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Now it is becoming interesting, grabbing some popcorn ... jaclaz

I stated: Go here: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_pvr250-350.html Click on the FAQ tab. Expand the question "What Operating Systems are supported by the WinTV-PVR-250/350?": jaclaz

To be fair you asked an otiose question http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/mcdonalds-prices/ Besides that, using McDonalds prices is extremely appropriate as - not so casually - they are used in the by now internationally recognized Big Mac Index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index And - within the US - the QPI: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/mortgages/home-search/quarter-pounder-index-most-least-expensive-cities/ the above 2013 prices (excluded Alaska and Hawaii ) show some non-trivial variation, $4.52 in Rhode Island vs. $2.24 in Arkansas is almost exactly a 2:1 ratio. jaclaz

No. Do not confuse GRUB with grub4dos. That tutorial: http://clubweb.interbaun.com/~mward/grub.html#use is a very old one and it is about GRUB. They are DIFFERENT tools, grub4dos is an evolution of the first, GRUB only has a small subset of the capabilities of grub4dos, which was named "for Dos" for some reasons... There is no "Linux Ramdisk" anywhere involved in the threads on reboot.pro you linked to. You still seem like having an obsession with "Linux". I don't know where did you find those "crazy" multi-Mb sizes. The boot manager and loader of NT up to XP (NTLDR), including the accessory files (NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI) is in the hundreds of Kb range, and as well the NT 6+ (BOOTMGR and \boot\BCD\) are only slightly larger. DOS/9x/Me do not have a "real" bootloader, IO.SYS is the system file that is also the bootloader. Boot floppies for all those OS can be done easily, and they are (talking of a coommon 3.5" 1.44 floppy more than half empty (for a single OS). jaclaz

That would make 007 McRib Sandwiches (with license to kill) jaclaz

The device at hand is a TV capture card, it has (including the software) a level of complexity that is higher than a "normal" network card or of an audio card, and since part of the software (besides strictly the driver) is "proprietary" it is very probable that it is "picky", even on supported OS. Anyway the TVR-H-1600 is PCI so that is not the issue at hand. http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr1600.html The Win-TV-USB cards do have drivers for 98: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_usb.html But more or less the PCI cards supported in Windows 9x are seemingly the 250 and 350: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_pvr250-350.html jaclaz

You will never know until you will be blinded by your "ideology", unfortunately. Now if I gave you all these info, you would probably see the light, but I would likely be accused of proselitism, and seeing suddenly the light after years of (self-inflicted) blindness may represent a risk for your sanity. Sure, and it can also make coffee (black, strong, two of sugar for me, thanks). I will provide you with an example (fasten your seat belt and put your sunglasses on, please ): http://reboot.pro/topic/20674-solution-spyhunter-made-windows-7-unbootable/ (chainloading a Windows loader bypassing any MBR and PBR code on another partition and fake it is in the right one) Also, how exactly do you think we can have Windows 2K/XP/7 in ramdisK (using Firadisk or Winvbock)? jaclaz

Well that is only *somehow* ideoology (pointless BTW) what the good Chinese guys did was to make the good GRUB (0.99) into something capable of booting *any OS* BESIDES Linux, adding an endless number of useful features, some strictly unique to it and that are missing in ALL other bootmanagers. I guess you won't also touch (and never touched) Syslinux/Isolinux or MakebootFAT and ALL its derivatives (as they may have some Linux roots). Don' t EVEN THINK of testing Beatzero's Winbuilder project, as it is contaminated by grub4dos. jaclaz

But is the issue a corrupted file/download or is it just the installer not working? It would be not the first time that a third party site lists Win 9x/Me compatibility for things that are only XP and later. Try using this other source for the download (and check the fies are the same/match): http://static.softoware.net/data/programs/resources/hauppauge_cd_3.4d1.zip jaclaz

Which is still Franck Uberto's one, originally distributed as fu_rd19i.zip: http://www.geocities.ws/politalk/rmdrv/fu_rd19i.htm jaclaz

As usual. WHAT did you find? (EXACTLY) WHERE did you find it? (EXACTLY, post a link) Your Windows 98 can or cannot read it? You opened "details" of what? This thingy here? http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr1800.html I don't think there is any driver for 9x for it jaclaz

Then, try the suggested one. Rest assured that if Fernando recommends one, it has been tested thoroughfully. http://www.win-raid.com/t29f25-Recommended-AHCI-RAID-and-NVMe-Drivers.html jaclaz

xHCI ? You mean USB 3+? As long as BIOS provides access to it/booting from it, sure (for the booting, NOT for keyboard/mouse AFAIK). Who talked of Linux? What do you mean "I remember it crashed", there are several ways/methods for 9x in ramdisk, some needing/using a registry redirector, some possibly needing it not. It's a lot of time noone dedicated some time to similar projects, *like*: http://www.geocities.ws/politalk/ or http://www.craftcom.net/15_cdboot_hdd/tisk_cdboot_w98.htm (the Qualystem approach worked just fine) and there were quite a few progresses in the meantime, though most of the projects revolved around "minimal" Windows 9x, like: http://reboot.pro/forum/53-winimize/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140391-windows-98-live-cd-project-update/ (for the record the project by Beatzero, that started out as very promising, in later versions - before being abandoned for good - was *somehow* over-engineered to the point it didn't work anymore reliably). jaclaz

