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It looks like I have v. 4.12.01.0283-1.40.0030 drivers (9/20/02) but your Vogons link is v. 4.12.01.0381-1.80.0010 (9/23/03). My card is the Audigy2 Platinum (with the remote control and drive-bay-mounted multi-interface panel). I might try the newer drivers the next time I re-build that system. Thanks for the link.

I downloaded what I think is the XPI file for the youtube-flash-video-player mentioned by XPocalypse. I had to use wget, so I don't have the download link handy. The install.rdf sez the home page for the add-on is barisderin.com. I changed the minimum FF version to 2 and re-zipped the package and installed it. I see it show up in FF addon list as Youtube Flash Video Player 50.2.1 but the add-on window hangs when I click on Options. But that issue aside, and I don't know if what I'm seeing now is an effect of this add-on or not, but if you take a link to a youtube video like this: https www. youtube.com/watch?v=gneBUA39mnI I get a blank box in FF2 with no player controls. But if I alter the URL like this: https www. youtube.com/v/gneBUA39mnI I get a full-window video presentation, with sample image overlay, with full playback controls, and with the option to change resolution to 480, 720 and 1080, with the default being 480.

>What drivers did you use to get it working? The computer with the Audigy-2 card hasn't been used in a while. I had to locate the hard drive. I must have had a hard time with the sound card because I have a folder called "Audigy drivers" with a bunch of files in them that I must have been mixing and matching, seeing what works. This is what's in that folder: ========== CTAC32~1 SYS 134,656 03-25-03 1:11p ctac32k-1.sys CTAC32~2 SYS 646,128 04-06-04 10:24a ctac32k-2.sys CTSFM2~1 SYS 135,696 03-25-03 1:13p ctsfm2k-1.sys CTPRXY~1 SYS 6,144 03-25-03 1:13p ctprxy2k-1.sys CTPRXY~2 SYS 6,096 10-08-03 10:08a ctprxy2k-2.sys CTPRXY~3 SYS 6,096 03-16-04 4:36a ctprxy2k-3.sys CTPRXY~4 SYS 7,168 08-11-06 2:45p ctprxy2k-4.sys CTSFM2~2 SYS 130,288 10-08-03 10:09a ctsfm2k-2.sys CTSFM2~3 SYS 130,384 03-16-04 4:37a ctsfm2k-3.sys CTSFM2~4 SYS 143,872 08-11-06 2:45p ctsfm2k-4.sys EMUPIA~1 SYS 144,736 03-25-03 1:13p emupia2k-1.sys EMUPIA~2 SYS 145,488 10-13-03 5:42p emupia2k-2.sys EMUPIA~3 SYS 147,088 03-16-04 4:37a emupia2k-3.sys EMUPIA~4 SYS 78,336 08-11-06 2:45p emupia2k-4.sys HA10KX~1 SYS 850,880 04-03-03 3:59a ha10kx2k-1.sys HA10KX~2 SYS 904,784 02-24-04 12:17p ha10kx2k-2.sys HA10KX~3 SYS 952,144 06-16-04 3:47a ha10kx2k-3.sys HA10KX~4 SYS 766,976 08-11-06 2:45p ha10kx2k-4.sys HAP16V~1 SYS 142,752 04-01-03 1:07p haP16v2k-1.sys HAP16V~2 SYS 148,432 10-21-03 5:23p haP16v2k-2.sys HAP16V~3 SYS 150,160 05-03-04 7:48a haP16v2k-3.sys HAP16V~4 SYS 154,112 08-11-06 2:45p hap16v2k-4.sys HAP17V~1 SYS 180,224 08-11-06 2:45p hap17v2k-1.sys CTDLAN~1 DAT 200,089 03-25-03 1:37p ctdlang-1.dat CTDLAN~2 DAT 217,272 10-21-03 5:54p ctdlang-2.dat