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Hello, all. I've just recently added T-Mobile's 3G internet to my Nokia N8. Under XP, I can tether the phone to my computer via USB cable then connect to the internet through Nokia's PC Suite. Unfortunately, the last version of PC Suite that runs under Windows 98 is 5.8, which is from 2004 and doesn't support my phone or 3G internet. And, the newer versions of PC Suite refuse to install under 98 even with KernelEx. I would prefer to be able to use this speedier connection under 98 rather than XP, as I don't care much for using XP (can you blame me?). When I set my N8's USB connection mode to "connect PC to internet," Win98 tries to install drivers for this mode, but, of course, it fails (since I don't have PC Suite installed). Are there any "generic" drivers I can use as a substitute for this? Or any other possible work-around? Thanks in advance.

The Omnibook 900B uses a Texas Instruments PCI-1225 CardBus Controller. I have been unable to locate a DOS driver for it. If anyone can help me out with that, it would be great. I installed the trial version of their software, but it locks up my machine.

Hello all. I have an HP Omnibook 900 laptop which has two PCMCIA slots. I've installed a MIDI card that works in both Win98 and DOS. The card works fine with games when I drop to the DOS prompt from Win98 and run them from there. However the card isn't usable once I restart the computer in MS-DOS mode. Why? Because its detection program requires a PCMCIA driver for DOS. D'oh... Of course, HP's driver package for the Omnibook doesn't contain any PCMCIA drivers for DOS, and the generic "CardSoft" driver that I tried couldn't identify the PCMCIA hardware in my machine. Can anyone recommend either a specific or generic driver that will hopefully suit my needs? Thanks in advance.

Apparently not. Thanks for digging that up for me. This time I'm keeping the info in a text file so as not to bug people about it again.

Hello, all. I recently installed the NUSB drivers on my laptop which is running Win98SE. They worked great, allowing me to take full advantage of the computer's USB port. However somewhere along the line they seem to have been "knocked out." Every time I try to re-install them, Windows decides to do its own thing and install a driver that doesn't work. In other words, it skips over the NUSB drivers completely. (Thanks for nothing, Windows - as usual.) So for the moment, I'm screwed. I seem to recall having this problem once before with my desktop computer, and someone from this forum helped me with it. However it was several years ago and I've forgotten what the remedy is. Any help appreciated, thanks.

I finally figured out what the problem was: the driver for my ATI Rage II+ video card. I recently replaced the card with an Nvidia Geforce 6200. Since installing the Nvidia card and removing the ATI card, along with its drivers, I've noticed that XP no longer hangs. It has finally become, more or less, as reliable as my 98SE installation. It's great! But I still prefer 98SE and use it most of the time.

It's a HighPoint RocketRAID 1720. Yes. Yes. Other programs such as NOD32 anti-virus also acknowledge the HD, but of course can't access it since it's NTFS-formatted.

Yes. And, as I said before, the NTFS programs for Win98 that I've tried can correctly detect the HD and its size - they just can't access its file system. Yes. The largest sized single file stored on the partition is 2GB. Nearly 30GB of the total space is currently used by files.

Yes. I tried five or so different programs of that kind, Paragon's being among them. No success.

Hello, everyone. When I used to have a laptop set up with 98SE and XP on the same HD, I used NTFS4DOS to access the NTFS partition under 98SE. Now, I have my desktop running 98SE on the C drive and XP running on the D drive (which is connected to a PCI RAID card). I've tried about five different programs to access the D drive from 98SE with no success. While these programs correctly identify the D drive as 500GB, they're unable to access it. None of the programs have given me any helpful "reason" why, except for NTFS4DOS which reports: "Hard Drive partitions not found by XP_SHELL!" So, what (if anything) can I do? Any help appreciated. Thank you.

Done -- and working fine. 7.0

It's fine. I already had the full version of his patch installed... or so I thought. When you mentioned this, I decided to open the patch's installer to make sure everything was OK. To my surprise, the installer reported "incomplete installation detected" (or something to that effect). Strange, as it reported success when I initially installed it. Well, no matter. I had it "complete" the installation and after a reboot, NOD32 seems to be working fine once again. Great. Thanks for the suggestions.

It's currently set at 40000, which is the value I've seen recommended just about everywhere. Shouldn't that suffice? Yes, I've had that fix applied for quite a while, now. Before I upgraded my RAM to 832MB last year, I made certain to apply all the patches recommended by this community. I knew I would be upgrading the memory again later and didn't want to overlook anything.

Yes, I'm using 98SE right now. It's my primary OS and it never fails me. I've searched, and I already have the most updated drivers for every device. I'll give that a try - but if doing this returns no positive result, what then? I'm pretty sure I can, considering this same exact problem happened with a prior WinXP installation on the same machine - and at that time, I was running XP on a second IDE HD, connected directly to the motherboard. I'm pretty sure this is a recurring issue related to hardware / software.

Hello, everyone. I've just added a new HDD to my machine and installed Windows XP on it. I'm having a problem each time I use XP, wherein the system hangs and is completely unresponsive, meaning I can't get a memory dump when it hangs though the option to do so is enabled. I had this exact same problem before, on the same machine, but with XP installed to a completely different HDD (which I have long since removed). Therefore, I believe the problem must lie somewhere with my hardware or software, rather than with this particular XP installation. Here is a brief rundown of my system specs, in case it's noteworthy: Compaq 5WV270 AMD Athlon @ 1.3Ghz 1.3GB RAM ATI RAGE II+ graphics card running XP SP3 There doesn't really seem to be any set time limit before the system hangs. Sometimes I can leave the computer on for many hours, sometimes just a few hours - but it hangs each and every time I use XP. This is especially irritating if I am performing a Windows Update or downloading a large file, etc. I have 98SE installed on my C: drive, where it has been operating perfectly since 2005 with several "unofficial" enhancement and compatibility patches. Needless to say I'm therefore miffed that XP, with only completely official installation and updates, fails to remain stable on the same machine. Any help appreciated. Of course I can provide additional details / logs if necessary. Thanks in advance.

