PaulRichards

Yes, most probably. At least I know what can go wrong

Loblo: it's all a bit academic now. It was working, it now doesn't.

Well, that's screwed up my Win98 completely. After several restarts as 98 tried to discover my hardware I now cannot boot into 98 - I get a black screen with 'Windows Protection Error - Please restart your computer' message.

Bump ;-)

Ah, OK. Thx for your interest

Can anyone provide further guidance on what I might do to overcome the issues outlined? TIA

submix8c: thanks for replying. I'll answer your last question first as I suspect this might be moot! I'm actually dual-booting WinXP with W98 so in the BIOS set up under IDE configuration, Serial-ATA 1 Controller and Serial-ATA 2 Controller are both set to 'Enabled'. ( the only other option is Disabled). Assuming that doesn't rule out further progress, yes, the motherboard is the one you have linked to I opened up the CD that came with the m/b and received a message to the effect that there was no support for "Win 4.11" I originally downloaded and attempted to install 81.98_forceware-Win 9X_international.exe from the nVidia website. This failed since the 6150 was not included in the nvaml.inf file. I then found a modified version 81.98_forceware-Win 9X_english for all cards up to G7.exe which included the 6150. This installed and gave me the nVidia Control Panel and enabled changes of resolution etc I've zipped up this branch from the Win98 registry and attached it. Thx for your help. HKLM-ENUM.zip

Spec: mobo Asus A8N-VM CSM with AMD Athlon 64 3500+ and nVidia GeForce 6150 and 1GB RAM Installed Win 98SE and (eventually) the drivers for the nVidia GeForce 6150. However there are some issues in Device Manager: (i) under 'Other Devices' are listed the following all with yellow question marks after them: PCI Bridge PCI Communication Device PCI Input Controller PCI Multimedia Audio Device PCI System Management Bus PCI Universal Serial Bus Each entry has the message 'The drivers for this device are not installed (Code 28)' (ii) Under 'System Devices' there are 4 entries for Motherboard Resources. The last 3 are shown as 'working properly. The first one, with an exclamation mark, has a message 'This device is causing a resource conflict (Code 15)'. If I look at the Resources tab, in the Conflicting device list four Input/Output ranges are identified as causing conflicts: 0500-057FF: alias of Secondary IDE Controller (single fifo), and of Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller 0580-055F : alias of Primary IDE Controller (single fifo), and of Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller 0900-097F: alias of Secondary IDE Controller (single fifo), and of Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller 0980-09FF: alias of Primary IDE Controller (single fifo), and of Standard Dual PCI Ide Controller In terms of Win 98 operating I don't detect any problems but there clearly are some issue here, and I really don't know how to fix them so advice would be appreciated. TIA