CTDLAN~3 DAT 181,922 03-16-04 4:50a ctdlang-3.dat CTSTAT~1 DAT 270,745 03-25-03 1:27p CTSTATIC-1.DAT CTSTAT~2 DAT 298,971 10-21-03 5:47p CTSTATIC-2.DAT CTSTAT~3 DAT 313,207 05-03-04 8:10a CTSTATIC-3.DAT COMMON~1 DLL 114,688 03-25-03 1:19p commonfx-1.dll COMMON~2 DLL 114,688 10-06-03 2:44p commonfx-2.dll COMMON~3 DLL 118,868 03-16-04 4:37a commonfx-3.dll COMMON~4 DLL 87,552 08-11-06 2:48p commonfx-4.dll CTAUDF~1 DLL 446,464 04-11-03 10:50a ctaudfx-1.dll CTAUDF~2 DLL 585,728 02-18-04 3:38p ctaudfx-2.dll CTAUDF~3 DLL 692,306 03-16-04 4:38a ctaudfx-3.dll CTAUDF~4 DLL 536,576 08-11-06 2:48p ctaudfx-4.dll CTSBLF~1 DLL 598,016 04-11-03 10:52a ctsblfx-1.dll CTSBLF~2 DLL 606,208 03-16-04 4:39a ctsblfx-2.dll CTSBLF~3 DLL 548,352 08-11-06 2:48p ctsblfx-3.dll CTAUD2~1 SYS 502,160 04-11-03 6:32a ctaud2k-1.sys CTAUD2~2 SYS 366,352 02-23-04 3:11p ctaud2k-2.sys CTAUD2~3 SYS 371,376 06-23-04 5:36p ctaud2k-3.sys CTAUD2~4 SYS 371,376 10-18-04 3:21p ctaud2k-4.sys CTAUD2~5 SYS 374,032 10-20-04 9:06a ctaud2k-5.sys CTAUD2~6 SYS 499,584 08-11-06 2:45p ctaud2k-6.sys ==================== In terms of what's in the windows/system32/drivers folder, this is what's there (that's newer than 1999 file-date): ==================== MSDV SYS 55,936 10-21-00 2:26a msdv.sys BDASUP SYS 4,992 10-21-00 2:30a bdasup.sys MPE SYS 13,984 10-21-00 2:30a mpe.sys STREAMIP SYS 13,664 10-21-00 2:30a streamip.sys NDISIP SYS 7,424 10-21-00 2:30a ndisip.sys SLIP SYS 10,016 10-21-00 2:30a slip.sys NABTSFEC SYS 86,016 10-21-00 2:30a nabtsfec.sys CCDECODE SYS 15,264 10-21-00 2:30a ccdecode.sys WSTCODEC SYS 18,208 10-21-00 2:30a wstcodec.sys KS SYS 117,056 11-07-00 3:16p KS.SYS MSKSSRV SYS 6,368 11-07-00 3:16p MSKSSRV.SYS MSPCLOCK SYS 4,800 11-07-00 3:16p MSPCLOCK.SYS STREAM SYS 41,920 11-07-00 3:16p STREAM.SYS MSTEE SYS 4,896 11-07-00 3:16p mstee.sys SWENUM SYS 3,456 11-07-00 3:16p SWENUM.SYS CTGAME SYS 12,160 12-30-02 10:53a CTGAME.SYS PFMODNT SYS 15,840 03-05-03 3:07p PFMODNT.SYS CTOSS2K SYS 178,672 10-08-03 10:06a CTOSS2K.SYS CTOSS9X SYS 177,520 03-16-04 4:36a CTOSS9X.SYS CTPRXY2K SYS 6,096 03-16-04 4:36a CTPRXY2K.SYS CTSFM2K SYS 130,384 03-16-04 4:37a CTSFM2K.SYS EMUPIA2K SYS 147,088 03-16-04 4:37a EMUPIA2K.SYS CTAC32K SYS 646,128 04-06-04 10:24a ctac32k.sys HAP16V2K SYS 150,160 05-03-04 7:48a HAP16V2K.SYS HAP17V2K SYS 147,696 05-03-04 7:49a HAP17V2K.SYS HA10KX2K SYS 952,144 06-16-04 3:47a HA10KX2K.SYS CTAUD2K SYS 374,032 10-20-04 9:06a ctaud2k.sys USBPORT SYS 174,916 06-23-05 1:59p USBPORT.SYS USBEHCI SYS 28,992 06-23-05 1:59p USBEHCI.SYS USBHUB20 SYS 67,568 06-23-05 2:00p USBHUB20.SYS CTDVDA2K SYS 340,704 11-10-05 5:06p CTDVDA2K.SYS =================== I know some of those are Creative drivers and stuff. If you want to know more details about a specific file, let me know. If there are files somewhere else that isin't in the above list, let me know.

I have an Audigy-2 card (circa 2002) that sez model # SB0240. Is this similar to Audigy ZS card?

