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10.01 seems to work with Recompact and Irfanview together : http://tiido.rocketcat.info/Fileden/ThisVersionSeemsToWork.png ...?

10.01 seems to work with Regcompact and Irfanview... ? http://tiido.rocketcat.info/Fileden/ThisVersionSeemsToWork.png EDIT: Wrong topic, delete please

Such hangups make me think of bad sectors on the HDD. Install trial of HDD Sentinel and see if it tells you anything interesting. In DOS you can do SCANDISK C: /AUTOFIX /SURFACE (be prepared to many hours of "downtime")

I'll give Victoria a whirl when I get home, perhaps it can break through the SCSI barrier ! EDIT: After fiddling around with the settings in Victoria, I got it to give me SMART status from the drives behind the FT66. It is a pretty dangerous program, it messes with the drives directly and when it does not find what it expects you will freeze the machine.

I guess one of those smart programs put the vanilla file in the SYSTEM dir, and perhas that has caused some problems to me in the past, though in theory it shouldn't, but who knows...

I've deleted the file from SYSTEM, no consequences from that have happened. The OS is Win98SE, both machines got the SP3.x on them so that's where the ME file came from (I certainly did not put them there myself, and its the only update pack on the server machine).

I found 2x SMARTVSD.VXD : SYSTEM had 4.10.2222 version SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS had 4.90.3001 That above is definitely not good, I'll back up the vanilla file and put the newer files to both locations... I'll do a check on my server machine too. EDIT: server machine had one single file in IOSUBSYS, which is the 4.90.3001. I'll delete the file from SYSTEM on my main machine. EDIT2: speedfan no longer detects my 3rd IDE drive that's on secondary IDE channel on my main machine. Reboot fixed that ESDI_506.PDR was only in SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS, and it is the LBA48 patched version. EDIT3: HDD Sentinel DOS could read SMART data off the FastTrak66 drives, and both drives got few bad sectors on them ! (so much for using rescued trash drives haha). Rebooting to DOS every once in a while is not so bad, but the machine being a server, it should not go offline (much haha). Windows version did not detect the FT66 drives. Seems I will just periodically run the DOS program, or perhaps add to the system startup and make it send the output to some text file I can later on inspect... They're clever, they write to VRAM directly and aren't using DOS functions SmartMonTools did not work last time I tried (about 1 year ago) DiskCheckup detects only 2 drives too on my main machine, and it won't detect any SCSI or RAID drives, as the pages told.

I have done my testing on my main machine, which uses an industrial mobo which has not been recognized by any system info software I have used, neither on XP or 98. This may be part of the hard lockups. Speedfan used to lock up, but I contacted the guy and set him some debug logs, and seems things are now working. My other PC is fairly old and standard stuff, but I have not tried the software that refused to work on my main machine on that oldie. There is definitely no HW faults or conflicts, everything gets along and is rock solid. Few programs like everest show a lot of info on older versions, but newer versions which still run no longer show any raw details (such as PCI devices). That seems to be true for a lot of HW info tools. I guess they rely on some functionality not present in 9x (though in reality they could just probe the HW directly and gain more than OS stuff would...?)

I got that very same Fastcheck installed on my server machine and it does not tell me anything but "functional" and "critical". Temperaturs and reallocation parameters are what interest me most, and those are not revealed in Fastcheck... at least I have not found any way to if there's a way...

Wow, that much software ! I gave SpeedFan another shot right now and it actually worked. For some reason it locked up on my PIII and my current PIV. I guess the logs etc. I sent to the author finally got put into use I'll test out all the other programs too, thank you all DriveSmart and HDD Health and Drive Health could not detect any of the drives I got Astra32 froze the system, much like SpeedFan used to do DriveSitter, SpeedFan and DTemp all worked, but looks like none of them can do anything about "SCSI" drives. My main PC has all nice and dandy IDE HDD collection and few SATA drives over a RAID card (acting as SCSI). My server machine is running off RAID0 through FastTrak66, so looks like I won't be able to use none of the tools on it. (but these are IDE drives, not SATA, so perhaps there's a chance...?) Thänks again !

I've been trying to find something capable of reading out SMART data from a HDD on win98 but I have not found anything useful. Closest thing has been DOS version of HDD Sentinel but you really got to be in DOS to use it. I can only write DOS software myself so that would end up in same way as that program, it can only work when there's no windows in the way... Does anyone know something useful on this regard ?

A friend of mine made a patcher for those BIOSes with 32 and 64GB bug, I am using one such patched BIOS in my Pentium 225 ^^

That did not seem to work. The file version form driver CD is same as what I saw in this thread and it is nicely loaded but HID devices still refuse to work. Right now I moved the VIA card to my main PC which has NUSB36 installed and all HID devices aswell as everything else I found work without a hitch, even without adding the VIA file to the mix. Strange... But before going any further, I'll install uSP 3.6 on that machine, I'm still on 3.5. I am seeing one workaround though... there is Intel USB 1.1 integrated, I'll have to find a mobo header adaptor first to test this. I only needed USB 2.0 for storage, 1.1 is more than enough for input devices. I will report back later. EDIT: Good news, install of 3.6 fixed the problem, HID devices work now !

