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Is there anyway to take XP rawmouse support and hack it into 2K?

Do older versions of SP2 exhibit the same problem? Maybe we can pin it down to a specific update.

USR made good hardware modems but dropped the ball when it came to software modems (aka winmodems). I'd junk it and pick up a new non-USR winmodem. I've had very good results with Lucent/Agere based winmodems and also with recent PCTel winmodems. You can get a new lucent/agere modem for less than $20. It will support V.92/V.44 features including modem-on-hold, quick connect, PCM upstream, and improved compression on calls to V.92-compatible ISPs.

I'm not positive but I think SATA *might* be a problem for the boot drive as SATA didn't even exist when 98SE came out. Windows 2K and XP have a step during the installation setup where you can insert a floppy with SATA/RAID/SCSI etc.. drivers if necessary. Windows 98SE doesn't. I'd give it a try first to see what happens. If it doesn't work, you could always get an SATA to EIDE adapter... Addonics ADSAIDE SATA-IDE/ATAPI converter Who knows, after you have it all installed including the SATA drivers, maybe you'll be able to remove the adapter and plug it back into the SATA connector.

They're optional. Also, you can easily delete them. (Just delete: C:\LOGO.SYS and C:\WINDOWS\LOGOW.SYS). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What I mean is that I like your other boot logos instead. The ones that your service pack included before these ones.

I just installed 2.0.2 and I must say that I don't like the new boot logos. The first problem is that they're based on the XP "rolling hills" desktop, which I really don't care for, then it looks like crap dithered down to 256 colors or whatever. I much prefer the simpler original ones with "second edition" added to the bottom.

I think you're confusing MAPI with IMAP. IMAP is an email protocol. MAPI is an API for hooking applications into windows email clients (outlook & outlook express).

Have you looked at XXCOPY? It's easy to backup using the /CLONE switch... XXCOPY <source> <destination> /CLONE http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy10.htm

I managed to get the unpacked. Here's the unpacked BIOS installer... http://3feetunder.com/files/dell_gx_a20_unpacked.zip For the curious, I used UN-PACK 2.2 to figure out what it was packed with (LZEXE) and I used X-TRACT v1.51 to unpack it.

I have an old Dell Optiplex GXL 5133 computer. I would like to do an AMD K6 400 powerleap upgrade on it but the DELL Award BIOS has a check that prevents the computer from booting with a non-Intel CPU. I remember seeing someone on the boards here that had experience modifiying their PC BIOS (I think it might have been Petr). Anyway, this seems like it should be a simple modification. I don't know if the check is done using CPUID or using the CPU string. Here's a link to the BIOS file... http://3feetunder.com/files/dell_gx_a20.zip Inside the zip file is the EXE bios installer. When I looked into this several years ago, I believe the BIOS installer was compressed with an exe compressor. I don't remember which one but I'm pretty sure I managed to un-compress it. However, I must have deleted the fruits of my labor because I can't seem to find it anymore. Any help with this endeavor will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Krick

With the proper adapter, it can work... Socket 370 tualatin adapter: http://www.strattoncomputer.com/so370adcpuup.html Slot 1 tualatin adapter: http://www.strattoncomputer.com/slot1-fcpga2.html Officially, my Abit BM6 motherboard will only support non-coppermine CPUs up to 600MHz. Notes from the QT bios revision: "Supports 1.5V (cB0 stepping) Celeron 566(66) and 600(66) MHz CPUs. CC0 and newer stepping Celeron CPUs are not supported." However with a bit of work, I managed to run a 1.1GHz coppermine chip on it... http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/bm6/ And I later used one of the Socket 370 adapters above to run a 1.4GHz tualatin CPU in it.