Hello, everyone. I've just upgraded my RAM from 832MB to 1.3GB. Of course, I already had the VCACHE fix patched into the SYSTEM.INI and SYSTEM.CB files, and patched VCACHE.VXD file, so everything in my Win98SE setup is working OK. Everything, that is, except NOD32 anti-virus (v2.7) which crashes with a KRNL386 error when trying to scan memory. Following the crash, just about every other program begins to crash in succession. I have quite a few programs installed on the machine and NOD32 is the only one causing a problem since the additional memory was installed. Needless to say this is a bit disheartening so I'd like to get to the bottom of it and potentially fix the issue. I wager someone here may have already had the problem (though my search of the forum didn't reveal it), so any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Could you please provide a download link to this driver patch? I want to make certain I'm fully prepared in case any issues spring up along the way.

Hello again. I plugged the RAID controller back into the computer and started it up, and for some reason the computer now boots by default from my original HDD (just like I wanted it to). I'm not sure why this is now the case. After all, I had always specified in the motherboard's BIOS that the HDD is the first thing to boot from. I didn't change any settings around while the RAID card was installed before, nor after I removed it from the machine. My guess is the computer just figured things out. *shrugs* I don't really care what the reason is though, because the problem is now solved without me having to do anything, and I'm happy. The drivers I downloaded for the RAID card work fine in 98SE and I was also able to load them (via floppy disk! Argh!) into the Windows XP installer, to get it to recognize the SATA HDD. Thus I have installed Windows XP to the new HDD (which is now drive D) and have kept Win98SE on my C drive, for maximum compatibility (even with the unofficial updates pack, SE2ME and KernelEX, there's still some few applications I need that won't run under 98SE). So, all is well again. Thanks for the tips, guys.

What options / switches need to be specified in order to accomplish this?

But won't my old HDD still technically be the D drive? That will mess up all my settings and installed programs, as they are set up for drive C.

I don't have that option in my computer's BIOS. In the boot process menu, it only allows me to choose between the HDD that shipped with the computer, the CD-ROM drive and the floppy drive. There's nothing in there regarding add-in cards being selected as boot devices. And also, as I said, the 500GB HDD I connected to the HighPoint card is not detected by my computer's BIOS; only by the BIOS of the card itself. Since the HighPoint card BIOS comes up before my computer's BIOS does, it is actually in control of the boot process - and its configuration menu does not let me do anything about changing the boot drive away from the 500GB SATA drive that's connected to it. It's a RocketRAID 1720.

Thanks, SomeGuy, the information you provided was quite helpful. I decided to dump the VIA card altogether and go with one by HighPoint Technologies. When I plugged this new HighPoint card into my machine and hooked the SATA HDD to it, the card's BIOS came up immediately upon powering on my machine, and it pulled up the 500GB HDD no problem. So that's the first hurdle cleared, at least. The problem is, I am quite a bit over my head here, having never before dealt with any SATA device before... My computer's BIOS doesn't pick up on the new SATA HDD at all, and the BIOS of the HighPoint card loads in before the computer's BIOS, to take total control of the boot process. This means that the HighPoint card assigns the new 500GB HDD the drive letter C, and forces it to be the only HDD the computer tries to boot from. Certainly I can pop in my Win98SE CD-ROM to boot to a DOS prompt. And then, I can use my updated version of FDISK (stored on my regular HDD) to init the new drive and get it set up for the full 500GB. But I DO NOT WANT the 500GB drive to be my C drive. I wish to keep booting from the HDD that came with the computer, with it remaining as the C drive, and have the new drive set up as a secondary. I am probably missing something very simple. At least I hope that's the case. If you (or anyone else here) can help me get that drive switched over from the C (primary) drive, that would save me a real headache. I don't do a lot on the hardware side, so much of this is all new to me. Thanks.

Sure. This. Thank you for the link. I have followed the instructions found on the page, however my system still does not seem to detect the drive. Is there anything else I can try? Thanks.

Hello, all. I wish to add a second, new HDD to my system (a Compaq 5WV270). Here's the hardware I bought to do it with: - VIA RAID Controller 3249 PCI card - Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB HDD - Standard power cable converter to SATA - SATA cable I plugged in the PCI card and connected it to the HDD. I then connected the HDD to the SATA power plug, and secured it inside the HDD bay. When I powered on the machine, Windows 98SE detected the VIA RAID Controller card and successfully installed the drivers from the CD-ROM drive. Later on when I reset the machine, I noticed the VIA card is detected and enabled in the BIOS, on IRQ5. ...but that's it. There's no mention of the HDD anywhere and I can't seem to access it with FDISK or by any other means. Apparently I'm missing something so I figured I'd better post here for some help. Any info will be much appreciated, thank you.

Success! I was beginning to think I'd never see the day when I would be able to properly use my USB storage devices with Win98SE. But now that day has come, and it's a hearty victory indeed. Thanks for your help.