I discovered today that HID devices refuse to work on the Pentium. I tried couple of different mice (Microsoft Wireless mobile mouse 4000, IBM ScrollPoint III, Logitech RX300) and one game controller (Trust Vibraforce 850F) I had, all of which work on my other machine that uses some much older uSP (I think 3.3). "The NTKERN.VXD device loader(s) for this device could not load the device driver. (Code 2.)" The difference between the drivers on the 2 machines is that my other has 4.10.something driver file versions, but the Pentium has 5.0 and 5.1.something. There's 4 files listed HIDUSB.DLL, HIDPARSE.DLL, HIDCLASS.DLL and NTKERN.VXD. For testing I copied the older DLL from my older setup which resulted in no errors, but the devices did not work either. All imaginable USB sticks and memory card readers I got work flawlessly and so does the printer (HP Laserjet 2015) and the scanner (Mustek Bearpaw 2400TA+). I am now using VIA VT6212L based USB 2.0 card. Removal of all USB related devices in device manager in safe mode did no change anything. I started reviving my 486 and needed a PS/2 mouse so I took it from the Pentium as I can always use an USB one on it...but seems there's some complications. At least the 486 is häppy now

When I put that same HDD into a more powerful machine there won't be any problem with the SP3.CAB scanning speed, it is purely stuck at the speed of the Pentium1 machine. Increasing RAM would not change anything (already got 256MB on it). The file is probably bigger than it was in previous iterations of the SP and I did follow instructions, spot on. No erros, no problems, things just work.

One thing I really like about NUSB36 is that it is superfast and I no longer have to click next next next next to get driver installed. Just plug in some USB thing and it installs in couple of seconds ! NUSB36 also fixed a system hang problem that sometimes happened when I unplugged any of my USB memory sticks. (and now the slow SP3.CAB scanning on my Pentium1 machine is limited to networking, USB stuff moves super fast now thanks to NUSB36 install )

I would not say All, only few more expensive ones. The most typical speed is in 70MB/sec and less area. When you have not yet filled the on-drive buffer you can easily get a 100+ spike but for a sustained transfer the figure drops fast. Low LBA are mostly occupied by ginormous windows installs anyway No, but it can be possible as the card presents itself as a SCSI controller.

I got one giant IE6SP1 install from a modem software CD that also supports display support for asian languages aswell as the IMEs, progrably the same stuff as in the link in previous post. I always do my MSIE update from that, otherwise other browsers will show rectangles on japanese, chinese and such.

I am using a Silicon Image Sil3114 4x SATA PCI card and it works nicely with the 3x 250 and 1x 750GB drives I have connected to it. Before that I used to have card based on Ali chipset with 2x SATA and 1x IDE, but its SATA ports eventually died for some reason... And those increased speeds of SATA won't matter much, very few HDDs actually reach sustained speeds that are beyond 100MB/sec, and this also fits incely into SATA1. But this starts mattering when there's several copy operations happening...

I upgraded RAM on that computer of mine to 256MB. The board can cache only 64MB, but various benchmarks I did showed only a slight drop in perfomance, and I can live with that. It did not make driver installs that seek files inside SP3.CAB any faster though. That computer is in charge of this (hugely work in progress, I am slowly relearning all the HTML I have forgotten haha) : http://tiido.rocketcat.info I have put some links to important resources too

I have not been able to get the shutdown program appear again, and the USB card is not USB 2.0 but just 1.1 (but for some reason I recalled it being 2.0). Both USB and NIC are out of box supported on 98SE so no additional drivers were ever needed. I will be doing lot more HW tests on the machine in future, trying out different peripherals and such.

I have installed 3.5 on my P225 on a freshly installed windows and everything seemed nice and dandy until I started adding new HW (USB 2.0 card, NIC and some USB sticks). There are about 50 second pauses whenever there's "scanning" operation during driver installs. On USB it was quite annoying but nothing tremendous as it only appeared once. But then I popped in the NIC (about 15 minutes ago) and its move file, scanning (for about 50 seconds), move another file, scan more, repeat. There is no HDD activity during those scannings, and there's always SP3.CAB in source during that time. It makes me think that there is some searching inside the CAB which is CPU intensive. The P225 is not really powerful, and it takes time. I began experiencing one other oddity, which I think happened right after I installed my OPTi USB2.0 card. There's Fatal Exception 0B error happening every time I try to shut down and it is endless requiring me to hard reset or power off. I have not yet linked it to the USB card, once the NIC finishes I'll take out the USB card and see if the problem presists. Detailed config : Pentium1 MMX 233 @ 225MHz Intel 430TX chipset 64MB RAM (PC66) Promise Fasttrack66 with pair of 80GB drives in RAID1 Intel Pro100+ dual server NIC OPTi 82C621 USB 2.0 card Yamaha YMF719 sound card I will report back as soon as I find something more conclusive on the shut down problem. EDIT: After I disabled USB I no longer got the problem, but the problem no longer returned either when I enabled both onboard and OPTi USB (even in different combinations)... must have been a fluke or something. So the driver install slowness is only thing that haunts my (puny)setup

I want all my folders to have same kind of view settings and item sorting and so far it works nicely. Sometimes I get things reverting so I set my view settings again and do CTRL trick and things are back to normal again. As for OP, his care seems peculiar, and something I have not personally gone through so I cannot think of anything useful either... I just chimed in that CTRL trick has worked very nicely for me.

The CTRL trick works wonders here too

I have paritioned and resized them with Paragion Partition Manager 9. I created the FAT32 partition onto my 750GB HDD with it and it seems to work fine, however I cannot say anything about resizing, I don't have other big drives to experiment with right now...