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Well i received more strange results, i tried to install avast 4.8 first, was gonna test each AV program one at a time like you mentioned, it gave me an error of a missing .dll file MSVCP71.dll, in other words, the program wouldn't even run on the system, i then tried to uninstall it so i can test a different AV program but said an error as occurred while trying to remove avast antivirus, uninstallation has been cancelled. tried to uninstall from safe mode, no difference. I tried to install norton, but it said something that had to do with it being obsolete and that it can't be used anymore, weird huh? i then tried to install outpost firewall 2.1, and yes, i know i shouldn't have done this the same way with norton with multiple AV programs but at this point, it doesn't really matter, it installed but in a sort of weird way, like several times it gave an error of not being able to install, i don't have the exact errors, i think it had something to do with IRQ or something, i don't remember though. restarted the system and it also gave an error, and it too didn't run, when i clicked outpost firewall, it would just have the waiting cursor for a second and then nothing happening several seconds later. With all this said, the only thing that i feel like doing is just wiping the hard drive clean and starting fresh after gathering up enough info. The first signs i suspected that there may be a virus was when i noticed after restarting the system, the MyComputer folder name changed to the name of 133, and i don't know how that would happen, either windows 95 is weird like that and does things like that or it was specifically from a virus. not the system was fine before that, it still crashed randomly and gave fatal exception errors, but i suppose the virus might be responsible for now allowing programs to run properly or work? Do you know why youtube videos don't work though? Could it be related to this virus, or resource problems or some kind of hardware and software conflict or limitation? The last time i used youtube with working videos in 240p with windows 95 was with dell inspiron 8200 using opera 10.63 or firefox 2.0.0.20 with the flash 7 spoof dll file in the plugins folders, the videos played fine a few months ago.

Ha, i get what your saying, the system is using APM, i don't see any ACPI entries in device manager, power management was disabled by default by the bios, seeing that these setups don't really do well with power management settings, specifically for DOS games from what was made known from vogons.org. I'm not sure on why the old wifi card didn't work properly, but i suppose it was a mix of different factors, but i probably won't use that card again, the system isn't perfect, i have to resolve some matters still, i have a feeling the system is infected from a virus(s) and the resource problems / plug and pray relations aren't so nice with it , the system just runs erratically, it will work fine and then crash out of nowhere or freeze where i have no choice to keep restarting the computer, turning off the wifi radio / releasing ip addresses doesn't seem to make a difference really either. i have a few AV programs to test. This can include avast 4.8 which still seemed to get updates not too long ago in 2014 by sdfox who was using it on windows 95, outpost firewall pro 2.1, some norton antivirus program in 2001, etc.

now i swapped out the old tew-228pi wifi card with the cisco 350 wireless lan pci adapter, i changed the positioning of the pci slot too, the pci usb card is in the old wifi card slot and the new wifi card is in the old pci usb card slot now. i did get better results, i was able to get a working driver and also installed the cisco utility, although it doesn't have an option to scan for networks, it just connects to the nearest one with wep/wpa or open wifi which it did for mine. however, i still seem to have resource problems or which i believe have to do with resource problems. i received a blue screen error having to do with a general protection fault and fatal exception relating to some vxd file, what's interesting is at point of the system freezing and restarting the system, scandisk repaired some files, i checked device manager and noticed the wifi card decided to move to irq 5 from irq 3 which it originally was in. web browsing from any browsers was somewhat slow. also, not sure why but youtube the site itself would take extremely long to load with opera 10.63 or would freeze, firefox 2.0.0.20 seemed fine in loading youtube, however both browsers, even with the flash 7 spoof file in the plugin folders would still not bring up the play button or allow playing videos, just a black screen. could this be related to some bug or glitch or resource problem with windows 95 or perhaps this flash 7 spoof simply doesn't work anymore on opera 10.63 or firefox 2.0.0.20? the system is almost complete other than these resource problems and youtube not working. could any of this have to do with the ISA card slowing the system down incredibly, having limitations in software, etc? it is the ess1869 isa sound card. i don't have any flash players installed in add or remove programs, only the plugin files in the necessary folders of the web browser programs. also, is there any straightforward or simple way to free up resources in windows 95 that might help with these possible resource related issues that doesn't involve manually changing the settings in device manager? because i don't seem to have the best luck changing stuff there, it seems like the hardware is usually tied to a certain irq and just won't work when you try to change irqs ( system hangs at loading and requires going to safe mode to remove and redetect back to original settings ).

