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Wow, you have much better scores than my 98SE rig, which scored 12462 in 3DMark03, and 22571 in 3DMark2001 SE, but I have a GeForce 6800GT, AMD Athlon 64 3000+ s754, and 1GB RAM. As for the error, try launching 3DMark03 with the -nosysteminfo switch, and also try to limit the RAM to 1GB, also try the VCACHE fix if not installed already.

There's nothing we can do. No one has enough skills to port a modern open-source browser to 98SE. It will get worse and worse with each day. It's sad to see newer Flash Player not working. It's a miracle it worked up to version 21. About no KernelEx, there's no reason to not use KernelEx on 98SE anymore. About WebM/HTML5 - it's slow and underwhelming, even in my high end 98SE rig. Goes back to someone porting a more modern browser. Even Facebook broke some time ago in Opera 11/12, the top bar after logging in is displayed wrong, and it wasn't a couple months ago. I won't let 98SE die no matter what.

Go for it, it really is that good of a card.

I measured the performance based on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units GeForce3 Ti200 has the same amount of Pixel and Texel fillrate as the GeForce Go 7300. The GeForce Go 7300 scores about 11-12k in 3DMark 2001SE, which is adequate for a Geforce3 Ti200 card with a CPU like the one in your laptop. Ti 4200 128MB is faster than the FX 5700LE. And the 64MB variant is even faster, as the memory is clocked higher on the 64MB variant, and they put better memory chips on the 64MB variant, as they can overclock more than on the 128MB variant. Try getting the 64MB variant, or any of the other GeForce4 Ti cards, they are very good, especially for 98SE.

It's not about the HD Audio driver, it's about the HD Audio Bus driver, which we need to make it enumerate a new device, to install the HD Audio driver on it...under 98SE :/ Soon, I will have the opportunity to test on my only PC (laptop ASUS X75VB) 98SE/XP stuff, and maybe I could help with getting HD Audio to work.

GeForce Go 7300 has the same performance as the GeForce3 Ti200, with DX9 support put there just for the show. Needless to say, it's nothing great, especially for 3DMark03. Try older games, it should not be that bad. Also, I don't like how people still say the 82.69 drivers are unofficial. They are official, made by NVIDIA, the only unofficial part is the INF file which has the VEN/DEV for the 7xxx series included and CoolBits added. That's it. No one coded the 98SE support for the 7xxx series other than NVIDIA. Here are the original 82.69 drivers: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2054/~/windows-98%2Fme-resolution-support-for-1440-x-900-and-1680-x-1050 Not to mention, the OpenGL driver in 82.69 is unstable, unlike the 81.98 one. And also, don't bother with anything better from NVIDIA than 6800 Ultra under 98SE. It's not worth it. The latest ATI card working under 98SE - Radeon X850 XT PE is better in 3DMark03 than the 6800 Ultra, and has official drivers. But it doesn't have Shader Model 3.0.

But power management is not something you can "turn off" in the GUI. I always have just one power profile, with everything turned off, and rest of profiles deleted. I guess only then removal of these entries is safe? Besides, why isn't power management stuff not built-in to the kernel, and instead as an autorun command? It seems weird. EDIT: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/188213 This article is interesting, it mentions So..Powrprof.dll does its job even without these entires? So why are they in the first place...

Opera 12.02 is getting worse and worse with each day. Not to mention, it's not exactly fast, even on a high-end 98SE machine. I think your granny would be better off with Win7 with the classic theme.

This Run and RunServices entry appears in every Win98SE installation, is it needed at all? The system works file without it. What does it even do?

Is this the real .pdb file, and not an one you just made? It seems it's from a Windows 2003 DDK...isn't it too new? And sorry about my post, good luck with your WiFi adventures

There are no drivers for 9x for this WiFi chipset Only for Win2K and newer... There are drivers for 9x for the RTL8187 chipset. Looks like you bought a wrong one, sorry

That's interesting...now we need to know, what files are parsing the INF file, and what the differences are between the 2K and 98SE files. Also, why not do testing under ME? It has more in common with 2K than 98SE.

As of today, running 98SE on such a new computer will get you: -No 2D and 3D acceleration whatsoever with the universal VBEMP driver, which is similar to the VGA.SYS default driver in XP. You will only have good performance at the desktop, that's it. The DOS window might not even work at all. -Slow internet speeds with NDIS2 driver (if it works at all) -SATA with paid patch only, without it, only VERY SLOW 16bit compatible mode disk access, which is again, VERY SLOW! -Up to 4GB available RAM with paid patch only, without it, only 1GB -No HD Audio support whatsoever -With NUSB there is USB 2.0/Flashdrives support. Is it worth it? No. Just get parts which do actually work with 98SE, its fun to do, and not that expensive.

So, the MoBo is an issue with the mouse, oh well :/ Oh yes, I forgot to write this, we would need to combine the HDAUDBUS.SYS and the Win2K .SYS HDA driver from a given manufacturer like Realtek or C-Media. That means hard work for just one family of devices, no chance to create universal driver at all I know there's nothing interesting in the 98SE LAN driver, but look at the 2K/XP one, you can clearly see the two .inf's. Can we use MPXPLAY source code for HDA support? Maybe create a DOS driver that somehow works while running Win98SE...

