I have an old laptop running Windows 98 First Edition that I have been asked to upgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition. I have the full program install CD for the Windows 98 Second Edition. Can I do an upgrade from this disk or will everything come crashing down? Any tricks or "got-cha's"?

I am performing a clean Win98SE install on a Supermicro P6SBU mobo. During the initial Windows 98 Setup routine, on the Hardware Detection screen it says: "Windows is now detecting non Plug and Play hardware in your computer..." (It goes on to provide more general info, but I've snipped it here...

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Hello, I own a IBM Thinkpad 600e and I am having severe problems booting up the machine on Windows 98. Everytime I attempt to start-up ot displays the following message: 'Error Message: While Initializing Device VKD -- Windows Protection Error -- You Need to Restart Your Computer'. Even in safe it...

Hello, I have a problem that I haven't seen here yet, although I expect it is here somewhere. I have a desktop PC, 350 MHz, running Win98SE. One day it "lost" the sound card. I re-installed it, and went through all the steps of installing drivers. Windows said it was installed correctly.

I just bought an Iomega external hard drive and danged if I can't get it to work. I followed the instructions to the letter, which weren't much -- "Put in the CD. Run start.exe. Reboot. Plug in the AC to the drive. Connect the USB cable to the computer." Hit don't work. The USB is from a card. ...

After running Registry fix with Norton WinDoc, I have been unable to get into NetZero. I also temporarily lost the IRQ on my modem, but I got it back. NetZero says my installation is corrupted. (Looking online I get some paranoid messages of people who think NetZero is trying to force them to...

I have an older computer on which Win98 is running. This system basically crashed after an attempt to re-install a printer that was giving me a problem. I have tried re-installing Win98 from the CD that came with my IBM computer, but I get a message saying that I already have an upgraded version...

What will happend to a 250GB disk with 4 x 60GB partitions under Win98se? As long as the disk is connected though USB from an external USB cabinet Win98se sees all 4 partitions and can read/write as normal But will this work diffrently when I hook up the disk to the internal S-ATA controller and...

I was looking to create a custom bootable CD. I've been noticing that my floppy disk drive is on it's last leg and instead of replacing it I would like to create a bootable cd which would include all my startup disks from win 95 to win 2003. So that on any given occassion I could use my custom...

at E:\win98se prompt I type setup and get the following: Please wait while setup initializes. Windows setup requires 'largest executable program size' to be at least 442868 bytes to run. E:\win98se What is that? built several pc's, never have seen that message when trying to install win98se to...

Hi I have an old Win98se HP computer which I am going to give to my Grandson. I want to do a clean install and have inserted the rescue floppy and restore disc 1 as per the instructions. I then boot up the computer and everything goes well until after the cd rom has started. A message finally...

I am upgrading Win95 to Win98, setup /c, and when the script gets to installing drivers, the graphic stops, and eventually a blue screen with a message about not being able to write to the C drive comes up. And the process stops. Is there a fix or workaround for this problem?

I click on any icon - anywhere - and nothing happens. How do I fix it?? Ray

I can't properly install windows on said computer without getting this message during the process of setting up the "plug and play" devices on the computer. MSGSRV32 apperantly caused an illegal operation and was shut down "MSGSRV32 caused a general protection fault in module SETUPX.DLL at...

I bought an Intel(R) PRO/100 LAN+Modem56 CardBus II (mbla3456) OEM, but I really need the CD. Any suggestions? Jim L -- Reporters complain that Guantanamo interrogators use psychological pressure on prisoners. Glad somebody's doing their job.

I've a portable (HP Pavilion dv5000) where I need a dual boot with win98se. I have 2 problems: - Which video driver should I use to have a resolution of 800 x 600? My video card is NVIDIA GEFORCE GO 7400. - When I shut down the computer, it is stuch with a screen "windows is shutting down". I...

Curt, I have this problem also. What number did you call to get this for free? All I can find at the link you provided is one that states cost $35! Any chance you can post this patch? Thanks, gm Curt Christianson wrote:

I'm getting this error when trying to add a printer: RUNDLL32 caused an invalid page fault in module MSPRINT2.DLL at 0167:79d71a2e. I've tried reinstalling rundll32.exe and msprint2.dll. This happened after trying to install windows me and then trying to reinstall windows 98.

Below is the copy of the response to this problem from a month ago! I've tried both solutions but still no success. This is an all usb pc...does that help? Any further assistance would be great. Tks. And, should Noel's correct solution not work for some reason, try a work around by assigning a...