CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b EIP:7b845036 ESP:7ec6363c EBP:7ec636a0 EFLAGS:00200246( - 00 - IZP1) EAX:7b82eed5 EBX:7b8b4df8 ECX:00000000 EDX:7ec636c4 ESI:7ec636c4 EDI:00460200 Stack dump: 0x7ec6363c: 7ec636c4 00000008 00000000 00000000 0x7ec6364c: 80000100 00000001 00000000 7b844fc0 0x7ec6365c: 00000002 7edfbca0 7edfdea1 00000000 0x7ec6366c: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x7ec6367c: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x7ec6368c: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Backtrace: =>0 0x7b845036 in kernel32 (+0x25036) (0x7ec636a0) 1 0x7edfbc46 in ntoskrnl (+0x1bc46) (0x7ec636d0) 2 0x7edf377c in ntoskrnl (+0x1377c) (0x7ec639d8) 3 0x7ee4fe27 in advapi32 (+0x2fe27) (0x7ec63a28) 4 0x7bc714be call_thread_entry_point+0xe() in ntdll (0x7ec63a38) 5 0x7bc715e2 in ntdll (+0x615e2) (0x7ec63ad8) 6 0x7bc72492 in ntdll (+0x62492) (0x7ec643c8) 7 0xb7e2250f start_thread+0xbf() in libpthread.so.0 (0x7ec644c8) 8 0xb7d9ea0e __clone+0x5e() in libc.so.6 (0x00000000) 0x7b845036: movl 0xfffffffc(%ebp),%ebx Modules: Module Address Debug info Name (26 modules) PE 450000- 462a00 Deferred sentinel.sys ELF 7b800000-7b93c000 Export kernel32<elf> \-PE 7b820000-7b93c000 \ kernel32 ELF 7bc00000-7bcad000 Export ntdll<elf> \-PE 7bc10000-7bcad000 \ ntdll ELF 7bf00000-7bf03000 Deferred <wine-loader> ELF 7eb3e000-7eb54000 Deferred hal<elf> \-PE 7eb40000-7eb54000 \ hal ELF 7ec65000-7ecca000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf> \-PE 7ec70000-7ecca000 \ rpcrt4 ELF 7eddb000-7ee14000 Export ntoskrnl<elf> \-PE 7ede0000-7ee14000 \ ntoskrnl ELF 7ee14000-7ee68000 Export advapi32<elf> \-PE 7ee20000-7ee68000 \ advapi32 ELF 7ee68000-7ee81000 Deferred libnsl.so.1 ELF 7ee81000-7ee8a000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2 ELF 7ee8e000-7eea2000 Deferred winedevice<elf> \-PE 7ee90000-7eea2000 \ winedevice ELF 7efc2000-7efe8000 Deferred libm.so.6 ELF 7efe9000-7eff5000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2 ELF 7eff5000-7f000000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2 ELF b7cb9000-b7cbd000 Deferred libdl.so.2 ELF b7cbd000-b7e1b000 Export libc.so.6 ELF b7e1c000-b7e35000 Export libpthread.so.0 ELF b7e4d000-b7f88000 Deferred libwine.so.1 ELF b7f8a000-b7fa7000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2 Threads: process tid prio (all id:s are in hex) 00000008 00000009 0 0000000a 0000000b 0 0000000c 00000029 0 00000023 0 00000019 0 00000013 0 00000012 0 0000000e 0 0000000d 0 0000000f 00000014 0 00000011 0 00000010 0 00000020 00000025 0 00000024 0 00000022 0 00000021 0 00000026 (D) C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe 0000002a 0 <== 00000028 0 00000027 0 Backtrace: =>0 0x7b845036 in kernel32 (+0x25036) (0x7ec636a0) 1 0x7edfbc46 in ntoskrnl (+0x1bc46) (0x7ec636d0) 2 0x7edf377c in ntoskrnl (+0x1377c) (0x7ec639d8) 3 0x7ee4fe27 in advapi32 (+0x2fe27) (0x7ec63a28) 4 0x7bc714be call_thread_entry_point+0xe() in ntdll (0x7ec63a38) 5 0x7bc715e2 in ntdll (+0x615e2) (0x7ec63ad8) 6 0x7bc72492 in ntdll (+0x62492) (0x7ec643c8) 7 0xb7e2250f start_thread+0xbf() in libpthread.so.0 (0x7ec644c8) 8 0xb7d9ea0e __clone+0x5e() in libc.so.6 (0x00000000) wine: Call from 0x7b844fc0 to unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoQueryDeviceDescription, aborting wine: Call from 0x7b844fc0 to unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoQueryDeviceDescription, aborting metajemo@metajemo-laptop:~/orcad$ fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x331510) using GetSystemInfo() err:ole:get_unmarshaler_from_stream Failed to read common OBJREF header, 0x00000000 err:ole:dispatch_rpc no apartment found for ipid {ffffffff-ffff-ffff-3200-00002f000000} err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0x80010108 err:ole:dispatch_rpc no apartment found for ipid {ffffffff-ffff-ffff-3200-00002f000000} err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0x80010108 err:ole:dispatch_rpc no apartment found for ipid {ffffffff-ffff-ffff-3200-00002f000000} err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0x80010108 err:ole:dispatch_rpc no apartment found for ipid {ffffffff-ffff-ffff-3200-00002f000000} err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0x80010108 the messages in the end repeat cause i've tryied the instalation twice, then i left the setup manager