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    Lucent Winmodem on Laptop

    http://69.93.239.98:8000/01/499878TxTIGz/atiragemobility-WIN9X.exe works a treat, thatnks all
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    Lucent Winmodem on Laptop

    funnily enough i've had a few replies on other forums saying "no chance" but with a bit of perserverance and a lot of luck i've managed to find a driver that works. thanks
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    Lucent Winmodem on Laptop

    I have a toshiba lapto on which i've just installed win98. i found drivers for all the hardware except internal modem, which under win me was identified as a Lucen WDM communication device. When i first install windows, the modem is detected and appears in device manager with the yellow problem...
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    Installing 98 over ME?

    OK, i've gone ahead and installed 98, and all is good apart from the modem which is not detected. Under ME it was identified as a Lucen WDM Communication Device. when I first install windows the modem is recognized and appears under device manager with the yellow problem icon. I have tried a...
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    Installing 98 over ME?

    I have a laptop with ME installed, and I want a clean install of 98. I do not have any of the original software that came with the (Toshiba) laptop, so am concerned about hardware drivers. What would anyone suggest; I thought maybe installing 98 over the existing ME, then 98 would detect the...
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    "Unable to open web"

    That's the beauty! I'd been searching through microsoft and google for days with no joy, that article looks like it will solve the problem, or at least the workaround will help Much obliged
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    "Unable to open web"

    Thank's for that, I'd already tried Microsoft support, but those articles don't address our problem; We can't open anything. Selecting the menu options for open / open web simply spawns an error message, no open dialogue, so it is no as if we are trying to open a file we have no access to or...
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    "Unable to open web"

    I'm a tutor teaching IT, and several of our students have encountered this problem: When we try to "Open" in front page, we get the message "Unable to open web" (no dialogue box, just the error). When we try to "Open web", again no dialogue, but the following...
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    Which files can I safely delete

    Since I got my new palm, I've gone a bit mad on the software installing, so now I'm out of space on my mighty 2Mb Palm Zire. I uninstalled some of the apps from my palm, but I'm not sure which files I should or should not remove eg Graffiti 15k SDDIPalmDB 12k SF-EE_SysHeap 1k Temp Install Data...
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    Cannot install windows software

    For anyone who is interested, I have now solved this problem: I was running 98Lite, which is windows 98 with IE removed. The palm desktop software require IE 5.0, (although I don't think the support documentation mentions this, it wasn't on the "system requirements" when I bought the...
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    Cannot install windows software

    I've already tried downloading the software, and it performed exactly the same as the copy that came with the handheld. I'm now downloading an older version to see if that works
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    Cannot install windows software

    I've got a Palm Zire and whenever I try to install the software on my desktop i get an error message: "internal error 2738:costfinalizecustom", and it goes no further Running windows 98
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    GA-7VAXP won't shutdown!

    Turns out If i disable "Wake on PME" in the BIOS, evcerything is fine. Course, i've no idea what "Wake on PME" is.
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    GA-7VAXP won't shutdown!

    I've just built a new box based around a GA-7VAXP, with a 1300 duron, and win 98Lite installed. Whenever I try to shutdown the box restarts. I've tried clean install onto a new hdd and tried swapping the power switch connections aropund on the motherboard. Any ideas?
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    Strange chassis layout

    sorted - the most bizzarre case i've ever come across, but it seems to work now.

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