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krick

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  1. Any plans on making an all-in-one installer that detects the windows version and installs the correct patched file?
  2. Yeah, I know. I was one of the posters in that thread. I'm well aware of the memory limitations in Windows 98SE. I'm running the Unofficial 98SE SP2.1a with the memory tweaks. I've been running a AMD Opteron 148 + ASUS A8V Deluxe + 1GB of memory and 98SE for quite some time with no problems, so I was surprised to have random blue screens on the other system so I'm trying to figure out if it's the motherboard, the CPU, or a software problem.
  3. Seriously, who uses screensavers anymore? They're so 1989.
  4. This is what it was the last time... A Fatal Exception 0E Has Occurred at 0028:F000EEF3 I believe it's always the same up to the colon but the address at the end might be different. I didn't write them all down. I tried to install 98SE2ME and it didn't make any difference except the CPU load kept fluctuating between 0 and 100% when running Prime95 torture test, which it didn't do under plain 98SE. After 98SE2ME didn't work, I gave up and installed Windows 2000 with Gurglemeyer's Unofficial Service Pack 5 slipstreamed in. I ran the Prime95 torture test last night for over 8 hours and it didn't bluescreen so the problem is definitely Windows 9x and/or one of the drivers. I think I'll experiment and do a clean 98 install straight from the CD and then try running the prime95 torture test before installing any other drivers or updates. If that passes, I'll add one driver/update at a time followed by prime95 until I figure out what's causing the crash.
  5. I've got a P4P800 Deluxe + CT-479 adapter + Pentium M 730 Dothan + 1GB memory. I'm trying to run Windows 98SE on it. It seems to run fine for about an hour or so, then a Blue Screen. I'm not overclocking it at all. It runs incredibly cool so I'm positive it's not an overheating problem. I even added an extra fan pointed at the CPU and northbridge heatsinks just in case. I've run the Windows Memory Diagnostic boot disk for about 2 hours and the memory comes up clean. Just sitting idle it eventually bluescreens. The blue screen doesn't indicate any particular program or driver either which is the weird part so I'm not really sure how to troubleshoot this. I'm running the Unofficial Windows 98SE Service Pack 2. I'm thinking about doing the 98SE2ME upgrade to see if that makes any difference. Can anyone offer any guidance here?
  6. This has been discussed pretty thoroughly before... http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=63970 But to summarize... There are two limitations: hardware and software. On the hardware side, some motherboards / BIOSes simply have problems with problems with large amounts of memory. But, assuming you have a decent motherboard that can handle the amount of memory you're wanting to use, you'll run into the software limits of Windows... You can use 512M-1GB by changing some settings in system.ini. The unofficial service pack can make these changes. It's one of the install options. Using over 1GB is iffy. Typically, people that run over 1GB in windows 98 modify their windows settings to tell Windows not to use it all. This is pointless unless you are dual booting with another operating system that CAN see the extra memory.
  7. I think it would be useful if someone could create a table (or a nice list) for the first page of this thread that shows all the known versions of ESDI_506.PDR, which OS they're for, and what the patched version number is (if it exists) with a link to download the patch.
  8. Just checking... Both Windows 98SE *and* Windows ME versions of scandisk and defrag have this limitation?
  9. I know I'm probably too late here but I think it would be better to change the version numbers like this... 4.10.2222 -> 4.10.2232 4.10.2223 -> 4.10.2233 4.10.2224 -> 4.10.2234 4.10.2225 -> 4.10.2235 4.10.2226 -> 4.10.2236 Two reasons: 1) there might actually be a 2227 or higher build in the wild that we don't know about so jumping by 10 leaves a gap for safety. 2) the last digit stays the same so you can easily tell what the original version was Just for reference, there's a wiki page on microsoft version numbering... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Version_Number
  10. I have a friend who installed SP2 on his 98SE machine. During the SP2 install, he got a warning about two DLLs that were newer on his system than the ones in the service pack... hhctrlui.dll iscript.dll I told him to keep the newer files. Was that the right thing to do? Are these DLLs needed for the next version of SP2? If so, I can try to get them from him. Let me know.
  11. As a last resort before I give up and do a format & re-install, I always try an "in place re-install". Basically, you re-install windows from the CD (or your cabs directory) over top of the old installation. I've brought crippled systems back from the dead that way. You sometimes need to re-install some drivers when you're done but your programs and data all survive from the previous installation.
  12. Oh, I realize that. I just thought it was slick to use an exe installer to not actually install anything and just "wrap" a batch file. I would have never thought of that in a million years. Once you've wrapped your batch file in the exe, another cool thing you could do is use a resource hacker to change the default "installer" icon to something more presentable. This is probably more useful than you realize. I've seen more than one program that will only call external programs that end with "exe". Case in point, two years ago, I was trying to get some software here at work to launch a java JAR file. Not only did the program refuse to accept the JAR extension, it also converted the whole command line to upper case so I was unable to call java.exe -jar foo.jar since java is case sensitive and only recognizes "-jar" not "-JAR". The wrapper trick would have solved this problem.