i gave up on trying to update the bios, im scared that i might corrupt the motherboard from a failed bios update, i couldn't find a bios update that was specifically for the m6tbd, although everest mentioned m6tbe, i wouldn't want to install the m6tbe bios update on this m6tbd board, i wanted to update the bios to see if maybe i could get the hdd to be detected at a higher size and maybe detect the cpu as p iii in post, but like they say, if the system is working fine, then you don't need to apply a bios update and the system has been working fine other than the wifi issue or some smaller stuff. i couldn't get the bios to update when trying to attempt so using the awdflash.exe or awd603.exe files, i don't remember the name but i used the m6tbe bios both ways, i tried to use awdflash or awd603 in 98SE boot disk but they just would say something like erase now! please wait. i turned off the system even though not recommended but nothing went wrong. i followed instructions exactly as mentioned on several sites with no success. anyways, to get back to the other issues, i am going to do a fresh install of w95 again, this time, i might assign the irq manually in the bios but i don't know for sure, the only problem i seemed to have was the wifi which somehow corrupted the tcp/ip protocol, this was going by the fatal error, cannot read ip configuration error that was given by winipcfg after a certain point of fiddling with irq settings, reinstalling the driver for the wifi. i still don't know if this is a windows 95 related problem of just having a hard time with resource configuration, the driver not supported properly on w95, or if the card doesn't work properly on pci 2.1 slots which the motherboard may be using? i might go ahead and order a cisco 350 wireless pci adapter or a card that is 5 volt keyed only to see if maybe it's because these newer pci 2.2 cards don't work properly on older motherboards, even if the card's driver itself is supported. i somehow fixed that resource conflict or error code 10 of the standard esdi controller in device manager by installing the driver again, the way where you say no, i will select the driver, and just selected the only one that popped up and it was dated like 2015-16 and then the error code went away. the isa sound card works fine, tested doom and wolf 3d and sound was fine, as well as windows sounds working good. i was trying to see if i could fine maybe an older version of the realtek wireless lan utility, i mean, the system freezed / gave an error and worked very slowly after i first installed the realtek 8180 wifi driver only, device manager did say it was working and winipcfg even had in the option box, but i don't know if it was when i installed the realtek wireless lan utility that the system was unable to tolerate to which caused the protection error or if the driver would have done the same, even if i didn't install that utility? the utility is called "RtWLanUI(v3.5.0.6)", i obtained it from the same page on realtek's site that had the driver mentioned for windows 95 and NT 4. i was thinking to maybe use a different wireless utility / third party utility that can work with the card as an another option, but that's with the assumption that the card will work right after installing the driver only and then restarting and not getting the protection error. btw, the system is pretty fast with just a pentium iii 450mhz, but i suppose its because of the 384 MB ram and fast hard drive, i used hd tach 2.61 and it gave me 27 mbps read speed for the hard drive! although limited by ata 33 standard, it still runs pretty quick.

well it seems that the dev 3104 usb pci card was actually detected as dev 3038 and installed by xusbsupp and it is working now detecting usb drives, so i didn't need to install a seperate driver :), however, i still have that irq problem with the hard disk controller after applying that patch and even the newer inf update, i basically did almost all official updates so far, also, after installing the wifi driver, it messed up the pc, ( protection error at one point ), due to possibly a resource conflict which i haven't been able to fix, or it could be that the card simply doesn't work on w95? the driver did install fine, gave a blue screen after installing though mentioning an error having to do with vxd or ndis i think, but was indicated as working in device manager, as soon as i installed the client manager though, it freezed the pc and that's where the protection error came up after restarting, i think it might be a irq problem mixed with driver / application issues, irq 11 is used by the isa card, network card, display adapter i think, and usb i think, but i don't think any of them allow me to even change their irq? there is the manual and auto setting in bios for irq but im scared to use that, i feel like it will make things really hard to fix? i do have an older realtek utility for the wifi but i don't even see an uninstaller option in add or remove programs section so i guess i'll just have to work around the problem for a bit, and if all else fails, i can reinstall the os again and start fresh and try different methods. also interestingly, everest home edition shows the motherboard name as m6tbe instead of m6tbd that is physically imprinted on the motherboard itself.

