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Does the WinME virtual memory manager work with Win98SE? If so, I think this would be the only way to get 2 GB working, otherwise the most is a little more than 1.5 GB.

My Win98SE system has 512MB total RAM, with 384MB used as an XMSDSK RAM drive. After hours of image editing, browsing, emailing and whatnot, I closed all the apps apart from one Explorer window and then started a DOS box test. I ran out of memory on the 84th MS-DOS Prompt. What am I doing wrong?

Problem is that Intel has stopped support for Windows 98 and it is not possible to use drivers from Intel site for installation. Simple speaking Intel site is very bad for drivers for "our" OS. I think that drivers from SiS site or from site which has produced similar chipset before are much better for download. You were right, Intel driver is no good but I have audio working on D201GLY2! The ECS driver you provided a link to does not work as it is. However, if you add the following line %*WDM_AC97AUD.DeviceDesc%=WDM_M188, pci\ven_1039&dev_7012&subsys_D61F8086 to [AnalogDevices] section in smwdmSIS.inf file in 9x_Me\SMAXWDM\SE folder, then audio driver installs fine. Many thanks! _______________________ I found a USB 2.0 driver that installs OK, so everything looks like it is working with Win98SE & D201GLY2, except for Motherboard resources conflict for ACPI. (USB not tested at all yet,though.) System Properties pics: Device Manager (1/4) Device Manager (2/4) Device Manager (3/4) Device Manager (4/4)

XMSDSK is a DOS utility. There is no 32-bit mode version of it, so it always runs in MS-DOS compatibility mode only. However, it is still very worthwhile putting as much as possible of Windows on an XMSDSK RAM drive. HIMEM.SYS is loaded by default by Windows, so an entry in Config.sys is not compulsory. It is a good idea, though, to copy HIMEM.SYS to C:\ and have DEVICE=C:\HIMEM.SYS in Config.sys. The same applies to IFSHLP.SYS and SETVER.EXE. You must do this if you want to run Windows on a RAM drive, because the RAM drive and its Windows directory will not exist when Config.sys is processed. EMM386.EXE is not needed.

I could provide info tomorrow about the following: 1. Swap file on a RAM drive (dead easy) 2. Registry on a RAM drive, rest of Windows on a hard drive (easy) 3. All of Windows including registry on a RAM drive (also easy)

This message was written using Win98SE on an Intel D201GLY2 motherboard. The audio driver on the Intel D201GLY2 download webpage includes an X86 folder. The files are almost identical to those in the link you posted. Running Setup.exe from this folder installs Soundmax with no error messages. When Windows re-boots the audio device is found, but I cannot locate a driver that works. Other Soundmax drivers that I've downloaded have the same problem. Ideas anybody?

I think these are the SiS drivers needed: IDE - v2.04a LAN - v1.19 SATA & RAID - v4.11a UniVGA3 graphics - v3.83 But also need an AD1888/SoundMax driver from somewhere?

What about the cheap Intel D201GLY? I think there are Win98 drivers for the northbridge, southbridge, VGA, LAN and audio (non-Intel chipsets), but I don't know whether they work for sure. More details here: http://www.logicsupply.com/products/d201gly2 http://download.intel.com/products/motherb...201GLY2/tps.pdf

I think Win98SE + monster RAM drive (using most of the 1 GB system RAM) is the best option here and I know it's not difficult to setup. You may want to think about how noisy the new systems will be compared to the old ones and look at measures to make them quieter. See http://www.silentpcreview.com

Would you like the new system to really fly? 1GB is an enormous amount of RAM for Win98 and far more than it knows how to deal with properly, in my experience. I suggest that you experiment with a monster RAM drive (768+MB) and use it for temp files, swap file, all of Win98 and as much of the CAD software as possible (the last two on compressed drives) and omit the second hard drive. Running Win98 and apps entirely from RAM is amazing and you do not need anything like 1GB to give it a try.

Free Riva FLV Player works fine on my PIII-800Mhz, Win98SE system.

Hi everybody! My first post. As mentioned already, scanreg /backup can backup other files in the same rb???.cab file as system.dat, user.dat, win.ini and system.ini, as specified in scanreg.ini. However, scanreg /restore does not restore these extra files, so use extract instead. The info about scanreg.ini settings is not very detailed. Here's a few things I've discovered in Win98SE which might be useful: * Changing BackupDirectory to a root directory seems not to work, i.e. a folder name must be specified too. * Wildcards cannot be used in filenames, unfortunately. * Folder names can be used at the front of filenames, so that files from anywhere on a drive can be backed up if folder code 30 or 31 is used, e.g. Files=30,Photos\Dogs\Collie.jpg will backup x:\Photos\Dogs\Collie.jpg. * Do not put \ at the beginning of filenames because this can mess up extraction. * Files on a different drive than the Windows drive can be backed up! Here's how to do it. In the registry, modify the BootHost drive letter in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup, then use Files=31,.... You'll probably need to reboot for the change to take effect.