MGDx, What procedure do you use in 98SE2ME to backup/restore windows? Is is a batch file? If so, what does it look like? I want to do some hardware benchmarking on a windows 98SE system and I want to have an easy way to go back to a "clean slate" after installing and benchmarking each hardware device.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I *think* that windows 98SE must be installed on the "C" drive which is typically the first partition on your primary drive. Windows XP will install to any partition on any drive. So given your hardware, I'd set up the 120GB as the primary drive ©, the 160 as the secondary drive (D), then install Windows 98SE to the C drive first, then install XP to the D drive.

Have you tried installing this... Maximus Decim Native USB Pack ver.2.2 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43605 Also, is the mass storage drive formatted? In order to see it, I believe that it needs to be formatted somehow if it isn't already formatted correctly from the factory. It's kind of like hooking up an unformatted hard drive to your computer. Until you format it, it doesn't show up with a drive letter in My Computer.

You can view some of it on the Internet Archive... http://web.archive.org/web/20030210095816/...com/mrcode.html

Check out the K-Lite Mega codec pack... http://www.codecguide.com/

I think you should leave out all notepad replacements. Everybody knows that windows notepad sucks but I don't believe that your service pack should install a replacement. A lot of people think that Internet Explorer sucks. That doesn't mean that your service pack should install Firefox or Opera. On my computer, I have UltraEdit installed. In order to get UltraEdit to be the default editor in applications that have "notepad.exe" hardcoded, I've installed a stub application (provided by the UltraEdit guys) called notepad.exe that just launches UltraEdit instead. I don't want this stub application overwritten by the service pack.

The Proxomitron web filter, besides blocking ads and lots of other cool tricks, can log all HTTP activity. You can get it here along with a patch that fixes a lot of interface issues and makes it generally look and work better... http://www.xs4all.nl/~vsetten/prox/ And if you dig using Proxomitron (I've been using it for 5 years), you'll love the JD5000 filter set... http://www.jd5000.net/proxo/

I haven't found any. It's a Compaq Armada 7380DMT. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Here's the Compaq download page... http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/ar...cate/4_918.html

You have ACPI enabled. This allows windows to build a "virutal" interrupt system on top of the 4 real IRQs. This shows up as a lot of devices all using the same IRQ, usually IRQ9. In my experience, if you have PCI devices that won't share properly under a non-ACPI system, enabling ACPI isn't going to fix it. I prefer to not enable ACPI under windows 98SE mainly because I think the ACPI implementation is weak, but also because I find that it just masks sharing issues and makes them harder to troubleshoot. In my experience, problems with sound card sharing are the worst, followed by network card sharing issues. Often, the devices will still work but with bad performance problems and occasional stability problems. The most common problem is static with creative labs sound cards. When I'm building a new system, Before I install the OS, I spend a little time juggling PCI cards and making a map of which slot gets which IRQ line and which slots share with each other and also share with onboard devices. Then when I have it all mapped out, I install my sound card in the slot that shares with the least items (preferrably none), and then my network card in the seconds least sharing slot. This usually ends up being slots 2 and 3 respectively. Of course if all your devices are onboard, none of this applies as you usually don't have any control of how onboard devices share with each other.

I've had Roxio, Nero, and the adaptec ASPI layer installed at the same time and never had any problems. Though I do seem to recall seeing a page (on the Nero site?) that told you to put the Nero ASPI dll into the Nero installation folder to prevent ASPI layer issues. Regardless, I think you should keep the ASPI v4.60 in the update. UPDATE: I found a page that talks specifically about the Roxio/Nero problem and it sounds like DirectCD is the problem, not the ASPI layer... http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Tips/CDR%20And%20Win2k.asp

I'd be concerned about all the IRQ sharing going on. There are only 4 PCI IRQs to go around and Windows 98SE doesn't really handle IRQ sharing that well. In modern motherboards, it's nearly impossible to avoid sharing because of all the USB controllers. However, you can still try moving PCI cards around to minimize the sharing. The things that concern me are the VGA sharing, ethernet sharing (probably unavoidable) and the multimedia device sharing with the communication device. The first thing to do is to make sure you disable all the onboard devices you aren't using. I assume the communication device is a modem. If you're not using it, disable it in the BIOS. Same goes for the firewire. On SOME motherboards you can free up an extra IRQ by disabling the onboard serial port. In your case, I only see 5, 10, and 11 being used so your computer might be a good candidate. Some motherboards will also give up the PS/2 mouse IRQ (12) if you use a USB mouse instead.

