Basically I'm trying to help a mate fix his laptop. I haven't seen his computer so I don't know any error messages. He had about 10 viruses on his laptop and he managed to clean the viruses with antivirus but now windows won't load. It just freezes at the win98 splash screen. My question is what...

How can I install win98se on a sata hd? Hd is a maxtor 120 and got "boot" C partition 6mb and D "win98se" 20mb. TIA Evaristo

HELP! My computer is saying I do not have a cd rom installed and I know I do! What can I do to correct this problem?

Why do I keep getting this error? IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in module unknown at 0000:00000002. Registers: Thanks

First use of SiSoft Sandra diagnostic modules reports Notice 224 : SMBIOS/DMI information may be inaccurate. What does this mean? Is it fixable? Is it important? -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

Hello, I don't at the point if I am looking at an Office problem, a Win98 problem or some kind of domain policies that have been setup, but here's my problem: I am trying to help a friend getting back control of her laptop. She's using her Win98 laptop at home but also at her job (previous/old...

I just reintalled win 98se and I am missing some drivers, but I don't know what they are....what is a 'PCI ATM Controller and PCI Communication Device?' I also don not have sound even after installing correct driver. Any help out there?

Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E that won't startup. I get an error message that reads "While initializing device VKD" and that is as far as it goes. I recently installed a wireless card, and it was working okay and then this happened. Also, the battery is being drained instead of being charged by...

Just writing zero's to hard drive as in the past and during the process received that message. Does anyone know what it means? Thanks, Don

Tried rescue disk, works briefly then "error restoring to hard disk" message appears. Downloaded upgrades provided by microsoft early in June. Seemed to be working, made new rescue disk and norton virus definition set. Stopped working the same week - message said "unstable". Norton set will not...

I have two computers and one computer 98se the ethernet port is not working.I can hookup the usb to modem and everthing works;but when I hookup the other computer to the ethernet port it doesn't. My question is can I only use one port on the modem; the usb or the ethernet or can I use both.

I have been having problems with very high CPU usage when apparently doing nothing, it seems to be due to DLLHOST, when I remove it all is fine. What is it and how do I get rid /control it ? Many thanks John

My windows 98 SE CD missing two import driver softwares. I cannot connect to web to search because the driver softwares are PCI ethernet controller and pci communication driver software. I cannot connect internet without these two softwares.I want to know how can I find these software in the web...

I installed a copy of Microsoft Frontpage on my Windows 98 Pc 2 years ago. I have now got a new computer running windows 98 second edition. I lost the cd key for frontpage. I still have the original disk. Is the ary way of finding out the 25 character CD KEY from my old computer.

I have an old gateway computer, G6-350 PII, which I was preparing to give away to a 6th grader for her school work. I found all the documentation and the original CD's except the Window 98 Product ID. I reformatted the drive to delete all my information but I could not complete the reinstallation...

I have used Control Panel to create a Start-up disk. It boots into Graphics mode. Is there a way to create a start-up disk that boots into Win98-SE DOS Command Prompt? Thanks, CMA

I am trying to load Windows 98 SE onto a formatted hard drive. The computer worked fine before I formatted it. When I try to reinstall Windows from the CD the computer runs ScanDisk and the says; please remove all disks from the floppy drive and press any key to restart your computer. (or...

I had to struggle for hours for problems with 3 softwares installing some dll files. I eventually installed each software separately by clean installing win98 first each time, and finally figured out what the problem was. The dlls each of them were installing had different version numbers and...

How to connect windows 98 to mac computer ? It is possible to browse files of mac computer from a windows 98 computer ? Can an mac computer be member of a NT domain ? Thanks,

I would like to type a letter but on yhe left side of the page about three inches from the top there is a flashing line and when I take my curser to drag it off it becomes thicker but seizes to flash How do I remove this? Also, how do I set the margins on both left and right? Scott.