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When using WDM Audio Drivers in 98SE/ME, the manufacturers of audio drivers will always use builtin sbemul.sys SB emulator driver for the MS-DOS window inside Windows. That's what Microsoft told audio driver manufacturers to do. The sbemul.sys emulator driver is far from perfect, having many, many issues like those described above. I was never satisfied with its capabilities. This only applies to DOS window inside Windows, not real DOS mode where you need to provide proper DOS audio drivers if they are available. When using VXD Audio Drivers in 95/98SE/ME, manufacturer of the audio driver will provide their own SB emulator driver, which you can usually see as an additional device in Device Manager. They should have better SB emulation, but it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. VXD drivers are usually called Windows 95 and Windows 98 non-SE/Gold drivers. With AC'97 cards, you can try Realtek Windows 95 (VXD) drivers if the device ID is supported by it: https://soggi.org/drivers/realtek.htm There are also VIA VXD drivers available on the internet if you have a VIA AC'97 device. Sadly, Joaquim's device ID is not available in those so he can't use them. I've checked it. If you want somewhat adequate DOS sound support under Windows 98 SE, ditch WDM and go for VXD drivers if available. Not in this case. If you want better DOS sound support, ditch Windows all together and find real-mode DOS drivers for your audio card if available. Not in this case. If you want the best DOS sound support, get a real ISA Sound Blaster card He can't since he's using a laptop. His best option, if his laptop had a printer port, would be to use OPL3LPT (expensive) https://www.serdashop.com/OPL3LPT. His laptop (Acer Aspire 1690) sadly doesn't have one. I know Joaquim is very determined to get the maximum out of his laptop under Windows 98, and I admire his dedication, but he must understand that his laptop has too many issues that can;t be resolved and that his laptop is not suitable for DOS gaming, especially with regards to sound. It's just too new for these things. If you have the budget, get a cheap Pentium 4 Socket 478 PC and put a cheap Sound Blaster Live SB0100/SB0060 PCI card there and follow this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x6T_OWT0WU You'll be happy. If you want a laptop, get one that is older and has a DOS compatible sound card (basically anything that is NOT AC'97 or HD Audio!) I myself also would like for everything to work under Windows 98, but even I have to draw a line somewhere, and believe me, I was as determined as Joaquim!

This is one of many works of the famous Neil Cicierega, nothing wrong with that or him, it's all just fiction and art and nothing that the author truly believes in, chill out

Never had any issues installing XP from USB using WinSetupFromUSB. Choose your USB Stick, check 'Auto Format', select NTFS. Check Windows XP, point to unpacked XP setup files, and go!

Seeing as Windows ME does not have this issue, it might be possible to actually fix it for 98SE. But yes, buying the cheapest router from TP-Link or something, dedicated only to 98SE machines, is a better and more flexible solution. Used cheap routers are abundant and cost not much more than a few bags of chips and some soda

Are you using VBEMP or the stock VGA.DRV driver? Try using SVGA driver from Win3.1 in Safe Mode like here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/69569-improving-windows-98-safe-mode Can you try a different motherboard?

It seems VirtualBox authors are not keen on addressing the issue, and just tell users to use AC'97 on Windows XP: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=38886 https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16609 Can you provide the device ID for the HD Audio that VirtualBox emulates?

Latest AMD GPU supported on XP is HD 7970 / 8970 OEM / R9 280X (all three have same device ID).

Take a look here: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Commodore_64_emulators As for the issue in topic, try putting all files from all disks to one giant folder and install from that folder using DOS...unless that's what you tried already. I know this trick works for Windows 3.1, not sure at all about older versions. You can also try different Windows 1 versions from WinWorld for example, maybe they behave differently. (like 1.04) I don't have any meaningful experience with Windows prior to 3.1, as there's no practical reason to use anything older than 3.1...unless someone really wants to stick to the 8088

Use 86Box or PCem for having fun with such old Windows versions. Both programs can emulate period-correct real hardware that Windows 1.01 will be happy to work with. This will make for a much better and fun experience than just forcing it to run on a real hardware. Also look here for some fun you can have with Windows 1: http://toastytech.com/guis/win1x2x.html

DOSSOUND is not a DOS driver for AC'97/HD Audio! It's just a custom interface/API to play WAV files (with example programs included), it doesn't work with any existing DOS programs as it does not provide any Soundblaster/OPL interface that programs can use. Useless in your case. There are no DOS drivers for AC'97/HD Audio! If there's no option to add some kind of a sound card like on a laptop (and if there's no LPT port to use something like OPL2LPT), best bet is to...use DOSBox under Windows 98 SE (as stupid as this idea sounds, I know )

I see that you've bought a wifi card that I recommended. It's weird that you don't have any networks listed. As others said, try the new wifi card using Windows 2000 or XP and see if the networks show up there. You can also try Debian from the Linux side of things. The "File is not installed" text in Device Manager is normal, I have it as well and Wi-Fi works fine regardless. Try also this older drivers for Windows 9x and see if the networks show up in Odyssey, maybe the latest one doesn't work with all Atheros cards... Also, have you connected the antennas to the WiFi card? Driver.zip

http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/apoio/iexplorer/ie60sp1/ie60sp1.zip This seems to be a Portuguese version of IE6 SP1, try it.