Opera 12.02 will play this youtube link as-is on my win-98 system: https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZewmkqygDes Although I do notice for some weeks now that Opera playback of youtube video's are not smooth (maybe 3 or 4 frames per second, even when set to 360 resolution) and sometimes just pause indefinately during playback. Before pressing play, a static frame/image from the video is displayed. If I add &nohtml5=1 to the end such that the URL becomes: https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZewmkqygDes&nohtml5=1 I get a black screen (no static image) with a red Play button in the middle of the screen and no player controls at the bottom. If I press the play button, the black screen turns into static (like you would see on a TV tuned to a blank channel) and the message "An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: L1CUhW6vVA7jiW2n)". Before I started typing this reponse, I tried playing the first link on FF 2 and got the static frame with full player controls. I press play and get the screen with static fuzz. I've tried it again just now, and it is playing! This is the first time in weeks I can remember FF2 playing a youtube video. It's playing right now in the back ground (on ff2) as I type this using Opera 12. The highest selectable resolution is 360. I had also tried the second link (with &nohtml5=1 added to the end) on FF2 and it didn't work. The screen is initially black (no static video frame) and the play controls show up on the bottom. I press play and immediate get static with error message (An error has occurred. Please try again later). Opera 12 says it's using flash version 11,7,700,257 and the small flash test video plays in a small window on that page: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ FF2 says it's using flash version 10,3,183,86 and the bouncing red box short flash animation video plays fine (but the advertising box that appears after the animation is a blank window in FF2, but the ad does show up on Opera 12.02).

There are times when I connect cameras, routers or other devices on my local lan that I don't always remember what their IP address is. So I resort to using programs like "Advanced IP Scanner" to do a scan and show what IP's appear to be in use. I've also written a dos batch file that performs 1 ping on each of the 254 IP addresses and pipes the result to a text file. In both cases, if I have some audio streaming from the internet being played by VLC, or I have a web-cam window open (low-bandwidth, 1 frame per second) while I'm doing these scans, that the audio streaming or the webcam feed will drop out. Is there some max_number_of_connections thing that I'm hitting on win-98? Is there some registry entries that I can mess with?

>Windows 9x will crash with more than 512MB of RAM Don't you mean that *during installation* Win-9x will crash if the system has more than 512 mb ram, but after installation the amount of ram can almost always be increased to 1 gb with the correct editing of the win.ini file? > Windows 9x will not use Native IDE SATA controllers/drives without a paid patch Don't you mean to say that if win-98 sata drivers are available for the given controller chip (as is the case with at least the Silicon Image 3112/3114 chips) then that means win-98 *will not* be using ESDI_506.pdr (but will be using some other 32-bit driver) when the SATA controller is set to Native/SATA mode in the bios? (in other words, for at least the 3112/3114 chips, Win-98 is fully compatible with SATA controllers that are set to native/sata mode in the system bios because there are available win-98 drivers for said chips).

> I want to build a powerful retro PC that will have dual boot, XP and 98SE. Look into the Asrock 4core DUAL-VSTA and DUAL-SATA2 motherboards. Based on VIA chipset, there are win-98 drivers for everything except HD-audio. Win-98 drivers for SATA controller means you can set large hard drives to native/sata mode and you won't see the 137gb drive-size limit. Those boards have PCIe *and* AGP card slots so it will take either type of video card, and will take DDR or DDR2 ram. These are socket-775 boards. You'll probably have to look on ebay for them. These boards were sold new about 9 or 10 years ago.

I can pick up a new ASRock G41C-GS R2.0 (Socket 775 Intel G41 + ICH7) for $85. It's an interesting board - it has 2 DIMM slots that will take either DDR2 or DDR3. I don't know where it ranks in terms of socket-775 performance (if near the top I might pick it up just to make a nice XP system with the many 775 CPU's I have). But I'm really interested if win-98 will run on this thing. On-board audio, ethernet and graphics I can do without if necessary, but SATA and USB and DMA and other chipset stuff I'm going to want working drivers. I haven't been paying attention to where Win-98 is at after ICH5 so I don't know what's possible and what isin't.

I'm not talking about KB's that do telemetry or win-10 preparation/downloading (those are "bad" for other reasons). Is there a list of KB's that have technical faults that MS would rather you not install? Of the over 700 MSU files that I have, I'd like to pull out the defective ones.

