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EAX is an audio enhancement technology used in many games, if the sound drivers can use it. Also, I don't know if the ATI drivers will work on the PCI version of the GPU. But, you can try them: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/archive/radeonaiw-98me

It's just my pet peeve to see the ScanDisk popping all the time and having to press Enter over and over again. But you can keep it if you don't find it as irritating as I do. It's a personal thing. Just had to throw it out. You specs are totally fine, Q242975 is installed by the USB Mass Storage drivers, it installs the Safe Remove thingy. I still think IE6 is the culprit here, you can try IEradicator http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html For a different browser, you can try Opera 12.02, 10.63, or SeaMonkey.

Hardware specs? OS version? Any installed Unofficial Service Packs? Do you have IE6 installed? We can't help if you tell only brief information.

Don't install the Service Pack if it causes problems. I began to dislike SP's for Win9x in general. They might be good, but not for everyone/not for every system language. Also, to minimize any problems with wallpapers on Win98SE, use .BMP only. You can easely convert .JPG to .BMP using Paint or IrfanView.

Many mobos like ASRock's P4i65G (and other mobos with chipsets like Intel 865/VIA P4M800) have an AHCI mode as well as Win98 drivers, so it's not completely useless.

Is the ESDI_506.PDR working correctly in your experiments? Is this what you mean by Protected Mode?

First off, have you set the SATA mode to Compatible in BIOS? Secondly, limit the available ram to 512MB with system.ini. Thirdly, try using some patches to fix >137GB bugs.

R. Loew also has USB Mass Storage drivers for Win95 (they are free): RLUSB.ZIP Don't know how they work, but it's good to have more options

Your system isn't exactly good for browsing, maybe go with an old Opera, or K-Meleon. No need for KernelEx for those. There is no need to install any Unofficial Service Packs, if it runs fine. Just install all the drivers and these stuff: - Win98SE Shutdown Supplement (which is kinda of a must) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/239887 - USB Mass Drivers from here http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php - DX 8.0 should be fine for most games from 98 era http://www.falconfly.de/directx.htm - You could also update some system files from WinME, like msimg32.dll, or the defrag/scanfisk stuff. Someone can add some more tips. The rest of the updates are mostly no-more-important vulnerability patches (who is going to attack 98se computers in today's websites in 2015?) or hotfixes which are not for every system. Some of them even are BROKEN (like the SYSDM.CPL update, which removes the CPU info in the Summary tab if you install it)

People have been doing similar things since DOSBox port on the Nokia N95: Nothing since of creativity.

I mean the setup which you start from MS-DOS, this one: I want to replace the blue background with a custom picture (I know in Win95 it can be either 2 colors like the original background, or MS 16 color palette)

In WIN95, all I have to do is replace the 640x480x2 "108" bitmap inside WINSETUP.BIN and that;s it. You can even make the background (and setup) in 1024x768, but that's for another topic. But how to add a background during MS-DOS setup in Win98 in place of the blue colour? There's no bitmap in WINSETUP.BIN in Win98. Is it overtaken by the SUWIN.EXE (or other file)?

Your Audio is HD Audio, there's no HD Audio drivers. Highest end NVIDIA cards which work is the 6000 series. PCI Buses are nothing to worry, they don't do anything.

Seems logical...why didn't I though of that? It works, thanks.

I want to delete some files using an .inf file, and the wininit.ini, so I add something like this: [foo] UpdateInis=ini [ini] wininit.ini,rename,,"NUL=C:\FOO1.EXE" wininit.ini,rename,,"NUL=C:\FOO2.EXE" wininit.ini,rename,,"NUL=C:\FOO3.EXE" However, only the last entry will be written to wininit.ini, so only FOO3.EXE will be deleted. Only thing I could find on the internet about this was these posts: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32/kH_5_FGBEJQ So is it a limitation of INF? If I add all these commands manually, then it works fine.

No one mentioned capacitors on the mobo? See if they are in any way bulging.

Here's debug from Win98: http://pastebin.com/2w4dLKdh Here's debug from Win7 x64, I've tried to force it to use my integrated Intel, instead on NVIDIA's GPU (I have a laptop with two GPU's), but I don't know how: http://pastebin.com/4URTSnJ4 Here's debug from XP: http://pastebin.com/R3TnXVvX Here's debug from XP without themes: http://pastebin.com/0KS668vd While there are errors in Win7 debug, due to NVIDIA stuff...I don't see anything wrong in XP...yet it doesn't work. Not even in compatibility mode.

I want to run the all nice and beautiful "welcome.exe" in my Win7 x64(can try XP x86 as well if desired), but can't do it, does the EXE needs patching? It simply does nothing when I run it. I do copy all the needed files...

You can't just edit inf's in other to make a driver working...I had a (somewhat) similar story here with my Realtek LAN here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/172954-why-this-inf-is-not-recognised/

Ain't some of these options hardcoded into explorer.exe/shell32.dll? Use ResHacker to edit them.

I think it's hardcoded in Io.sys somewhere, I've been reading: Description of the Windows 95 Startup Process , and it says: So, a hex edit of Io.sys would be needed then...something way beyond my knowledge.

This combined with WallpaperStyle=2 did make the wallpaper stretch, yay! About the sense of disabling .da0 files...let's just say, this has something to do with it.

Stretching image in a image editor is a workaround, not a fix. I tried creating folders with the same name, but Win95 after a reboot then renamed the folders to System.da1 and User.da1, and created .da0 all over again, how lovely Autoruns (oldest version I could find) wouldn't work. However, I do have a view of the whole registry (via regedit export), and there's nothing about backup anywhere. WallpaperStyle was one of the first things I've tried, it doesn't work. I've tried running msconfig.exe from 98SE, but didn't work.

1. How to prevent creating the registry backup at startup? (system.da0 and user.da0) 2. How to stretch the wallpaper without using Plus 95? I've tried common tricks, but nothing worked...

Some of us don't earn much...nor have good exchange rates... Maybe make it free in the next 5 years?