HI, I just got a newish used hard drive and searched all over the Net for how to freshly install my Windows 98SE and followed all the directions but it won't do the setup from the CD part. I downloaded the files from bootdisk.com ( excellent source by the way), and burned the files from my Windows,...

Hi, I almost made it through a Win98SE setup after 3 days of fighting with it. I downloaded the floppy files from bootdisk.com and put them before the Win98SE files and burned a CD from Nero 6. This time all proceeded fairly well, but when it got to the screen where you could pick the type of...

Ok people, I have an intel d915gav motherboard, and an 8Gb harddisk (fat32) (not the machine I'm using now. I know windows 98 doesn't like hyper threading, so I've disabled that in the bios. I've tried to get windows 98 to install on it, and this is how it's ended up: 1st problem was it...

I just did a clean install of windows 98 second edition on a freshly formatted hard drive and am now trying to update windows using IE5 at the MS Windows Update web page. I get the Welcome to Windows Update screen, I click on Scan for updates, and then I get a message that Windows Update has...

Hi, I am at my wits end. My friend's old Celeron PC stopped working the other week while her daughter was on the internet and she has some valuavble files, not backed up of course. At first it would just stop at the initial logo and beep continuosly, even when trying safe mode. After a few...

I am working on my neighbours computer which has windows 98. Because computer has minimum memory I have closed most of the start up items and only have his AVG anti virus and volume control in the startup menu. Should I also tick the above windows patch ????? or is it automatically...

Hi one and all! I have been watching web music and news videos, with pictures and sound. All of a sudden, the sound portion stopped. Locally, I can still play music from my CDs. That means my wire and loud speakers are in working order. What did go wrong? I have not done anything to my...

I needed to add a sound card (when the speaker circuit failed in the ASUS motherboard (Sound on Board) and earlier trials showed I needed 24-bit circuitry. (A cheap 16-bit card worked OK but with unacceptable quality for editing in Magix Audio Cleaner.) Creative Labs web site has abundant detail,...

Had a program that was giving me an error regarding kernel32.dll. So I thought to delete the current kernel and replace it will one from the WEB. After the Downloading, I copied the new kernel32 to c:\ drive (via explorer). Then in the DOS prompt I used this instruction: Copy c:\kernel32.dll...

hi, well heres the scoop......i had windows 98se on me computer with no problems....decided to upgrade to windows xp.......so i reformatted then upgraded, again no problems, except i noticed that my lil' ol 'puter just hasn't got the umph it needs to run the xp, it runs so boggedly......so decided...

Hi all, I am loading WinInet.dll since wininet.lib is included in my project, but there are 2 versions of this lib, one in XP and an old one for ie 5.0. The old one only has only a call to InternetSetCookie() as the new one has both InternetSetCookie() and When the programs starts, before I can...

Advice requested trouble-shooting total lack of sound in a 2-year-old 2.2 GHz system under Win98SE. The system is set to play the MS arpeggio wave on boot. 1. Two weeks ago the sound system started buzzing a few seconds after boot. 2. Yesterday sound played OK as usual (Control Panel/ Sounds,...

i installed win98 on a fresh system. Setup completes without any problems. Then when the first startup of win98 is pending,the pc shuts down, and reboots into a continous loop. Same thing happens when i try to start in safe mode. I already made a new install,but nothing works. What can I do?

I have an Ibm clone that I recently purchased and somehow it has dropped the winit.exe in the startup, as a result it shuts down as soon as it starts opening windows. I do not have a win 98 disk but the disk has been copied to the hard drive how can I restore the missing file since windows 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.

is there anyway for me to by-pass windows log on at start up? what should i do?

hello, When i attempt to load 98se on a clean disk i get an error msg that says: standard mode: bad fault in ms-dos extender fault: oood stack dump: 0000 0000 0070 raw fault frame: ec=0000 ip=524f cs=03c7 fl=3216 sp=0000 ss=0327 help pls. What does this means?

Hello: Does anyone know how to do the following in setting up Win98? When I right click on the desktop there is a menu that opens which has a choice "NEW" and that then includes the option to click on creating a new folder or running a number of programs. I would like to add a program as a...

Alan wrote: To try and resolve repeated random problems, I have been advised by the hard drive manufacturer to replace the Primary IDE cable. The existing cable supplied with the motherboard is a 80-conductor ribbon cable for UltraDMA/66/100/133 so technically I do believe I have the ...

i turn on the computer wth the startup disk,and regaurdless of what i try the computer gos to the windows 98 and then to the compac presario then it hangs up at that point. ive tried going threw the safe mode and it does the same thing. can any one please give me some advise as what to do?????