The Win-7 SP1 32-bit image that I created that had the largest number of KB's rolled in had 577 KB's. So for now I am comparing that list of 577 to your list. Your list has 456 KB's. Given that, it's somewhat surprising that there are only 167 KB's that are in common to both lists. There are 410 kb's in my list that are not in yours. There are 289 kb's in your list that are not in mine. My list of 577 includes 3125574 (the convienence roll-up). Your list does not - but I'm not sure the wmic command will show it. I also do not have any kb updates higher than 3173040 (which is approx. August 2016). You have 9 KB's higher than that, which probably became available since Sept. 2016. I have a separate list of 96 "bad" kb's that I will not install for one reason or another. You have 23 KB's that are on that list. Here they are: 976932 2505438 2506928 2545698 2592687 2660075 2670838 2726535 2840149 2882822 2923545 2970228 2994023 2999226 3078667 3086255 3092627 3093983 3102429 3107998 3118401 3124280 3167679 One more thing. What I consider to be my "standard" Win-7 install image was built using 279 KB's (not 577). It does not include any "bad" kb's. It is up-to-date as of Sept 1, 2016. I don't think there have been many new updates / fixes since then. Maybe a dozen. Your installation of 410 kb's seems high. I don't think you would have such a high number if you performed a new install today and accepted most "Important" and *some* optional KB's that Windows Update would offer you.

Open a command prompt (as administrator just to make sure this works) and enter this: wmic qfe list full /format:texttablewsys > "C:\hotfix.txt" This will dump a list of all kb's, updates, hotpatches and fixes to the file c:\hotfit.txt. You can change the path and file-name to somewhere else if you want - just make sure you can find the file. Upload the file here as an attachment. I'll compare your KB list to my own lists and see if I can spot any differences.

About 6 months ago I was working with RT7 Lite to incorporate all known KB updates into a base-level Win-7 Ultimate SP1 32-bit CD image. At one point I had about 550 KB's rolled into the image (far more than what would be offered by MS during WU update sessions at the time). When I began using finished/installed OS on a test system, I was seeing the above behavior (getting stupid message when renaming or creating new folders, and the issue with Libraries). So I began to back-track and created new installation images with fewer and fewer KB's rolled in until I finally narrowed it down to 958559. Just that one single KB, when rolled into a virgin Win-7 SP1 Ultimate 32-bit CD image, caused these issues.

I have found that kb 958559 causes this behavior on Win-7 SP1 Ultimate 32-bit: - not showing (not having) any Libraries - not being able to create new libraries, and - giving an "Item not found" message when creating new folders or renaming existing ones.

Just downloaded USB Device Tree Viewer 3.0.8 (http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/32197-usb_device_tree_viewer) and tried to run on my system with Kex 4.5.2015.11 and I get USBTreeview.exe is lined to missing export cm_get_devnode_status. Even tried setting it to Win-2k compatibility. Any ideas if this can be made to work under Win-98?

I guess in these situations when an ebay vendor is selling the same key over and over gain and MS sees these validation attempts from different IP's and black-lists the key, that the key sequence never finds it's way to the internet by way of discussion, etc. If the computer is OEM or brand-name then there's a good chance that you'd be able to create an installation ISO that is tied to some OEM codes in the BIOS that define what windows license the computer had when it left the factory.

>Well, bad news! > > I've been told by Microsoft that the product key that was used to activate Windows 7 over the phone was blocked Put part of your key into a google search and see if the entire key come up in the results. That should tell you if the key has been widely circulated.

RT7 Lite seems to work. I've used it to create win7-sp1 rollups with over 500 kb files and other stuff (like IE10 and .net). And by the way, there are some kb's inside the convenience roll-up that are "bad" by most measures - hence why I've manually rolled in only the good kb's and none of the bad ones.

> Perhaps mouse B itself is faulty? Could be a loose contact that just about makes a connection in the first port but doesn't in the second port? But I get the guitar-sound when mouse B is plugged into or out of either port. So Windows must be able to see it being plugged in and unplugged, so there must be some communication with mouse B in either port. I define "working" when I move the mouse and the arrow moves on-screen. The led or laser light is visible/on when mouse B is plugged into either port.

This laptop is a core i7 and dates to I think 2011 and I don't think it has USB3 - I think the only way to give it USB3 is through a docking station or slide out the CD drive and slide in a USB3 card. But none of that should matter because I have one mouse (mouse A) that works in both ports and another mouse (mouse B) that works in only one of them. Windows gives off that sound (like a guitar being plucked) when either mouse is plugged into or removed from either port.

