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I set ACPIOption = 2, Windows reinstalled all mobo "devices" during 3 reboots. ACPI Power Button is no longer listed as system device and the system timer is alone on IRQ 0. I hope this would fix my issue..

This motherboard works under Windows 98SE: Gigabyte 8I915P Duo, as another person at this forum wrote 915P looks like the best chipset for Win98 compatibility. However, I'm not sure if you'll find these mobos on sale. I have tested three 250 GB hdd's connected to the onboard RAID controller. They worked properly. It didn't matter whether the system's esdi506.pdr had or had not HDD size-related bugs. I've had bad experience with the stability and performance of onboard sound driver on this i915 board and another i965. I don't think it's a good choice if you actually need audio.

modicr :: I'm gonna try to switch the system to APM upon next reboot (running XP at the moment) and see if there will be any changes. I believe ATi videocards up to X850 work properly. At least the latest Catalyst v6.2 reports support.

Thank you for your replies. My apologies for posting in the wrong forum. I'm gonna check out CDImage now.

I have a set of files with many duplicates. It is not an option to delete them. Is there a file archiver that would gather information about the dupes and efficiently pack them. This could be accomplished by a generic compressor with extremely large dictionary (~ 48 MB or so), but the system requirements for shuch an operation, including later decompression, would be inadequate. Maybe disc image with multiple references to the same data?

None of them. It is yet to be seen if any of these two recordable medias will become affordable (and reliable). Right now my choice is Verbatim DVD+R. (Movies? What movies?)

Reinstalled the my previous Win98 system 5 years ago. My current WinXP system has worked for a year now and I'm not going to reinstall it anytime soon. It's a completely different case with other peoples computers. Thank god none of them happened to have RAID on board. Voted for 1 year because I do not use imaging software, only backup individual files on DVDs. I feel there is no need to restore an entire partition. My backup also allows to restore the OS on another machine which happen to have the same motherboard.

Thank you for the explanations, Spooky and Fizban2. It makes sense. I liked the agent characters in Office 2000 (and 97) ... until I had viewed all available animations and discovered how limited their intelligence was.

The question was not about how to accomplish removal of useless components (Nuhi is already working hard on it), but why these features exist in the system in the first place. Does Microsoft see every legal user as a beginner who needs to be directed to the Search button by an animated dog? Windows 2000 is a good clean operating system, but the time will come when it can no longer be run on current h/w (as it has more or less happened with Win98).

Thank you, Stranger. I have recenltly found Dragon's Unpacker (by searching for "ADF MP3 encryption" in google). Very useful and clean proggie. The same goes for Cab viewer. I will investigate Game Extractor, it looks promising. However most of them are applications of their own and wouldn't benefit from a frontend – Universal Extractor.

Recent M$ operating systems – XP and Vista – have a mind on their own. The more recent the version, the "smarter" OS has become. It tries to protect you from viruses, hackers, malware but in the end (at least in my case) it protects you from your own computer by setting various restrictions on what you are allowed to do. You need to search the Internet for various tweaks in order to reclaim control. There are at least 6 different "editions" of Vista. Why coldn't Micro$oft create an Expert Edition which had the really unprofessional eye-candy, reminders about security, disk space, digitial signatures, etc removed? Thank god there is nLite.. But could the company really blame a pirate who's distributing this striped down version if there is no legal alternative to obtain one?

If the only hard drives you have are connected via a RAID controller then I assume Vista will be unable to search them [in DOS mode].

http://www.elitegrounds.net/trainermakers/...erstudio1.6.zip Here is an old Wise installer for Windows 3.11 that PEiD fails to detect (because it's not a PE). I successfully unpacked it with HWUN.

Can i5comp extract InstallShield 7 cabinets? Phew, after a few hours I have at last successfully extracted the archive using ISCAB 12. The cabinet was "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" installer on 2 CDs. At first I had overlooked a small dummy cabinet data3.cab on the second disc, which obviously contained the #1418 file. There were also uncompressed files on the disc, and when listing the contents uising -l iscab did not differentiate between uncompressed files and files packed in CABs. So, those files also had to be copied over (first I tried extracting in the current directory, overwriting those files with themselves). Iscab created all required subdirectories.

Thank you both Nitro and Stranger for your extraction tools. Much appreciated. Can you please tell me how to use the cracked InstallShield Cabinet Viewer 12? I tried to unpack an IS7 cabinet (split into data1.hdr, data1.cab, data2.cab), which is unsupported by i6comp, using ISCAB and IsCabVu. Both applications parsed the header file without errors. Finally IsCabVu allows me to extract files one by one. The problem is that there are over 1000 files packed. To do unpacking in batch mode I created an ini file using command. iscab data1.cab -i"iscab.ini" -l Then modified the ini file to include target path according to this helpfile. Upon running the extraction process iscab tells me it can't find a file #1418. There is no file with such index in the cabinets and my ini file. iscab.exe data1.cab -i"iscab.ini" -x To exclude the possibility with mismatched seachpaths, I have finally copied the installer, iscab12 and the ini file in the same directory.

You might need to switch back to compact "small icons" mode when using special 'upgraded' Open dialogs, which can't be enlarged. (The enchanced Open/Save may lose functionality if the dialog in COMDLG32 is replaced with a larger one.)

I can't believe you care so much about licenses and pay so little attention to common sense. Would you stop eating and sleeping if you had accidentally accepted a specially crafted 30 kB long license (that nobody reads) forbiding you to do it?

There is an application called PDDLGHLP that when run on system startup will stay resident and preserve the look (and size) of the Open dialog. This program was part of PowerDesk Utilities 98 (?). If you want it, I can send it to you.

Thank you for your reply. I think that I got very lucky because only USB 2.0 is left without the driver under Win98SE. Here is my experience with my Intel 915P motherboard (Gigabyte). I have tried Geforce 6200 PCI-E and its driver was very unstable under Win98. nVidia's tech support (after complaining a bit that they do not make video boards) told me to stop using this obsolete operating system. However, two different models of ATI X550 do work properly. They have limited DOS memory to maybe a megabyte or smth, but it is OK. The driver for Realtek ALC codec (integrated) is not stable, but I don't care as I have a good sound card (Yamaha YMF724). Yay, DOS games! VIA VT6410 SATA/RAID controller works properly. I have tried only P-ATA devices (three 250 GB hard drives are connected). Operating of RAID-ed drives in DOS mode is possible, but if writing is attempted it may corrupt the entire disk. Marvell network interface works properly (except, read below). This Windows 98 machine can not operate for more than 4 or 5 days because of some timer problem I have not been able to resolve so far. The system clock slows down, then there appear timing problems in MIDI hardware, then network card (Marvell) wouldn't accept incoming connections, regular digital audio wouldn't play (PCI board). I suspect it's because system timer shares IRQ 0 with an IDE controller, but I'm not sure. There are no observable problems running Win98 for shorter periods of time, like one day.

Hello, Petr. Have you managed to install USB 2.0 support on your i915 chipset? I have tried different OrangeWare drivers with no luck, and http://www.winpack.org/petr/usb2-ow-2.04.zip is no longer available. Thanks.