LoneCrusader

Eh.. what's so great about it? DFI Lanparty 875P-T is the king of the 8xx chipset + LGA775 boards.

You seem to have a very strange set of problems with your various experiments. Being a frequent user and tester of most of rloew's programs and patches I can say I have never yet seen any issues like the problems you are having. I believe most of your problem comes from trying to move around previously installed copies of the OS. I know it is annoying to have to re-setup updates and programs for each new machine, but this is questionable at best to start with. Any time you do this you should at LEAST go into the Device Manager in Safe Mode and remove any and all devices BEFORE even attempting to boot the system on different hardware. Failure to do this is asking for trouble. Better yet, you should do that step and then manually go into the ENUM key in the registry and manually delete anything that is left under \PCI, \MF, \USB, \USBSTOR, and possibly others (do not remove \ROOT) after the Device Manager cleanup. You should try clean installs using only the base system + rloew's patches and see if you have any issues under that configuration before you try moving a pre-installed system that exponentially multiplies the variables for failure. If it works in the clean setup and doesn't in your moved setup, then the problem lies somewhere in your pre-installed environment.

What version? On what hardware? I'm debugging a driver, or rather tracing what a couple of specific 2K-compatible drivers do when running in their normal environment under 2K and comparing it to how the driver operates under 98SE. (we are trying to backport two 2K-compatible drivers to 98SE) So I need SoftICE to be working under 2K SP4 on the same machine where I already have it working under 98SE to compare.

Hello my Win2K friends! Has anyone here been able to successfully run SoftICE under Windows 2000 SP4? If so, what version of SoftICE did you use? did you have any updates for that version installed? any special registry settings or other settings you had to modify? any updates beyond SP4 installed on your Win2K? what hardware did you run it on? what specific video card and what video driver version did you use? I've combed the Internet and tried just about everything that I've been able to dig up but SoftICE keeps crashing out when the machine boots and causes the machine to restart in an infinite loop. Thanks in advance!

I'm a sponsor. And as you can see it's disabled anyway.

Really now? Me too.

Using PaleMoon 24.7.2 under XP, 1280x960 resolution I see some overlap issues with formatting. This goes away if I use Firefox 52.2.0esr. Hopefully a simple problem.

Since answers don't seem to be forthcoming about what, if anything, can be done to at least alleviate the immediate crisis long enough to archive everything I suggest we all get busy with HTTrack and try to archive as much as possible. I don't know if the entire site can be somehow indexed by the Wayback Machine but we'd better not depend on it to properly handle multi-page forum indices and threads. EDIT: Pick a specific forum (copy the link into the specific forum) to try to archive with HTTrack if you attempt it. If you try to do the entire forum at once it may never finish. I backed up a site a few years ago and HTTrack literally ran for a month straight.

I never knew that. I wish this had been made more widely known... maybe we could have come up with a salvage plan at least.

I remember that thread... and I understand completely how hard it is to find time for online things and for real life as well. Kudos to xper for keeping it up as long as he has. Has the possibility of someone else taking over the forum ever been considered?

Anyone have any idea what the problem is? If it's financial I'm sure several of us could step up and help. I'll help as much as I can... This is a disaster equivalent to losing the Great Library of Alexandria - information exists here that exists nowhere else.

Good point about the BIOS. I recently obtained a Gigabyte X99 motherboard and it was using the first BIOS version and was limited to 1873MB for 32-bit. Flashing to the current version allows 2910MB. I actually just got through emailing their tech support requesting better optimization of the BIOS MMIO for 32-bit. Probably won't get anywhere but it doesn't hurt to ask.

I agree that it's not "mature" in the sense that it has not been widely tested. However I believe there exists a slight bias of opinion around here against the PAE solution. I guess it all comes down to which reverse engineer's knowledge, information, and experiments you put the most faith in. Most of the discussion revolves around attempting to use the SP1 version of HAL.DLL because something was supposedly "removed" from it. I discussed this issue with rloew last year and he ran some tests and examined the different HAL's. He said there was nothing of interest in the SP1 HAL. This, and seeing the patch work is good enough for me. If I weren't already running XP x64 when I need it instead of XP x86 I would probably be using it.