Got a Dell laptop I use as a test system when I create new win-7 Ultimate SP1 32-bit install images using RT7. So it doesn't get a lot of use. There's a couple of corded USB mice that I use on the system depending where I happen to set it up and turn it on. I notice that one mouse works on either of 2 USB ports on the right side of the laptop, while the second mouse only works on one of the ports. The laptop gives the usual tone-chime sound when either mouse is plugged in and removed from either port. Any idea what's going on here? I thought that things "Just Worked (tm)" with Windoze 7?

In November 2015 I was messing around with a Lenovo M50 thinkcenter and I downloaded 2ajz51usa.exe and 2pjy25usa.exe which were supposed to be primarily bios updates. The only place I'm seeing dnemac.vxd on my system is in c:\windows\system and c:\2ajt51a.doc (yes that's a folder). I wouldn't have run those exe files on this system unless I couldn't unpack them with winrar, and I see that winrar indicates that it can unpack them. For the folder c:\2ajt51a.doc to have been created, it must have been done programatically because I normally wouldn't unpack new or temp stuff on my c drive. I also see that a few days later I downloaded lenovo-drivers-update-utility.zip which contains lenovo-drivers-update-utility.exe which doesn't unpack with winrar or 7zip so it's quite possible I ran that file on this system to get at the files. A search for "winproxy" turns up no files or folders containing that string. A search for ipsecdrv.vxd turns up only in my c:\windows\system folder, which again is unusual to not see it anywhere else. The file seems to be somewhat rare - there are about 600 search results for "ipsecdrv" (most of them seem to be ipsecdrv.sys) and only 30 search results for ipsecdrv.vxd (and only 2 results when ipsecdrv.vxd is put in quotes, one of those results being this thread). So beyond the mystery of why I have those 2 drivers installed and active on my system, there remains the question what this "Mac Shim / Enhancer Adapter" is doing on my system - what new or strange ability/capability does my system have because it's there? Regarding "ipsec" itself, I see that in 2013 I installed something called "Microsoft IPSec VPN" which the config utility lets me set either an automatic or a specific certificate for IPSec authentication (I have it set to Auto) or use a pre-shared key, and to enable IPSec logging (which is doing). Why I installed this, I don't know. Probably to see if it would help FF-2 browsing experience. As for whether or not Win-98 has (or doesn't have?) a driver specifically for IPSec (and if "ipsec" is part of the file name) it would seem the answer is no. This file I have - IPSecDrv.VXD, made by "SafeNet", seems to be win-98 compatible.

I was having problems with a usb thumb drive so I started my win-98 system in safe mode and went through device manager blowing away anything USB-related. I have a USB keyboard, USB mouse and a USB-attached multi-SD-card reader as my only USB devices (other than what-ever thumb drive I happen to plug in). In going through device manager I saw, under Network Adapters, my ethernet card (Davicom 9102/A) and something called "Deterministic Networks Mac Shim" (it was shown with the same mini-icon as the Davicom card). I don't recall seeing that before. I leave it alone for now. Maybe it's got something to do with the Win-98 Personal Web Server I installed a few months ago (which I'm not running any more and have disabled via msconfig). I reboot and run the nusb36 thing and maybe reboot a few more times and everything is back to normal (USB-wise). I can read the thumb drive now. But something's wrong - no internet. I check - yes, the cable is still plugged in. I want to bring up network properties - but Network Neighborhood has disappeared from my desktop. That "Mac Shim" thing is also gone from device manager. Turns out I have no installed network protocals. ? I add TCP/IP and do all the settings and re-boot. Upon restart, I get a message that "Deterministic Networks Enhancer has been re-installed because TCP/IP has been re-installed" and I have to re-boot. um, ok, I reboot, and I have network access again. I'm looking at what this Deterministic thing is, it's using DNEMAC.VXD (Deterministic Networks Enhancer Adapter, file date 8/15/2001) and IPSecDrv.VXD (Safenet IPsec plugin, Safenet VPN client, file-date 5/3/2002) and maybe a few other files. A web-search for this stuff seems to always point to Cisco and/or VPN stuff. I've never set up VPN software on this system. If this is for the Win-98 PWS, how can the files be dated after 1999? If this isin't for PWS, what could it be for?

Was wondering what was the last or best netbook-sized PC that had good to complete XP driver support.

These servers have been running on BX-440 chipsets with P2 or P3 800-850 mhz CPU since about '99. Gigabyte motherboards (with on-board SCSI that isin't used any more). 768 and 1 gb installed ram. Newer dlink pci ethernet cards (circa 2005 or 2006) - running 1000 mbps (yea, the cards had NT drivers out-of-the-box).