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usb drives fr win98
In message , Rich
newtech writes: I was unable to remove from the "add/remove" progams so i'm just going to re-install the os. What does FWIW mean? Also, thanks for the new link. I'll try those drivers after i get my internet connection. I would try to find an ethernet pccard but again i am trying to fix this for my brother and he was going to throw it away. I'm already into if for $65 for parts not counting about a week's worth of time trying to get it done. Then another $30 to ship it back to him (he's in georgia and i'm in CA)So i'm not ready to spend any more on it. Plus i think he is going to have "dial up" so he'll be able to us the pc card. It gets to a point when it will make more sense for him to get a newer used machine close to where he is. But thanks for the help. Hopefully this will solve the problem. [] (FWIW=for what it's worth.) IME (in my experience), the universal USB drivers you had (the "Maximus Decim Generic USB Driver") can cause problems if installed on a system which already has drivers for USB devices on it (I've even had it break Windows altogether). Conversely, I've installed it as more or less the first thing on a newly-rebuilt machine (one I bought for 75 pounds - for a friend who wanted one - which had just more or less had the OS installed), and it works fine. If I rebuild a system from scratch, I might use it. Though I'd be more likely to use soporific's UBCD alis "Windows 98 tenth anniversary edition" - I've built two machines from scratch using that and it is good, I've only had problems with trying to use it on an existing system - and that has a universal USB driver included; I'm not sure if it's the Maximus Decim one, though I think it is. Though having said that, I'm pleased to see you managed to get things sorted with the Italian-based one glee pointed you too, which I'm now going to look at: I like the idea of one that _doesn't_ have to be installed first, as it were. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** "When I was young I used to scintillate now I only sin 'til ten past three" (Ogden Nash) [via Andy Breen] |
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