I've been confounded by this for quite some time, and I'm hoping somebody can offer some ideas.
I recently purchased a Toughbook 28 (1 GHz model) to replace my trusty 27. I've always preferred to dual-boot my laptops (98 & XP) because I occasionally use some old DOS and windows software that needs the older OS to run right. Anyway, I'm real close, but not quite there. It uses an Intel 82830 chipset, which has 98 support, and most of the drivers installed properly and do what they're supposed to. the areas that I'm having trouble with are the video driver, the fujitsu touchpad driver (which does work, and I can live with this problem), and a list of I/O ports under a "motherboard resources" heading. I originally had a problem with "PCI Standard PCI-to-PCI bridge" but I played around with manual settings and have since got it to report as working.
Anyway, the "motherboard resources" entry says "This device is not working properly because the BIOS in your computer is reporting the resources for the device incorrectly (code 9)". It is using automatic settings and nothing reports a conflict.
the touchpad driver for some reason has given itself three entries in device manager. One gives the same error message as above, the other two say that they're causing a resource conflict (probably because they're all trying to use the same IRQ!) If I delete these other two they just come back at next boot, so all I can do at this point is disable them. The mouse works fine however, so this is just an annoyance at this point.
The video driver is the real problem. I played around with it enough that is now says "Windows stopped responding while attempting to start this device, and therefore will never attempt to start this device again (code 11)". I'm using manual settings and have all resources showing no conflicts, but I still can't get the driver to work right. And now when I click on automatic settings, it just locks up!
Please let me know if there's any hope for this 98SE install. The only thing that's really a problem for me at this point is the video driver. if there's something anyone could think of to get it to behave I'd really appreciate it!
I recently purchased a Toughbook 28 (1 GHz model) to replace my trusty 27. I've always preferred to dual-boot my laptops (98 & XP) because I occasionally use some old DOS and windows software that needs the older OS to run right. Anyway, I'm real close, but not quite there. It uses an Intel 82830 chipset, which has 98 support, and most of the drivers installed properly and do what they're supposed to. the areas that I'm having trouble with are the video driver, the fujitsu touchpad driver (which does work, and I can live with this problem), and a list of I/O ports under a "motherboard resources" heading. I originally had a problem with "PCI Standard PCI-to-PCI bridge" but I played around with manual settings and have since got it to report as working.
Anyway, the "motherboard resources" entry says "This device is not working properly because the BIOS in your computer is reporting the resources for the device incorrectly (code 9)". It is using automatic settings and nothing reports a conflict.
the touchpad driver for some reason has given itself three entries in device manager. One gives the same error message as above, the other two say that they're causing a resource conflict (probably because they're all trying to use the same IRQ!) If I delete these other two they just come back at next boot, so all I can do at this point is disable them. The mouse works fine however, so this is just an annoyance at this point.
The video driver is the real problem. I played around with it enough that is now says "Windows stopped responding while attempting to start this device, and therefore will never attempt to start this device again (code 11)". I'm using manual settings and have all resources showing no conflicts, but I still can't get the driver to work right. And now when I click on automatic settings, it just locks up!
Please let me know if there's any hope for this 98SE install. The only thing that's really a problem for me at this point is the video driver. if there's something anyone could think of to get it to behave I'd really appreciate it!