Should DMA assignments survive reboot? My new Pentium 4 is still behaving flakily: 1. Modem problems now cured (I hope) by new software modem; 2. BIOS and/or power supply and/or front panel On/Off switch are all suspect because PC sometimes fails to reboot until power at back panel turned...

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

hi,Thanks for any help. ,i can not dowenload i tunes on my windows 98. shuebox said: problem with installer package a DLL could not run!? what to do? -- sen

I am reinstalling Windows 98 on a small hard drive (8g) and everytime I try it gets to "Windows 98 is now installing its driver database" and everything freezes up and at the top left of the screen it says"Your program caused a divide overflow error. If the problem persists contact your program...

Hi, Whenever I start W98 a prompt comes up, "Display Control" Windows cannot use the display setting you have chosen. If I X it out everything works fine, I have tried changing resolution/colors etc. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have posted this on another newsgroup to no avail. I do...

I have acquired a computer (Dell L733r). I nuked it and installed W98SE. Now when I go to Display Properties | Settings, all I can get is 640x480 at 16 colors. It says it's using Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA). I do not have any support disks that may have originally come with the computer....

Well Im trying to get a driver name for my video display adapter. And its a onboard video card.I only get 16 color display when I should have up to 32Bit. My computer has 3 Operating systems: 1. Windows 98 SE 2.Windows 2000PRO. 3.Windows XP Home Edition Both Win2000&XP knows the name of the display...

Have Windows 98 installed on computer (Sony PCG-505TR) with limited disk space. Want to install 802.11b pc card. Vendor says requires Windows 98 SE. How much more disk space does this require?

dear good folks as my printer and CD-RW drive are working erratically in Windows XP Professional, i converted the c: partition of my 20 GB Seagate (ST320432A) to FAT 32. then i booted the machine using the Windows 98 startup disk and started the computer with CD-ROM support and proceeded to install...

Does anyone have any thoughts as to why Disk Defrag only works in Safe Mode on my PC? Is there some registry setting I can change?

I made a stupid mistake today on my old Win98 SE PC. I allowed Windows Update to upgrade DirectX to version 9.0c, and I did not do a backup first. Now when the computer starts up, everything looks fine, I log in with my user name and password, the start bar on the bottom of the screen displays...

To any knowledgeable readers, I'm running a PIII 450 MgHz., with 256 Mg. of RAM, a Guillemot Riva TNT2 video card with 32 MG of memory, all using Win. 98 SE. I have upgraded my video card driver with a more recent version of the appropriate NVidia driver and Direct X 9.0. Now, any 3D animation...

Hi, I have a digital camera (video/stills) which uses a Hitachi 4GB microdrive for the storage. I can transfer files from it via USB to my XP laptop, as the XP automatically recognises the camera and it comes up as a 'drive letter'. Can anyone tell me how I can do this using my win98 ...

I recently installed W98SE on a computer with no operating system. (This is the first time I've done this.) On finishing I tried to install the software from an ATT connection service and got a message that a file 'wisehlp.dll' was not found on the CDROM and the installation of the ATT software...

What is the difference between the Windows 98 Second Edition upgrade disk and the update disk. I need to re- install Windows 98, and when I did, it was asking for the SE disk. Do I need to use the upgrade or update disk?

Hi, been reading a few posts, and realize I made a similar mistake to others. I did a quick restore on our old compaq to give to my sister, but I think it went beyond factory, it seems to have completely erased everything. It is telling me that there is no operating system, and can't find...

Recently I did a clean install of window 98 SE on my laptop. During the end of the installing it, it asked for me to find and install a group of files for what I think was for the different hardware in the laptop. I.E. modem, infrared port, sound card and etcetera. And I only have 16 colors and...

What do I do to stop my W98SE machine from dialing the internet every few minutes? Jim L -- To h___ with Iraqi democracy! Withdraw the troops! Or something!!!

My friend just bought a second-hand PC from the IT department at his workplace. It has Windows 98 (not SE) and has always been used on a network. I bought a 56k PCI modem and installed it OK, but dial-up networking on the machine is missing. Going into add/remove programs and clicking on the...

In Network setup, seeking the simplest internet connection, Microsoft TCP/IP is available OK but simple Dial Up Adapter is not listed (among either Protocols or Devices) -- although I am sure it was there last week. . . . So what do I do now ? --