i used to have cox cable internet, when i switched to u verse, i couldn't connect automatically the same way, this is because i had a guest network with cox and when i went to browse the internet on windows 95 or 98 ( using the cisco 350 wireless pci adapter without the utility as an example ), it brought up the guest page and i just entered the guest password for that and it worked, i don't remember what exact settings the router used for cox, and i'm not sure which settings my u verse one uses now, and im not sure if u verse has this same feature that cox has with the guest network thing, you may be able to set the settings to use wep even if it's not recommended, but i think i tried that before and for some reason, it still wouldn't connect to w95 and 98 systems, it's like they put that feature there for no reason? i use a secondary router mostly for windows 95 systems, apparently wpa is not supported by any cards or utilities to work with windows 95, only wep, which is a bummer because wsc gaurd 4.0 works with windows 98SE which even if your router uses wpa2 settings, you don't need that to connect to it from the 98SE system, you can just select the network, set the settings to wpa and aes encrpytion, type password, and it will connect if your card supports wpa, it may not support wpa2 itself but at least it can connect to modern routers. however, this probably can't be done with w95, i'm in the midst of finding a utility that supports the same sort of functionality that wsc gaurd 4.0 does but one that can allow connecting wep based w95 setups to wpa2 routers by using some sort of setting that allows so.

lots of updates, first, the pentium iii 450mhz cpu worked, the model number is sl35d, no hanging issues and i didn't need to install a pentium ii and apply any bios updates to get it to work properly. the hard drive wd blue 160 GB im using is limited to just under 8 GB partition in fdisk but im fine with that, i suppose there may be settings in the bios that can or were able to bypass the 8 GB problem but thats enough space for me to work with. i initially couldn't get the system to work with the ss-401ht psu, it wouldn't even attempt to turn on, i luckily had the original psu that came with the case and it worked right away, not sure what the problem was, it may or may not be related to the psu, but that's a different matter that i want to solve later. im not sure if the via pci usb card is properly working or will work properly, regedit shows the pci ven as "PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3104", i went ahead and looked at the inf files of xusbsupp and couldn't find the same id for the wdm file so i don't know if xusbsupp will install the drivers for the add on card, i looked at some drivers i found in 2002 and all of which mention windows 98 but not windows 95, although some driver packages had w95 in the initial download folder name, i'm not sure if i can trust that. i will try to find the oldest package or use one for later if xusbsupp doesn't install the driver. i just installed the operating system so i haven't installed any updates yet, just building the driver cd first and im just left with finding a driver for the pci usb card. i think i might use the "4.90.3000.2" driver version. also, in the manual it mentions to install the piix4 patch, from the package i found, it only lists up to windows 95 osr 2.1, some of the files are dated 1998 so i think the update still applies to osr 2.5, im gonna apply it probably. i do see a resource conflict in the device manager for the standard esdi hard disk controller with the isa sound card im using and when i tried to change it, it would only give me like 2-3 irq numbers and all of them were conflicts so i guess that piix4 patch is supposed to fix this?

well i ordered the rest of the parts now, there is some things that may not work in which i would need to spend more money, but if so, hopefully it's limited to only the optional stuff like the pci usb card for connecting to the front usb ports of the computer case which i don't need absolutely, the pci wireless adapter which either may not work because of it being in reality only a pci 2.2 card, even though it does mention pci 2.1 AND pci 2.2. also the processor may not work ( pentium iii 450mhz 100mhz fsb katmai, the model number is a costa rica model and i couldn't match it with the same stepping that someone else got working on a similar motherboard, there is no information for the model that the ebay user gave me ). also unsure of the cpu retention bracket as i never even used a slot 1 setup and if this would be compatible with the cpu or for the intended purpose i would need it for. also ordered a agp 4x/2x video card ( universal type ) which physically will fit but still unsure on whether or not it will work, and i couldn't find out if the motherboard supports agp 2x, only that it can operate in 66mhz and 133mhz but i couldn't find out what that means. so in other words, i think i would be putting on a agp 2.0 video card onto a agp 1.0 slot in other clarifications. the isa sound card i ordered is a "cheaper" design and i noticed that the length on the pins seems to be a little shorter compared to the other ones i compared, and i couldn't find out if there is different types of isa ports so im just gonna assume its compatible still with the isa slot im gonna use. also ordered a lower rpm quieter fan to be used in replacement for the original cpu fan but i heard also something to do with newer fans acting weird in older systems because the system gets confused with these lower voltage or lower rpm fans? and lastly, the (3) sticks of 128 MB memory is the last thing im worried about not working. when first turning on the computer and testing it out, i'm not gonna install the pci add on cards, because it would be easier to diagnosis any problems.

