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Thanks! And welcome onboard!

No. Then again, nobody that I know of have ever succeeded at it and released the resulting modded drivers.

In IE7 and Win XP, if I go to Favorites, then right-click on any link and select Properties, the Properties window duly opens, but it appears *underneath* the currently active window. This has been happening for some time to me, and today I noticed an error info window just behaved in the same way. Is there some setting I can change to correct this? I've already deactivated the "Prevent application from stealing focus" tweak on TweakUI, to no avail. Help me, please, I'm baffled!

Nah! They come with too much bloat (barbs and afterfeather). An fLited version might do, if you must really use them. But it's undeniable that *the never surpassed razor-edge technology* for WORM data storage remains clay tablets, which have 88 Mh MTBF: you burn them once and they outlast any other common media.

Try again... boot-land was down. And no, not necessarily.

Properly tweaked XP will boot on a laptop that does not natively support booting from USB via a "XP Kansas City Shuffle" (BTW, the name first appears on post #61), either with the loader image sitting on a bootable CD or a on a smalish old internal HDD quite fine and do marvels while installed to either a pendrive, a SDHC card or an external HDD. THE use I think 9x/ME excells at above all others is for maintenace, when things get really messed up. Now, the only real reason I stick to my 98SE is that I'm fond of it! I do like it! And I dual-boot it with XP when necessary. But, above all things I do backup, I do backup, I do backup, I do backup and then I do backup. Good old Ghost 2003 stand alone is easy to find used and costs very little on eBay and similar places, and nowadays there are free alternatives galore for one not wishing to spend any money, and DVD-Rs are quite cheap. If you have recent enough backups, you can trash your machine seven-ways-to-sunday many times every day and be back to working status quite fast.

Yes. I've just seen it. I'd never downloaded v. 6.1 of the demo RAM Limitation Patch, because I'm a licenced user, so I had only the full version. Now I've downloaded the demo to check it out. The problem is you need the /M option, but it has been removed from the demo: So, in fact, it seems to me that you'd need both the /A and the /M options to solve your problem.

That's my opinion too. Incidentally, I do like best my hacked user agent that says "Netscape 4.0 on CP/M-86 1.1"... too bad YouTube disagrees.

Yes. By using Grub4DOS.

I know that. In fact, Dietmar started it all, AFAIK. Is he still active, nowadays? I mean, over at 911CD? I never saw anything by him at boot-land, so I guess he's not a member there... Yea, well, that's precisely what I'm interested in achieving for Vista and/or Win 7... AFAIK, it's not been described, yet... At least not in so many words. Perhaps... but I think not quite. Imagine the target is an Asus EeePC 4G, and no other machine is available. For XP I had success in that situation only by using Emanuel's method. And that's why I see Emanuel's method as being different, albeit derived, from Dietmar's Tutorial 4. And I do think Dietmar's Tutorial 8 wouldn't be workable in unmodified form here also. Gotta try, of course! But I won't have such an EeePC here, at hand, for the next fortnight, at least. So, at present I'm reading and planing how to do it, when it arrives here...

Install to an external USB HDD. With XP, the only true alternative is (ngine.de's) Emanuel's method. All others, namely Dietmar's, Usboot, Tostis' and PWBoot, no matter whether intended for XP or Vista, rely on installing to an internal HDD or a VM, and modifying the finished installation. That I know can be done. I was trying to find out a way to do it before installing. And while I found the appropriate usb*.infs inside install.wim, I'm at a loss as to how to integrate the additional .inf necessary for it to work. You're not saying that in case I just drop USBBOOT.INF inside the inf directory in install.wim and repack the wim it'll work automagically, are you?

As far as I can tell, these files don't exist on Vista's install disc... Would someone be so kind as to enlighten me? TIA

Which cpu is it? Athlon Argon, Pluto or T-Bird? Is it oveclocked? And the FSB? Don't guess, in doubt, run CPU-Z to establish this info. And I do think eidenk is right: the ram is my first candidate culprit. Not the amount of it... I'm writing this in a 3 GiB Win 98SE system. But plain old bad RAM. Lets get that out of the way, so: 1) Run a 24 h straight memtest86+ if that results OK, then, 2) Run a 24 h straight Windows Memory Diagnostic, set to the extended test suite. If the machine passes both, then I'll be satisfied it's not the RAM. Next it'll be time to stress the CPU, but first things first, OK?

And post your system's specs to give us a start point on which to think.

The amount of RAM is OK for 98SE. You gave too little info to go on. Do you get a BSOD? What does it say? Or does it just freeze or crash? Or do you get an "Windows Protection Error"?

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Read this too: http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html... May be of help.

There is valuable info and discussion on bearwindows driver here also: Asus Eee PC and Windows 9x.

The latest version of rloew's patch has the /M switch which caters for the 512 MiB issue specifically. However, you should download the free demo, install it, and test with your system, before anything. If you determine it does work in your case, then you begin considering acquiring it. In case it does not work, you may still contact rloew, because he certainly will be interested in your case and may yet devise a next version that works. So I think you run no risk at all. If you did not buy the card yet, I'd advise you to wait for Songa's report about his own experience, however.

Read this topic. cooksy has 7900 and 7950 256 MiB video cards working (see also the 9x/ME with > 1 GiB thread, post #2, link in my signature). Lecco also has a 7900GS. rloew has the solution for the 512 MiB problem.

While it certainly is possible the NB is receiving a higher voltage than reported by the BIOS, it probably isn't so high as to damage the NB right away, or you'd have a very different story to report. So, if, and only if, the motherboard is performing normally otherwise, I'd recommend you give your NB a good fan-cooled heatsink, Noctua and Zalman being the best I know of, so as to do away with the excess heat, and don't worry about it anymore. I do also think it'll be extemely difficult to RMA it for this reason. YMMV, of course.

Don't doublepost, please! Duplicate thread removed and ongoing thread moved to appropriate place.

I bet eidenk is right. rloew had success with a 6200. Follow my advice in this post. Good luck.

Hi, Multibooter! Glad to have you around again, you have been missed! Would you please elaborate a litle more on the way to install v.10 under 98SE?

True but it is most often better than nothing. I feel the same way. And, most often, with some editing effort, one can render the translation in good English. Online machine translators opened to me a window into many interesting Russian and Chinese pages, that I'd otherwise be unable to read.