I have a 98SE PC with an nForce 3 250 chipset, an ASRock K8Upgrade-NF3, and I do not have problems with using a USB mouse, though it depends on the mouse as well. One USB mouse I have glitches out in 98SE setup, the other one runs flawlessly in setup. Both of them work fine when the system is installed. Try a different USB mouse, or use an old PS2 one (I bought a newer PS2 mouse, and it was glycerol as you said :/ ) Back on the HD Audio topic, well...first off, we need to find an example of a 9x driver, which enumerates a different device after installing, if there is one. I noticed that the LAN driver inf for my MoBo for 2K/XP do enumerate a different device which is installed by a second inf, but the 9x driver for the same LAN is just one inf file with one sys and is installed directly. So, we need to create a driver for the bus which is also an audio driver all in one...is it possible to combine HDAUDBUS.SYS and HDAUDIO.SYS? Here are examples on how my LAN drivers are different, maybe it will be helpful, maybe not, there's nothing to lose... LAN2KXP.7z LAN98SE.7z PS. Wait, are you the same user from the ru-board.com? I visit the forum sometimes with a google translate, nice ongoing discussion you have there, good to see there are more 98SE fans than me

https://www.thecollectionbook.info/downloads/TCB_VMware_Drivers.zip

I tried to do something like this myself. And unsurprisingly, got the same results, HDAUDBUS.SYS "worked" but no \HDAUDIO were enumerated... Can the HDAUDBUS.SYS driver be modified in any way, or is that way too difficult/impossible? Are there any HDA devices which do not use the \HDAUDIO enumeration or ALL of them are dependent on the built into Windows HDAUDBUS.SYS? What about PORTCLS.SYS and SYSAUDIO.SYS? Those files are also included in KB888111 for Win2000.

Sadly, above drivers are 2000/XP only, thy are marked wrongly on the site

Try smaller amount of RAM. Try to set the machine as an ISA PC, not a regular PC. Also, try a different CPU mode, or leave out the -cpu switch altogether. Also, try the 0.9.0 version of QEMU for Windows, newer versions are really suited for Linux anyways. I've had great success with the 0.9.0 version and Win95. But the SB16 emulation sucks so choosing another audio card is recommended...even in newest versions to be honest

Ok. So, since I've done that about 100 times, here's the easiest way to install Win98SE on a computer without CD or Floppy, with USB Booting only. 1. Download Rufus from here: https://rufus.akeo.ie/ 2. Insert the USB flashdrive, and select Create a bootable disk using MS-DOS and deselect Create extended label and icon files. 3. Start the formatting. 4. After formatting, copy FDISK.EXE and Win98SE setup files to the flashdrive. 5. Boot from the USB on the other PC. 6. Run "FDISK /ACTOK" and change the current disk to the second one (the first one is the USB flashdrive) 7. Create a partition, and select the partition to be active (very important, and impossible to do without the /ACTOK switch earlier.) 8. Copy Command.com and io.sys from the USB flashdrive to the HDD. The HDD will be the D: drive, the USB flashdrive the C: drive. (copy c:\command.com d: and copy c:\io.sys d:) 9. Make a directory on the D: drive (win98 for example) and copy the Win98SE setup files to that directory. 10. Unplug the USB drive, and reboot. 11. After rebooting, go to the win98 directory. 12. Run "SETUP /IS /IQ /IE /P I" (note the space between P and I. 13. Enjoy the installing from a HDD to the same HDD! /ACTOK solves ALL problems. No need to use any other tools than the standard FDISK. The /P I switch fixes problems with installing and using 98SE, period. It should always be used. The /IS /IQ switches disable ScanDisk so that the setup can continue. The /IE switch disables the Startup Disk creation, since it's useless.

I guess the proper way to deal with this problem is to disable the sound card in the BIOS altogether and equip a PCI soundcard. Or simple not to install the VIA USB 2.0 drivers at all. Try using the NUSB unofficial USB 2.0 drivers here: http://www.mdgx.com/spx/NUSB.EXE

Can you test any other video card? Maybe it is broken....

The 8x.xx uninstallers are broken, I should have mentioned that :/ Weird to see the Direct3D errors, DxDiag works fine with my MX440. I think it might have something to do with the VIA chipset in you motherboard, are all the VIA drivers installed correctly? Especially the GART driver which provides proper AGP support.

I've noticed that in the Device Manager, the driver date listed in the components' driver properties is taken from the modification date of the .INF, not the DriverVer value inside the .INF file, like it does on WinXP. So when I want to modify the INF file while keeping the modified date intact, I would have to use the TOUCH.EXE utility. Is is a normal behaviour or a bug? Why did then driver manufacturers bothered to include DriverVer in Win9x only drivers (not hybrid ones like Realtek AC97 ones)? Does Win95 and WinME behave in the same way? (I know it's purely cosmetic but does get in the way for me at least )

For NVIDIA Geforce 440 MX use ONLY the 45.23 drivers, not other version. This version gives SIGNIFICANTLY better performance and eliminates ANY problems associated with later drivers, especially the 8x.xx drivers. This conclusion is based on my experience with the exact same card. Get them from this direct link: http://http.download.nvidia.com/Windows/45.23/45.23_win9x_english.exe