does anyone know if the universal agp 8x/4x listed graphics cards will work on a agp 3.3 volt slot ( original seattle 440bx motherboard with agp 1.0 specifications i believe, or to be more specific, the M6TBD motherboard i referenced to? ). i tried to google search agp compatibility but couldn't find enough liable information, i tried to look at 3.3 volt only cards or agp 1.0 cards (2x and 1x apparently) but im seeing that they are only like 8 MB - 16 MB of video memory which is too little for newer games like return to castle wolfenstein and other uses that i would like the computer to have enough performance for. i need the graphics card to have 64 MB of video memory, preferably a geforce3 ti 200 / 500, geforce2 or geforce4 440mx i suppose which apparently seem to have good dos compatibility and would have enough performance for other things too. also couldn't really get a clear answer on whether or not conventional pci 2.2 cards would work in pci 2.1 slots. so basically, i would like to use the motherboard below possibly ( although options may change quickly ), with the geforce4 440mx 64 MB agp card listed below, the wireless pci card, and the pci usb card adapter, otherwise, i guess i would have to use a newer chipset motherboard that possibly has isa slots that supports agp 2.0+, pci 2.2, etc, although there is ONE board in specific that i have under watch but i don't want to anyone to know lol - http://www.ebay.com/itm/M6TBD-Slot-1-A-Motherboard-NEW-w-Backplate-/201485858753?hash=item2ee97e37c1:g:NekAAOSwhkRWcIsw http://www.ebay.com/itm/Albatron-NVIDIA-GeForce4-MX-440-MX480E-64-MB-DDR-SDRAM-AGP-DVI-VGA-Svideo-/121110389634?hash=item1c32bde382:g:q-oAAMXQ-3NRjZkI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156130 https://www.bigboxlive.com/startech-com-7-port-pci-usb-card-adapter-pciusb7?language=en&currency=USD

the board actually has a clock multiplier up to 5x for 100mhz bus speed so it might support a pentium iii 500mhz katmai even though i couldn't find any reference to any p3 processors, though that is a little slow for me still, i heard that the slot 1 to socket 370 adapters may or may not come with the internal voltage regulator so im weary on using those at it may be a hit or miss thing. where are those cheaper new socket 370 boards with isa slots lol. that's what im looking for lol.

does anyone know if i can use the m6tbd version 1.0 slot 1 motherboard with the slot 1 to socket 370 adapter? i don't know what to look at in the manual to find out whether or not the motherboard will support ANY pentium iii processors. some sources mentioned that it depends on the voltage regulator on the motherboard for 440bx boards, so to find a solution to this, you would use the slot 1 to socket 370 adapter which has it's own internal voltage regulator? or even if the motherboard has a locked multiplier, it won't matter because the pentium iii processors are locked themselves and they will simply run at their desired speed, assuming they are using 100mhz bus speeds which is the same bus speeds supported by this board? i don't plan on installing up to tualatin processors unless of course it's possible which would be nice to have, another route would be to run maybe the pentium iii 450mhz klamath processor and overclock it a little, but that's only IF i can overclock it, even then, it wouldn't be practical because i could only overclock it very little, it would run a bit hot and it would still be slow for my desired build. so again, here is the motherboard below that i would like to try out, the manual, and slot 1 to socket 370 adapter - http://www.ebay.com/itm/M6TBD-Slot-1-A-Motherboard-NEW-w-Backplate-/201485858753?hash=item2ee97e37c1:g:NekAAOSwhkRWcIsw http://www.ebay.com/itm/Slot-1-to-Socket-370-Adapter-Intel-Socket-370-PPGA-FC-PGA-Card-/222088879613?hash=item33b5875dfd:g:SXQAAOSwVghXEl0x http://thoughtsfactory.org/manuals/M6TBD_User_Manual.pdf