I haven't found a solution for the long startup time when a USB pendrive is connected. Is it really stuck for you, or just takes a long time to start up? I haven't encountered USB pendrives making 98SE unbootable.

https://www.allbootdisks.com/download/98.html https://www.allbootdisks.com/download/me.html Use the "No Ramdrive" versions.

In Windows ME, you need to use MSConfig to set up DOS keyboard, there's no keyb command on ME, read here: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/6029-dos-program-in-windows-me-problem/ Check if Spear of Destiny works fine on 98SE.

I never bothered with Min/MaxFileCache. PATCHMEM and ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 is enough, regardless of how much RAM you have.

INF files which are used to install drivers can work on multiple Windows versions (one INF file can support 98 SE, ME, 2000 and XP for example). This doesn't mean that the driver itself, which are the SYS files, will work. Intel forgot to disable support for Windows 98 SE/ME for the 2200BG in the INF file. Windows is naive and will process any INF file and its corresponding SYS files, as long as the INF is valid, even if SYS files won't work. Since the SYS file was not made for ME, it fails to load it, that's what causes the yellow ! icon.

Installing (or reinstalling) IE6 should fix this, someone else had this issue before: http://www.techtalk.cc/viewtopic.php?p=18608#p18608

Just because a system file exists, doesn't mean that it has all the exports (functions) that a newer program expects from it. System files retained same names, but had new things added on it. Look here: http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/wiki/VLC_Media_Player

Yep, this card should work fine with these drivers: http://shell.stare.pro/~mrmateczko/Atheros_Wi-Fi_Win98SE_Latest.zip These are Atheros drivers I've found and packaged since they have been removed now from original place.

Two most common issues regarding long boot up times in 98SE: 1. DHCP - you must assign the IP address of the device manually in Network control panel rather than using DHCP as that cause a long delay in boot. I think this was fixed in Windows ME, but I'm not 100% sure. 2. Leaving USB flash drives plugged in when the unofficial USB drivers are installed. As for the shutdown problem, you can try these things: 1. Installing the Windows 98 SE Shutdown Supplement. 2. Reinstalling Windows 98 SE with the /p i switch to avoid installing buggy ACPI which may cause problems with shutdown. 3. If you have NVIDIA GPU, using the Shutdown Fix. 4. Using different unofficial USB drivers.

This is a Windows 2000/XP driver, not for 98SE, it will most likely not work. You're mistaking Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 (which is 802.11b only, useless for today's Wi-Fi networks) that HAS Windows 98 drivers with the WiFi card that you have which is the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG (that is 802.11g, usable with today's modern 2,4GHz WPA2 Wi-Fi networks) that DOESN'T have Windows 98 drivers. Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG was a very popular Wi-Fi card back in the day included in many laptops. Many people tried using it with Windows 98, no one succeed. As I've said, ditch that Wi-Fi card and replace it with something like NKRCM9 or a similar one that has the Atheros 5004/5213 chipset. That's what I'm using and Odyssey Client works flawlessly with it.

Different link: http://lonecrusader.x10host.com/fix95cpu.html I think it should be included in the first post?

That's not a wifi icon, that's the View Channels button linked to the Channel Bar and channels in general, heavily promoted with IE4 that came with 98 First Edition, 95 OSR2.5 and as a free download for 95. It was removed in 98 Second Edition from the Quick Launch, as the focus on the channels and channel bar seems to largely disappear once IE5 came. 98 SE does not show Channel Bar at the desktop by default for example.

Format the hard drive from the Win98 CD with the /S command so the hard drive becomes bootable with the DOS version from the Win98 CD. Make sure to check in FDISK if the partition is set to active. Then, copy the win98 folder from CD to the hard drive, and run the setup from the hard drive and not the CD. If there is still the same error, plug the hard drive to main PC (or in any other way) put HIMEMX.EXE on the root of it: https://sourceforge.net/projects/himemx/ and put DEVICE=C:\HIMEMX.EXE to CONFIG.SYS (create CONFIG.SYS if it doesn't exist). If HIMEMX.EXE doesn't solve the problem, try with the XMGR.SYS from here: http://optimizr.dyndns.org/dos/drivers.html