Need Advice

I'm changing my DSL ISP's and the new one says they require W98SE. I
have a W98 SE Updates CD but have never needed to install it before. My
question is, Is there anything I should be aware of, or do prior to making
the upgrade. Thanks, Paul

I guess you are just going to have to try it and see how it works. I
recently used an OEM SE Updates CD issued by HP and the PC would not boot
after installing SE. This update was to a fresh load of W98 and all
attempts to fix it failed. I finally just reinstalled W98 using the HP
restore CD and all was well. If I never have to work on an HP or Compaq
again it will be too soon :-(
--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



""Lou"" wrote in message
...
I'm changing my DSL ISP's and the new one says they require W98SE. I
have a W98 SE Updates CD but have never needed to install it before. My
question is, Is there anything I should be aware of, or do prior to making
the upgrade. Thanks, Paul

The update CD is said to be very buggy, so why not buy a full copy of 98 SE
on eBay, which should be going cheap due to the fact that support for 98 ends
on 30 June 2006.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

""Lou"" wrote:

I'm changing my DSL ISP's and the new one says they require W98SE. I
have a W98 SE Updates CD but have never needed to install it before. My
question is, Is there anything I should be aware of, or do prior to making
the upgrade. Thanks, Paul

I don't know where you heard it but I suspect that what you heard is not
true. The Updates CD is nearly identical (if not exactly identical) to the
Upgrade CD except for the installation routine that requires Updates to be
installed over a working copy of W98.

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"Eric" wrote in message
...
The update CD is said to be very buggy, so why not buy a full copy of 98
SE
on eBay, which should be going cheap due to the fact that support for 98
ends
on 30 June 2006.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

""Lou"" wrote:

I'm changing my DSL ISP's and the new one says they require W98SE. I
have a W98 SE Updates CD but have never needed to install it before. My
question is, Is there anything I should be aware of, or do prior to
making
the upgrade. Thanks, Paul

I've used the "upgrade" and the "update" CD ...the only problem I've had is
when the OS had pre-existing problems

Cheers!
"Ron Badour" wrote in message
...
I don't know where you heard it but I suspect that what you heard is not
true. The Updates CD is nearly identical (if not exactly identical) to the
Upgrade CD except for the installation routine that requires Updates to be
installed over a working copy of W98.

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"Eric" wrote in message
...
The update CD is said to be very buggy, so why not buy a full copy of 98
SE
on eBay, which should be going cheap due to the fact that support for 98
ends
on 30 June 2006.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

""Lou"" wrote:

I'm changing my DSL ISP's and the new one says they require W98SE. I
have a W98 SE Updates CD but have never needed to install it before. My
question is, Is there anything I should be aware of, or do prior to
making
the upgrade. Thanks, Paul

If you used the first OEM upgrade disk from HP (they issued 2, you had to
ask for the second) it contained a bad hard drive controller driver (HP
version. Was that the esdi_506? Sorry don't remember the exact file) which
would naturally not let the system load... ran in to several customers 'way
back when' that had that problem.

"Ron Badour" wrote in message
...
I guess you are just going to have to try it and see how it works. I
recently used an OEM SE Updates CD issued by HP and the PC would not boot
after installing SE. This update was to a fresh load of W98 and all
attempts to fix it failed. I finally just reinstalled W98 using the HP
restore CD and all was well. If I never have to work on an HP or Compaq
again it will be too soon :-(
--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



""Lou"" wrote in message
...
I'm changing my DSL ISP's and the new one says they require W98SE. I
have a W98 SE Updates CD but have never needed to install it before. My
question is, Is there anything I should be aware of, or do prior to
making
the upgrade. Thanks, Paul

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, this was a machine that I was working
on and I do not know the history of the Updates disk. Just for grins, I
tried using my retail full version SE disk to perform an upgrade and as
expected, it too failed.
--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"MEB" meb@not wrote in message
...
If you used the first OEM upgrade disk from HP (they issued 2, you had to
ask for the second) it contained a bad hard drive controller driver (HP
version. Was that the esdi_506? Sorry don't remember the exact file) which
would naturally not let the system load... ran in to several customers
'way
back when' that had that problem.

"Ron Badour" wrote in message
...
I guess you are just going to have to try it and see how it works. I
recently used an OEM SE Updates CD issued by HP and the PC would not boot
after installing SE. This update was to a fresh load of W98 and all
attempts to fix it failed. I finally just reinstalled W98 using the HP
restore CD and all was well. If I never have to work on an HP or Compaq
again it will be too soon :-(
--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



""Lou"" wrote in message
...
I'm changing my DSL ISP's and the new one says they require W98SE. I
have a W98 SE Updates CD but have never needed to install it before.
My
question is, Is there anything I should be aware of, or do prior to
making
the upgrade. Thanks, Paul