i really don't want to use the slot 1 motherboards due to the higher cost of processor / heatsink, etc, and more complicated design. the socket 370 440bx motherboards with at least one isa slot would be a better choice for my build but i can't find any new ones that are affordable yet. and i also keep debating on whether to just use a pentium 4 board with maybe a pci sound card like the yamaha 724 which seems to have good reviews and sound compatibility in dos games from google searching but the pc is going to be put for sale and i feel like it might draw away buyers if they see the system not having any isa slots or isa sound card present, and i don't want to put the pci sound card on the slot 1 / socket 370 boards AND an isa card, its either one or the other. i guess i'll just have to keep searching or be patient and in the meantime order the other parts for the system. it's basically the motherboard, cpu, fan / heatsink, ram, and sound card that are the problem, everything else is or should be compatible in relation to one another, i even found a new wifi card that should work on this build with windows 95 driver specifically mentioned and downloadable from realtek's site which is the Trendnet TEW-228PI ( pci ven 8180 ). i feel like i should just purchase the case asap because of the limited availability and so i can have a clearer picture of what parts i should then buy or how they would need to be arranged with it.

i'm in the middle of building a windows 95 pc and i was wondering if its possible to get front usb connectors from the computer case to the motherboard to work on pentium iii systems that don't seem to have the built in internal usb ports. the earliest motherboards that i've seen with the internal usb ports to connect to the front computer case usb ports are pentium 4 motherboards but i can't use those because im choosing to build this pc with all new parts and i can't find any new p4 boards with isa slots for dos sound that are affordable, the used ones are still a little expensive anyways. i know usb 2.0 is backwards compatible with usb 1.1/1.0, so that part is taken care of. i found something that i thought may work, it's a usb 2.0 pci add on card with 2 ports in the rear, but also has a "special" internal connector for connecting front bay usb which is the only connector that looks to be the only thing im looking for, but what i want to know is if front bay is the same as front usb ports of the computer case or if this method will work? i attached the link to the usb add on card below. also the case to which i want to use doesn't have the wires in the form of a block like the newer cases do, it has them broken down into individual wires, i don't think this would be compatibility issue, just an inconvenience i guess. also, im trying to get more information for a particular motherboard that i may use but i can't find the chipset it uses based on google searching and briefly skimming through the motherboard manual, i listed the manual motherboard below too, basically, i want to be able to know if it's possible to even install a pentium iii cpu, but the better question would be the fastest it CAN support, because i plan on having dvd playback on the system and that would require a pentium iii 800mhz or faster, although the board manual did mention supports 233mhz - 500mhz cpu, that isn't enough info. skimming through wikipedia, the fastest pentium ii cpu is 450mhz and there are no 500mhz pentium ii processors, so by going with this, it should then make the board compatible with the pentium iii 500mhz katmai cpu at least? also based on wikipedia for intel chipsets, the closet chipset that seems to resemble the board seems to be the 440bx which mentions support for pentium iii, there is another alternative to use the Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard but it's a little more expensive at this point and doesn't have integrated ethernet ( which is nice to have ) because i would have to buy an add on ethernet pci card for this board then. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815166001R&cm_re=pci_usb-_-15-166-001R-_-Product http://thoughtsfactory.org/manuals/M6TBD_User_Manual.pdf

well microsoft's information is not completely correct, fable tlc actually works on windows 98SE as i tested it myself ( without needing kernelex ), i was trying to use it on w95, but apparently, like you said, even if the game can switch renderers, it may still be linked to directx libraries and requires them to present, which could explain why i got the error linked to a missing directx file ( i don't remember the exact error ), with that being said, is there a simple hack or trick to make the game to think it has the system requirements or bypass this problem and allow playing it? like maybe hacking the original directx 8 file on the system and changing it to be recognized as the newer directx 9 file, something to which that may have been similarly done with the flash 7 spoof which they used the flash 7 plug in on windows 95 to get youtube to work on firefox 2.0.0.20 and opera 10.63, where they made the flash 7 file to be recognized as flash 8? there is another game i haven't tested and would like to get working on w95 which i think has opengl rendering is call of duty united offensive, because there are video cards that work on w95 that have hardware capabilities up to directx 9.0b which the game mentions, and the game can also be played in directx 7.0 mode.