I'm not sure what all is in Dibya's patch, but I have used the XP PAE patch in an experiment and it works... mind you it wasn't tested extensively though. You need two patched files (NTOSKRNL.EXE and HAL.DLL [the correct ones for your setup; these are chosen during installation]) and a Server 2003 version of USBPORT.SYS. Other drivers out there may suffer from the dreaded "bugs" that everyone seems to be afraid of, but USBPORT.SYS is the only one known for sure to be a problem at this time.

Interesting. That step was the last one I tried before the plugin was successfully installed. I had restarted Firefox several times prior to this but it refused to finish until after I had changed the URL and forced it to manually check for updates. Looks like that particular change may not be the trigger, but I didn't do anything else. Maybe one must do some kind of ritual in order to be granted success...

Yes. I read that, and I did that. And I still had to make it manually connect to the URL and check for update before it would finish.

I just went through this same problem on a machine I built for someone else. I kept getting the "will be installed shortly" message until I manually set 51.0 in the %VERSION% section of the update URL and manually forced it to check for updates. Then it magically decided that it would work...

Welcome to MSFN The answer to your question largely depends on personal preferences. You will need to read up some on each of these packages and decide which works best for you. You may have to experiment a few times to get the right combination for you. A few general guidelines: 1) don't mix multiple update packs, i.e. Autopatcher and U98SESP3 or WUPG98 for example. 2) install your chosen "update" pack first before installing RP9, 98SE2ME, 98MP10, etc. 3) always install KernelEx LAST after all other updates and addons

I suppose I could agree with all of those reasons. There just aren't enough so-called "modern features" in a newer OS interest me (although I have been forced as of late to use XP or Linux for anything online). Threads like this often invite flame wars and lots of senseless heated debate with unsubstantiated opinions flying everywhere. I hope this does not happen again... Let's keep this thread respectful and on topic folks. If you are not really a 9x user (and just decide to drop in here to troll) then obviously the subject of this topic will not apply to you, so consider yourself warned.

The MSI driver listing page seems to be broken for the 98SE audio driver. However if you change the OS to Windows 2000 it shows a download that is supposedly for 98SE as well. Try this. If it doesn't work, you can try obtaining the latest Realtek AC'97 driver directly from Realtek's website.

I don't login to watch videos. Also this happens across multiple machines and other browsers... looks like Commodore has found the culprit, which seems to confirm the discussion I read on the Firefox addon page. Now we just need an "addon" that will make this change automatically...

I'm unable to load Flash on YouTube under XP/PaleMoon 24.7.2 now as well for the past two days. I came back to this thread to get the above mentioned Firefox addon and went to its page. There is some discussion in the comments there; someone claims that YouTube has disabled Flash. I didn't investigate further yet.

Intel Ethernet Connection Driver for Windows 98SE

rloew has just as much right to respond to any thread here as anyone else, and has every right to discuss his work. Not only that, but he probably knows more about 9x "under the hood" than anyone else here. So there's no need to have an attitude.

Really what you're asking comes down to personal preference. Out of the 9x systems Windows 98SE provides the best mix of compatibility, stability, and features (and has also received the greatest degree of interest and projects created out of the three). Windows 95 OSR2 is slightly faster than 98, but as you mentioned WDM is very limited (technically 95 OSR2.1 introduces WDM, but it's a very primitive implementation). Windows ME is slightly newer than 98SE, however the lack of access to real-mode DOS is an annoyance for some situations. There are other quirks involved in choosing a specific 9x version for a specific purpose, but most users will probably never need to worry about this. After installing 98SE we're back to personal preferences again. Out of the various update packs I only use NUSB 3.5, but some people are very happy using the Unofficial Service Pack or Autopatcher or whatever else. Just keep in mind it's not a good idea to mix up the unofficial packs. You'll have to choose one that suits you best. Each of them have their respective threads and it would be a good idea to read up on them and see what the pros and cons of each are. Your hardware choices will have some bearing on what you need, but since you first posted in the VBox thread I assume you are using virtualization, which will simplify this somewhat.