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Win98 was used without a license on that computer. We found another machine, which happened to have a proof of purchase sticker on its case.

If you don't have a working system at the moment, you just install both OSes. If you already have WinXP installed and want to keep, it's more complicated. I find it best if both systems ar located on a single FAT32 partition. You will have to use nLite to modify installation path of Windows XP. First install Windows 98 to \WINDOWS and then Windows XP to say \WINNT. WinXP will see that the system contains DOS and will dump the current boot sector to a file called bootsect.dos. Later you can add an entry to boot.ini to use this file for loading Windows 98.

Things like this are usually done from a boot CD, so that nothing gets installed on any of the partitions in question. It's not morally worse to use an illegal boot disk compared to installing a trial version for the sole purpose of taking advantage of it (instead of evaluation). Cloning become easier if you have assigned individual partitions for your SYSTEM, PROGRAMS and FILES. In this case you clone only the OS (depending on if mobo is the same), only applications or opt to reoganize USER FILES by copying them manually. lol

The point was to have 2 systems working parallel, one clean and another possibly misconfigured. You could tell if complete reinstall would solve the problem. You don't need another partition AFAIK. As I said, from my experience WinXP and Win2k would create directories WINNT.1 and WINNT.2 if directed to the same existing directory WINNT.

To determine if the problem is in software configuration or network adapter itself you can install another clean copy of WinXP with only the network driver. Windows should install in different directory called WINDOWS.1 and you may switch back to the previous OS at anytime.

If they are not your computers, autorun might have been (should be) disabled for security.

Removed DHCP client might indeed be the cause, athough DHCP as such is not needed on the network. I will test this once I get the opportunity. Found out also about /SOS switch. It might provide some info on which specific file XP hangs. Minlogon is good since I don't approve multiuser PCs (personal computers). But this boot delay cannot be influenced by winlogon, as it happens way before logging on.

Yes, this pack is distrubuted along the driver. By installing it I got an older ADI (on i915) recognized under XP without an additional driver. But this is not possible with Realtek. One of the reasons for pushing the UAA (apart from possible user lock-in to WinNT and DRM) was to get rid of separate device drivers for every device. The crap is contained inside the driver itself. Core SYS file alone is 4 Megs. Maybe there is a way to modify the UAA so that it accepts ALC8xx. Basic audio output is enough. An enthusiast or audio expert would need proper soundcard anyway.

Is it possible to make Realtek onboard sound on HDA bus just work without installing the whole "HD" driver? Version R1.84 is 15 Megs compressed. I've come across integrated codecs by ADI and STAC. Both installed nicely using 500k and 100k drivers.

Load the system from a boot CD and have all files accessible. In cases like this when you need to patch WinXP it's handy to have a second os like Win98 installed. But boot disks work fine too.

I have repeatedly lited this install. First I made one with all basic stuff that I never need removed (like System File Protection), classic icons added and product key entered. That's why there are so many inis. If this problem is not well known then I guess I just keep observing.

There is PCI-E. A different problem is that new video adapters no longer work on Win98.

Thank you for the replies. The problem is that somebody else is working at the computer and she only notifies me when something is going wrong. Anyway the entire computer will soon be replaced for licensing reasons.

What disks? In the most popular "zeraw" s’neriH Boot CD only selected applications can work with NTFS, or require loading of additional possibly unstable modules. For example Partition Cloning. With NTFS you cannot use PowerQuest Drive Image and are forced to use Acronis, files of wich cannot be easily browsed offline. How can a file system gain "much more speed" is beyond me, maybe a little.

I'm nLiting XP systems since the first time I bought a computer where Win98 wouldn't run, and installed full XP only two times in my life. All went well. However recently my lite installations started showing a problem: lengthy boot. As soon as the XP logo appears, progress bar moves nine or ten times while the HDD shows no activity. Does not seem much, but I expect better from a "lite" sytem. Looks like it's waiting for something. I experienced this before with Win98 trying to acquire a DHCP lease where there was none. The XP systems have addresses assigned by me and the DHCP client is removed. Previously on the given system progress bar went only 1/3 of total length before the XP logo disappeared. This effect is present on different computers with different manually created installations of WinXP Pro SP1. Here's one example of Last Session. What could be the cause?