ok, so i was able to get a 3.99 GB primary c: partition showing in the operating system for NTFS file format, so better than the 1.99 GB of space i originally had in previous setups from using fdisk originally to create a fat16 partition and formatting it as ntfs, which wasn't what i had to do. i first choose a 4098 MB partition size in the nt 4.0 setup loader with NTFS format option, which is the max amount before it says that the partition is too large. so i won't need a different partition program after all, the nt 4.0's partition tool should take care of any fat16 / ntfs partitions.

hmmmm, i did read that document before and just today earlier, but what the heck, i guess i will experiment again with the dell latitude d810 i got and see if i can get any good results, i have to re install the operating system anyways for like the 5th time for windows 98SE which is what im trying to get working with it originally lol, i did it before, but this time, i corrected / added some things but the laptop is still very temperamental with 98SE, none of the other laptops i worked with were this hard to work with, going to safe mode and not changing anything makes the system unbootable..., other wierd things were if i used msconfig to prevent a program from running like the pci modem or ati control panel, it made the system unbootable to the operating system and only working in safe mode, and just now, i had a problem trying to configure the graphics driver, got it working before doing a certain method, ( i did write it down ), but maybe i didn't provide enough specific steps, but apparently i did something wrong this time which corrupted the video / driver and just turning the screen into a white distorted color on the splash screen and just freezing. i don't want to mention all the troubleshooting things i done, but one of the things i tried to do was delete all of the driver related files, and from the registry in safe mode, but none of these made any difference, it would still hang on the splash screen for ends. its gonna be frustrating if i can't get past the graphics part on the 5th installation time, but hopefully it will work out and i don't have to do a 6th installation or more lol.

i was wondering if anyone knows any bootable partition programs with an iso image or which you can burn onto a cd that features creating / formatting / and deleting primary, logical or extended partitions in fat16/fat32 format or ntfs or one that also has diskpart? i downloaded a few bootable programs but all of them either were very large in size and were difficult to use or i couldn't find a way to use them. what i want to be able to do is format drives for windows nt 4.0, but also have the ability to wipe the hard drive clean of any extended or logical drives, this is because when first installing windows nt 4.0, i first create a very small fat partition using the windows 98SE boot disk (Fdisk) and then select the remaining detected space in the setup part of windows nt 4.0 and have everything loaded into that partition but then the new default drive for the operating system becomes an extended ntfs partition and fdisk is then unable to delete that partition later on. the only way i found that i can wipe the hard drive clean of any of those remaining ntfs partitions was to use a windows xp 32 bit full operating system cd and boot into command prompt and use diskpart, but i don't want to do this because it is not practical and i don't want to use two discs for formatting / wiping hard drives. other than that, am i missing something here or doing something wrong in the windows nt 4.0 installation process? i was not able to get more than a 2 GB partition alone in the past, i always had to create extended ntfs partitions to get more space, yet i've seen people that had 4 GB partitions as their primary drives and no other partitions on the side, but how so?

i was wondering if any of you know or have tested any opengl games that originally would not have been playable on older operating systems (95osr2.5, 98SE, etc) due to not having the minimum directx requirements but were able to still be work using opengl mode. i tried to run fable the lost chapters on windows 95 in opengl mode, ( i didn't install it, i copied the already 32 bit installed program from another system ) but it gave an error of missing some directx 9 file, but why would it give this error? i thought opengl is software of its own and wouldn't need anything from directx to work? also, i don't remember exactly, but i think it might have mentioned some missing function or cd error. i know there is a list of opengl specific games such as mentioned in wikipedia, which is where i found fable, but i was simply wondering if anyone has any sort of experience with experimenting in this way?

i never had to manually install an inf for the monitors on w95, they were all plug and play and loaded from the beginning of the os, they would either show up as default monitor, unknown monitor, or plug and play monitor ( i think that's what i said ), and all of them worked with graphics processing units other than the 845. are you saying that its possible that i may need to update the monitor's drivers for it work properly together with certain gpu's like the 845 graphics?

