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Hi, Just got an old pentium 550 off a freind, and am trying to use a startup disk to format the HD, so I can reinstall W98 etc... Once the floppy has been checked on boot, the bios screens flash by, and it normally gets to: Verifying pool data Then just halts..stops....the cursor just flashes...

A few things cropped up. Actual drivers which turned out to not work. http://www.driverguide.com/uploads/uploads3/3160.html And using intel PC camera drivers changing a value in the .inf ...

I can access their website, but only the index page. Any attempt to go deeper (drivers/support/FAQ) and it comes back with the response: [downloads] Cannot Connect to Database! SQL Server ªº Microsoft OLE DB ´£¨ÑªÌ [DBMSSOCN]¤@¯ëºô¸ô¿ù»~¡C½Ð°Ñ¾\ºô¸ô¤å¥ó¡C Ive requested the drivers through...

Thanks for the advice guys, I think its sorted, The installation should have been totally automatic, and manfacturers website, said ALL W98's had drivers incorpirated - so support (and drivers) couldnt be found anywhere. Anyways, during trying to install the card again. I noticed that although...

Hi, Running w98 on p133 with 96mb ram got, 2d, 3d, sound, tv card, &modem on my pci's and isa's. The USB card is PCI And, it recognises it on boot up, gets to instaling the driver, and it then says it cant find openhci.sys on the CD, or in windows. The manafaturer says it should auto setup in...

Thanks Dakota81, Jakespear, I didnt really purchese it new, its a pull from another machine(unknown) Model of the DVD -all data I can find: Pioneer DVD-113 and another code- dvd-113ba the system Im trying to make it work on is: W98, Intel Celeron 433 on a PC100 mobo, with 256mb ram, 6gig HD...

Putting the CDrom and DVD (seperate drives)on secondary IDE - and, on bootup no devices at all are detected. But when I take the DVD out, its all fine. Even trying the DVD on both master and slave on the secondary IDE cable, changing jumpers - all configurations tried. Every time I put the DVD...

On my last reinstall of W98 on a 4.3gigHD ,p133 with 96MB EDO ram. I remember twaeking a memory setting to make applications boot from memory other than my EDO boards. You know, so that booting an app up dosnt freeze while loading for a few seconds? I cant for the life of me rember which...

Thanks for both the replies guys. Citrix, Start-up has been configured, Office2000 is on the machine(how did you know that?!;) And, about the swap file.- If I have 256MB and windows wants, say, 128MB. Do I optimise the memoryfor 128, or 256?(minSize0-Maxsize 32000 or min0-max64000) Id really...

Running W98se on a pc100 system board with Intel Celeron 433 processor & 24mb ram. Wanted to upgrade the ram(said would only take pc100 speed, or 66) But it was suggested to me to try out 256(2x128)mb of pc133 ram. Its in, and everything is a heck of a lot better than with the 24mb ram. The only...

....woooa, freaky ....not 1 min after posting the last mssg I switched the monitor back on (has been off all night) and all the magnetic disturbance has clean gone...just dissapeared ! cool :))))))

I know, I really need to kick myself in the head for this one, but... I was working on a PC, and put it aside for the moment....right next to a great big whopping speaker. (12") It was unfortunatly left there over night before I noticed. And when I booted it up this morning, all the colour...

mmmmm, thought so It aint my PC, but Ive got a PCI modem lying about, will try get that workin Cheers ed :)

ahh, right then...another thing to put in my solutions...i never knew that. The comp is now on a windoze update & one problem keeps bugging me. When the PC was given to me...(actually, Ill put this in a new post, but I might aswell put it here too) The modem very rarely got a dialtone, and when...

Thanks for the help guys, I think Ive got it sorted, pressing [esc] has got me into CMOS, and managed to change the boot up sequence (was IDE1 then CD) and now Is Floppy,CD,IDE1 Im in the process of formatting the drive & reinstalling windows as I type. Im just intertested as to what you said...