I suspect it's the lack of drivers more than anything else. Especially if
you're using the JMicron RAID channels, which it looks like you must do on
that board, just like mine, in fact.. Have to set everything to IDE (in
BIOS) and pray. Or put one IDE drive and one CD drive on the IDE channel,
disable the rest. Heck, I have trouble installing Vista on mine, never mind
98. XP handles it just fine, though. I know, not much help, but if it's the
drivers... all bets are off.

Limiting RAM as suggested, which can be done in Safe Mode, might help help.
See:
"Memory Management in Win98 & ME"
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.php

Try a PS/2 mouse if you haven't already. Might work in Safe Mode.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP -- Shell/User
http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
http://grystmill.com/articles/tz_update.htm.htm

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On 24 Feb, 10:23, "philo" wrote:
"Hilarious" wrote in message

Not likely to get win98 working on that machine.
[snip]
If the games don't run on win2k you could try running them on Wine (in
Linux)

Or as suggested elsewhere, install win98 in a virtual machine

Thanks to both of you. Quality advice is wonderful to receive!

It makes me a little sad to think that Win98 is a no-hoper on my flash
new kit (Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H by the way, 1GB DDR2). I shall try
the wine route - I have failed many times along it - but not the
Virtual PC one as I am running (defunct?) W2000 not XP, etc.

I am also having troubles installing/running-live Linuxes on this new
kit as well. I thought these woes were related but can see many
other reasons why they probaly aren't.

Thanks again.