As always: Which drivers did you download? Downloaded from where? Which BSOD? (which Stop error) Is that an Asmedia 106x controller, is it not? http://www.win-raid.com/t1256f25-unable-to-install-x-sata-controller-bsod.html jaclaz

Well, Windows 9x has been run in RAMdisk since YEARS (using Franck Uberto's XMS ramdisk, usually) and now (last few years) that we have the great flexibility of grub4dos, there are no problems with initiating the booting from a USB device. As a matter of fact, most probably it would be relatively easy for Rloew to provide a "hooking" mechanism similar to the one Firadisk or Winvblock use. Of course the initial copying of files to ramdisk takes anyway some time, so the size of the "system" volume backing file should be chosen with some common sense. jaclaz

Well, it should have been posted here : jaclaz

Seemingly the Startech PEXUSB4DP can still be found, like: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=PEXUSB4DP&_sop=15 http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=fed&cs=16&sku=a7016982 jaclaz

To be fair the most promising (though not yet "there", it has nice 3dfx support), is PCem (Author is Sarah Walker): https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ jaclaz

Why, in my day, I had a ZX-80 with a whopping 1 Kb of memory .... ... and we liked it : https://tinyapps.org/blog/misc/200702250700_why_in_my_day.html BTW, let's not perpetrate urban legends, however: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp And yes, 16 Gb of RAM on Windows 7 64 bit system do seem like "adequate" (though on the "abundant" side of possible ranges), but 29 Gb on a 9x/Me system still seem "excessive", let's say that the first represent 8 (eight) times the "minimum requirement" of 2 Gb (and are supported in the design of the OS by the manufacturer), the second represent 928 (ninehundredtwentyeight) times (it sounds more like a Porsche car model than a - anyway large - multiplier for RAM size) the minimum amount for Me (32 Mb). Given that also processors have made some slight progresses, all in all nowadays a VM is several times faster (including a "plain" storage subsystem, possibly on SSD) than the fastest machine any programmer of any program (game or otherwise) would have dreamed of, even if you allow for a 30% to 50% slugginess due to the virtualization. As you correctly presumed I am not too much into gaming (please read as not at all since many, many years), but allow me to presume that reaction times of the player has not increased with similar rates, and that even loading times of complex games, comparing a year 20xx IDE DVD reader against a modern SATA SSD, (but nothing in the case of a VM running on a more modern OS prevents from having them in a RAMdisk) are not that bad. jaclaz

Sure, but it's not that you actually use it (without a suitable ramdisk). You don't *need* that crazy amount of memory (generally speaking) but SURELY you won't have a practical use for it in Windows 98/Me. Mind you it is fine (and often "fun" ) to do experiments for "futile" motives, like "because I can", or "because noone did it before", it is the attempt to make it seem "rational" that creates the circular reasoning. There is NO (rational) reason for 29 Gb of RAM, let alone on a 9x/Me machine, and if there was one you have spent by now all the time you could ever save with a fast ramdisk theorizing on ramdisks, nitpicking on their names and more generally arguing on nearly everything that has been posted. Sure the US$ 40+ for a PCI Express to PCI adapter is "overpriced", but while I could say so (being notoriously cheap ) you cannot, not after having spent good dollars for a large amount of RAM that you cannot use (without a suitable ramdisk) additionally creating artificially (because you have so much RAM) the need for the suitable ramdisk. This seems pretty much circular to me. jaclaz

Sure , but you are asking about a low profile video card "the best possible" AND compatible with Windows 98", what I was trying to tell you was that maybe instead of having the possibility to choose between a handful of low-profile card you could prefer to have the possibility to choose among tens of "full sized" video cards (BTW also much easier to find used/second hand) using such a riser card (of course it depends on the specific motherboard/case if the solution is suitable). jaclaz

8 cm? Wouldn't you want/need a PCI AGP raiser card? *like* (examples): http://www.cablematic.it/AGP-Riser-card/ https://www.startech.com/support/MICROAGPRIS http://cofan-usa.com/riser-cards/agp-series/ jaclaz

See if this fits the bill : https://www.sevenforums.com/customization/45276-possible-change-list-item-height-spacing.html jaclaz

A nice example of circular reasoning. jaclaz

Ow, come on, you cannot discuss with Google, nor nitpick with it on names given to programs, half of the fun would go away. Just as an example, without the information that fu_rd comes out from Franck Uberto's Ram Disk, one may assume that it comes from "furd" which would open a hell of a renaming contest: jaclaz