Two things you should check... 1) power supply. Make sure that it is large enough to handle all the devices in your computer. Whgen drives are spinning up, they use a lot of power. This might explain why it fails on the first boot but succeeds on the second (after the drives are already spinning). Also your power supply might be failing (or just crappy). If you can, swap it with another known working (possibly higher wattage) power supply to see if the problem clears up. 2) Make sure there isn't an IRQ conflict between the video card and something else in the system. I think you can run MSINFO32 from Start->Run to get an IRQ assignment list. Or you can just get the info from device mamager. Either way, you can post the list here and I'll look at it for you.

Have you checked for bios updates? What is the make and model of your laptop?

I wasn't clear in my subject for this post but I was suggested that this might be added to the next major version of the Unofficial 98SE Service Pack. There's a page on the Microsoft site that offers downloads to "tweak" IE5... Web Accessories for Internet Explorer 5 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previo...ss/default.mspx It's an old page but the downloads still work, even with IE6. There's 4 downloads on the page. The Wallpaper download is useless, but the other three add really useful functionality to IE... Web Accessories for Internet Explorer 5 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previo...cess/ie5wa.mspx • Open Frame in New Window Tired of HTML frames boxing you in? Ever wish you could see a page without all those annoying sidebars? Now you can! Just right-click anywhere in the frame you're interested in, and select Open in New Frame. • Quick Search This Web Accessory lets you reach the search engines of your choice faster than ever. For example, typing "av ActiveX" into the address bar launches a search with Alta Vista on the keyword "ActiveX." To activate this feature, select it from the links bar and then click on the "Save" button. • Zoom In/Zoom Out Get up close and personal. This Web Accessory lets you zoom in and out of any image on a Web page. Just right-click on it and select Zoom In or Zoom Out. • Image Toggler Now you can turn off images for extra speed and turn them back on again even more quickly and easily. Simply look for Toggle Images in the Links bar and click it. • Text Highlighter This Web Accessory lets you highlight text in a document just like you would in Microsoft Word. It's easy. Select your text, then right-click and choose Highlight. This tool is very useful for reading long documents. • Web Search Here's another tool for searching faster than ever. With this Web Accessory you can select keywords on a Web page, right-click, and choose Web Search. Your selected words go directly to a default search engine. • Links List Ever wish you could see all the links on a page? Just right-click anywhere and select Links Lists, and you'll get a new window with every link on the page in a convenient list format. Then just click any link to navigate. • Image List Finding out what size the images on a page are and how long they take to download at various connection speeds has never been easier. This tool will also display all the images on a Web page in a separate window and display the file size and the size in pixels. This is a must-have accessory for Web developers. Internet Explorer 5 Power Tweaks Web Accessories http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previo...ss/pwrtwks.mspx This pack of Web Accessories adds an Offline/Online button to your toolbar that is very useful for notebook computer users. Restriction commands in the Tools menu help you set sites as trusted or restricted without having to wade through the control panel. You can also copy a URL onto the clipboard with a right-click of the mouse and paste locations in e-mail messages or any document. Internet Explorer 5 Web Developer Accessories http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previo...bdevaccess.mspx These two tools help the Web developer or those who are just curious about how pages are coded. The DOM tree tool lets you view all the Document Object Model properties in tree form with a right-click of the mouse or from the Tools menu. And for those who are tired of scrolling through hundreds of lines of HTML to find that one section of code that does what you want, you can now simply highlight the area of Web page for which you want to view the source, right-click on it, and then select View Partial Source.