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One can make a case even for CP/M-86, if one tries hard and long enough... In any case, besides the posts by LoneCrusader, who's participaring in this thread already, you should search for and read patiently most posts by BenoitRen, to give yourself a good picture of it.

May I suggest we wait for Hoko to get back to us before going any further?

Moreover, one machine at a time. You sure'll learn a lot from installing 98 on the 2001 laptop, while keeping the XP. To do it well and right, it may take several days, with lots of posts from you and responses from us. To do both machines at once is to court disaster. All you'll accomplish is to hose both, IMO. And there's some reading to be done, before even beginning, like what are and how to create and redeploy images.

You sure can, and can do it while preserving the XP on it, too, even if that requires some more effort and patience. Then again, lots of patience are required to work properly with 9x/ME, in any case. Slow does it. Good luck!

Can you please elaborate. Been looking for info on it for a long time.

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Let's wait for Tommy's reply. But if he'll be going to ViArena, he should also grab the Via Hyperion v. 4.56v chipset driverset (the Hyperion aka "4x1"), which is much better than any later version, for the via Kxx00 chipsets.

Welcome onboard, submix8c! And, yes, of course your board (GA-7VM400M-RZ) is much nearer his in hardware. I'm confident we'll be able to find out what's wrong here, with your help. Tommy's GA-7VM400M is a KM400 board using a VIA 8235 southbridge. It should be able to go up to 2 GiB RAM, BTW. My, board, on the other hand, is an A7V600-X, which uses a KT600 with a VIA 8237A southbridge, which currently has 3 2 GiB RAM, the maximum it can take. And, as you can see in the list, I still use the: "Video card: MSI MS-8817 V1 nVidia GeForce2 MX400 PRO32S (32 MiB; AGP 4x)" Removing ACPI is reversible, despite what may appear, so I do think It's a good proceure to follow, at this point, and relatively fast, although the description of it sure is long-winded. And since Tommy confirmed the issue already existed before the nVidia card was added, I consider it excluded as the putative source for the "Windows Protection Error".

I agree. I change my advice to v 1.32.1, then.

By following CharlotteTheHarlot's links (nice! ), here's it: Trigem Florida-TG/TGA Mainboard @LoneCrusader: if you scroll down the link I gave for 1.47, you'll find most other older versions there, including, of course, 1.32.1... If you have some spare time, you might find out which actually is the last version that supports 95c. I know 1.47 works OK with 98SE, because it's the one I use in it, although 1.53 is said to be the last one for 98 (or 9x/ME ?).

Run CPU-Z v. 1.53 (or v. 1.47), and let's see what it says.

I meant no disrespect, of course. But blotched it was, already. Notice, please, I didn't say "botched", nor did I mean to. To me, once something isn't quite right (even if I see it just when I shut down) I stop to find out why. By doing so, my installs take much longer. But I get to systems that last. The last time I actually installed Win 98SE on my main machine was 2001-11-13 11:48 PM, and it's still alive and kicking! Of course I use an image library to move back and forth on time when installing and /or debugging most issues in it. But that's beside the point, since you tell us yours is a pretty recent install. And your board uses a KM400 chipset. Mine is a KT600, so it's just the next generation (but a KT has no onboard video, while a KM has a VIA, not S3, inside). OK, on the basis of your reply, I change my bet. What you need to do is to remove altogether the ACPI (and most of the APM, too).

Wait a sec! Are you *p*o*s*i*t*i*v*e* the problem existed before adding the nVidia Card? You sure? And, if so, why didn't you post about it right away, instead of going on with the install? It was blotched already! Do reply asap. Until then, put on hold everything I said below this line, OK? Issue may be due to a totally different cause, let's see. ================================================================================== Driver, I bet square on the video driver! None whatsoever, at least directly. Myself, I don't see how it'd be of any help. Try the 77.72. Multibooter says it's the latest bug-free driver for 9x/ME. And he uses it with a nVIDIA 7800 GS OC (256 MiB; AGP 8x). If you have time, read the full NVidia drivers 82.69, suddenly!. I'm sure you'll find it most instructive. The 81.98 is also worth a try. Neither it nor the 77.72 support nVidia GeForce 6xxx, but that's solvable by trivially editing the .inf Just by comparing the .inf of either with that from the unnoficial 82.69 will provide you the necessary strings to add. Find them here or here.

To cover his tracks? Reboot with a Linux live CD: thence you'll be able to view, and -- even better -- delete things galore.

Way to go! You and Joakim both do rock!

You sure should, since VMWare 6.5+ working OK on Intels and not even 9.0.2 doing it right on AMDs clearly points out to something being *very* wrong. Moreover you can describe them in fine details how can they reproduce the issue, so that I bet they will provide a solution to it, probably faster than we may imagine. Good luck and keep us posted!

Why? In less than 3h? It might very well take a full week before you got a reply. These are voluntary technology forums, not a fast, general use, helpdesk. So that is precisely as it should be.

Since it's AMD only, I've updated the title accordingly. While things sure do seem to have improved on VMWare v. 9.0, by the way you describe 'em, at the end of the day it remains unusable.

I bet on the video driver... see the threads pointed to by my summary thread pointed to in the important stickified threads sticky index.

The POSReady 2009 I think'll get updates till 2019, or am I mistaken? Obviously, MS may still release surprise security fixes for really dire scenarios, up to then...

Never seen anything like that. Are you really positive you've got the right BIOS and Flash tool? Please double check what you've done... and *don't* flash the BIOS for the time being.

Welcome to MSFN! Way to go!

If it's activated for you (so it'll appear by default when you click on the compose button), simply by filling the indicated field and selecting invitation or copy below it.

That's my take on it, too! Don't worry... be happy. It simply cannot be killed anymore.