  13. I found this link on digg.com and I thought it was a pretty cool idea... How to Convert a .BAT file or .VBS file into .EXE http://renegadetech.blogspot.com/2006/07/h...r-vbs-file.html MDGx, do you know about this one yet?
  14. There's new VIA drivers. Version 509A... http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageI...&CatID=1070 No word on what exactly is fixed in the way of bugs in this version.
  15. I recommend the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack... http://www.codecguide.com/ It's frequently updated and I've never had any problems with it.
  16. I agree as well. The current logo screens included in SP2 are kinda scary. The older "tasteful" ones that you mention are the best. As a possible second choice, there's two interesting variations on the animated XP logo screen floating around. One says "Windows 98SE" instead of "Windows XP", the other simply says "Windows". Both are very tasteful.
  17. Did you install the latest VIA chipset drivers after you installed windows?... http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageI...ID=6&CatID=1110
  18. Well, it turns out that it *will* upgrade a copy of 98FE, even though it doesn't explicitly say so on the package. I just booted into windows, popped in the CD. It asked if I wanted to upgrade and I said yes. When I was done with the upgrade, I had to "repair" Internet Explorer 6 because it was acting funny but everything else seems ok. Oh, and I had to "repair" AVG anti-virus too because it claimed that the install was "damaged" on startup. I might re-install DirectX as suggested above, just in case. I installed USP2 and I still need to check if there are any windows updates that I now need due to the upgrade. But overall, the whole thing was pretty painless. I really expected things to go horribly wrong.
  19. I want to keep evertything currently installed. It's not my computer or I'd just wipe it and start fresh. I was mainly wondering if this would do the update from windows or not, and also if it would trash my registry and installed programs since it's not specifically designed to upgrade windows 98 first edition. It sounds like an update from within windows won't work, and I'll have to do what amounts to an in-place re-install, just using a different CD than was originally used. I'm not worried about the CD check. I have a copy of windows 95.
  20. I have a system running Windows 98 (first edition). I have in my possession, a CD titled "Microsoft Windows 98 Upgrade for users of Windows 3.1x and Windows 95" with a splash in the corner "Second Edition updated and improved". Is it possible to use this to upgrade 98 First Edition even though it doesn't say so? Do I have to resort to an "in place re-install"? I've never gone from 98FE to 98SE so I just want to get some advice before I go screwing stuff up.
  21. I liked that old unofficial 98SE service pack boot logo much better. I think the new one is really ugly. The old one looked just like the normal 98 splash screen but with "second edition" added below. The only other one I think is half decent is the one that looks like the XP boot screen with the black background. I think MDGx has it in his boot logo pack.
  22. I set up my system using the 5.07 drivers. From what I understand, the IDE filter thing is only for UDMA6 (ultra 133), which none of my drives support anyway. It looks like everything installed correctly too, including the AGP. I ran dxdiag and didn't see the AGP texture problem that you mentioned. The only thing I saw that might be a problem is when I run CPU-Z, there's something about AGP sideband not being supported. However, I'm not sure if it's referring to my AGP card itself, the motherboard, or the drivers. I'm currently testing everything with a 32Meg TNT2 card I had laying around. Ultimately, this computer will be running a Radeon 9250 based ArcadeVGA card. Are there any specific utilities other than dxdiag that I should run that would indicate wether or not I had chipset driver problems?
  23. I finally got a break from work and got back to setting up my Asus A8V Deluxe tonight. The VIA Version 4.43 driver is dated 25 October 2001. I was poking around the ASUS site, looking for the latest versions of the drivers and whatnot, and I noticed that they have a different VIA driver package that appears to be newer than the 4.43 you used. Description VIA 4 in 1 driver Package Service v4.49P3 Version 4.49P3 2003/10/22 update OS Win98SE / WinME / Win2K / WinXP File Size 1.34 (MBytes) http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/4in1_449p3.zip I also found this page on the VIA site that has even more to choose from... http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageI...atID=1110&Old=1 Version - 4.53 16 August 2004 Version - 4.55vp1 25 November 2004 Version - 4.56v 12 April 2005 Note that the link is broken on version 4.56. Here's the right link... http://downloads.viaarena.com/drivers/4in1...04in1_v456v.zip The 4.53 version actually has some release notes too... http://downloads.viaarena.com/drivers/4in1...lease(453v).doc Some of it is pretty interesting. I'm pretty sure that the reason that VIA posts the 4.43 drivers when there are better newer versions, is that 4.43 was the last version that was WHQL certified for windows 9x. If you look at the release notes for v 4.53, it shows that and also shows that a few decent bugs were fixed in later versions.
  24. Yikes! I hope I don't have to go through all that with my ASUS A8V. That would really suck.
  25. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here about "you don't get AGP" with the latest 4-in-1 drivers. Is this specific to your board, specific Via chipsets, or all boards using Via chipsets? Can you explain in more detail?
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