It might be possible to transfer an installed Vista to a FAT32 disk.

There is problem with licensing Windows 98 today, which is important in a corporate environment. M$ doesn't want you to use older software and cuts you out with selling OEM lincenses with no 'rights' for 'downgrading'. It's true even for Win2k, which I would otherwise always install in order to get rid of useless XP's eye candy. Here I needed Win98 for an old program with an odd multi-codepage standard. I had to physically exchange computers only because the other machine happened to have a Win98 hologram on its case.

The Windows Appaearance has one ugly bug at least in Windows 98, 2000 and XP: the weight of typeface used in menus. Normal menus are drawn with weight 400/0x0190 (Regular), for default item Windows adds 200 weight units. This produces 600 for which there is no corresponding font. An automatically calculated semi-bold text is used instead. To get nice 700 (Bold) weight for default menu items, one can use 500/0x01F4 for regular text. Here is the Windows 2000 color scheme modified for proper Bold: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Appearance\Schemes] "Windows 2000"=hex:04,00,00,00,1f,30,8c,d3,01,00,00,00,10,00,00,00,10,00,00,00,\ 12,00,00,00,12,00,00,00,f5,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,bc,\ 02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,54,61,68,6f,6d,61,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,0c,00,00,00,0f,00,00,\ 00,f5,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,bc,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,54,61,68,6f,6d,61,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,12,00,00,00,12,00,00,00,f5,ff,ff,ff,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,f4,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,54,61,68,\ 6f,6d,61,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,f5,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,54,61,68,6f,6d,61,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,f5,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,54,61,68,6f,6d,61,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,f5,\ ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,f4,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,54,61,68,6f,6d,61,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,d4,d0,c8,00,3a,6e,a5,00,0a,24,6a,00,80,80,80,00,\ d4,d0,c8,00,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,00,d4,\ d0,c8,00,d4,d0,c8,00,80,80,80,00,0a,24,6a,00,ff,ff,ff,00,d4,d0,c8,00,80,80,\ 80,00,80,80,80,00,00,00,00,00,d4,d0,c8,00,ff,ff,ff,00,40,40,40,00,d4,d0,c8,\ 00,00,00,00,00,ff,ff,e1,00,b5,b5,b5,00,00,00,ff,00,a6,ca,f0,00,c0,c0,c0,00 Normal: Fixed:

It's the Flash memory that has limited number of writes. So placing a virtual memory file there would be the stupidest thing. What's exactly the speed of an IDE CompactFlash (with DMA and all)? And seek times? I'm interested in this solution myself for a silent computer, not for performance cos I'm sure theres little of it.

Latest supported Radeon is RV410 (X700). I can personally assure that RV370 is working beautifully (X300, X550, X1050).

I have it disabled since the first occurence of the problem.

I have a Win98SE and a WinXP machine. Both are connected to a 1280*1024 LCD panel via a cheap Roline KVM switch. The problem is that occasionaly the Win98 computer reverts to 640*480 or 1024*768 resolution as a failsafe when it can't see the monitor. The XP computer never does that. The problem machine has integrated SiS M650 video (BIOS 1.07.00.6325). I have tried to change the monitor "driver" to VGA 1280*1024 but the problem is still present. Could an upgrade of the switch or video adapter resolve this? What KVM feature I need to look for?

Soundcards M-Audio Audiophile 24/96. - Appears to work even better than in NT5. Yamaha 724. - An old PCI card. Also provides basic 8-bit sound, OPL-3 FM, XG Level 1 synthesis to DOS programs. OPL-3 also works in pure DOS. Printers Lexmark E352dn/E250dn Laser Printer. - TCP/IP printing requires additional driver on Win98. Network interfaces Marvell Yukon 88E8001. Hard disks VIA VT6410 RAID controller, available on GA-8I915P Duo for example. It has driver for Win98 and can work with hard disks exceeding 127 GB independently of ESDi_506. Perhaps other VIA RAID controllers are also working. What drivers does one need to properly install Win98 on the new Intel chipsets you have listed here?

How about if you remove the CD after the first restart? You will later need to insert it again. Just eject the tray when BIOS POST appears so that the system does not boot from the CD.

That would still mean that the Ethernet connection is becoming broken every once in a while.