update, i was able to get sound working in both the windows environment and wolfenstein 3D using the 4.12.01.4056 driver. the instructions i did was i simply ran the setup.exe in the folder package, rebooted, and the sound worked from there. i didn't have to manually change any sort of settings in config.sys or autoexec which im thankful for because i'm new to all this, it did it for me and shows it in the boot up screen of irq settings, etc, before loading to the desktop. although i only tested one dos game, this was a nice experience. i would like to be able to have this sort of easy configuration with other laptops too, although newer, the better, the laptop didn't come with an ethernet port, i thought it would based off driver searching of this model giving a package for it. also, no internal wifi antennas for the mini pci slot. although it has (2) cardbus slots so you can still get ethernet, wifi and the pci modem (currently installed in mini slot) all working at the same time for maximum compatbility, also has a floppy drive and it was working. my goal is to find a pentium 4 laptop or amd laptop, basically any laptop that has a processor with up to sse2 instructions, while also having a dos compatible sound card, floppy drive, etc.

bumping this thread again, has anyone actually got a working driver for the 845 / 865 graphics on windows 95? reason being is because i just checked asus's site for a few of their motherboards and they actually mention win95 under the section for the vga graphics for the "Intel(R) Brookdale-G Graphics Controller" which links to the 845 graphics and "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2562" being the hardware id. i was not able to get this particular graphics to work on certain systems, one of which was a dell dimension 1100 or 2400, not sure which one. the exact problem was that the system would either show the driver working in device manager but keep asking to set the resolution in the display adapter which i would but it wouldn't change it and would just do the same thing over and over after restarting the system, other instances, the driver wouldn't even be working in device manager. i don't remember the exact processes i had to do. is there a specific way that i would need to get this graphics to work on windows 95, being that the older operating systems tend to be a little nitpicky on the way things need to be setup. i usually install the driver through the changing display adapter way, but on some instances, it may need to be necessary to run the setup.exe of the driver package. i think i remember one of the installers mentioned to run the setup.exe, but not restart the system, then go to the add or remove hardware wizard to detect new devices, to which it would install more devices, and from there, you would need to restart, but all this doesn't make sense, why should you need to do that? i never seen a device need that sort of configuration. im not sure if this was even for windows 95. i have copied and pasted the link to the site of asus below that mentions the driver for win95 for the brookdale-g graphics for the P4BGL-VM motherboard, also the oldest driver i have found for ""PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2562" was version 4.13.01.3023, i don't know if i tested this one before, but the one that asus posted is newer, sometimes newer drivers work, sometimes older ones work. i looked a revision history of the brookdale-g graphics and they had some releases that may been even earlier than the 4.13.01.3023 that i found, but i couldn't find any ones older than that. http://www.asus.com/support/Download/1/15/9/1/1/ http://www.asus.com/Static_WebPage/Windows_XP_Intel_Socket_478/

im confused, are you trying to get wireless connection on the broadcom 94306mp or dell truemobile 1400? i've used the bcm94309mp like you mentioned, there is also the 94306mp, and other cards like the intel 21003a or 3b ( not sure on which one ), also the actiontec 802mip mini pci card works. usually, the utilities that come with the driver packages should let you find a network to connect to, but it is possible to use a seperate one such as wsc gaurd 4.0, allows up to wpa encrypted networks if the wifi card supports it, the utility doesn't work for all network cards. interesting enough, i searched old drivers for the dell truemobile 1400 mini pci card and apparently it links back to a 2001 driver with the same pci ven and windows 95 support, i will have to give it a check again but if this is correct, not only does it support 98SE, but also w95, and i have installed w95 on the dell latitude d600 before too with some decent support, some of the ethernet adapters are gigabit based which according to lone crusader, are no drivers for w95, but there is the other one, not sure which one, but had a working w95 driver, besides that and pcmcia and cardbus, all other devices had working drivers, gpu, sound, usb, modem, etc.

i too worked with the dell latitude d600 on 98SE, i got all drivers to work, except for the pci cardbus bridge "PCI\VEN_1217&DEV_7112" or 7113 and cardbus controller "O2Micro-SmartCardBus_Reader-2E10", i tried like the oldest drivers for both, 2-26-02 or somewhere around there for the cardbus bridge and the other one was 10/06/2000,1.03.00.00, but i may have not properly installed the drivers, at least for the cardbus controller portion, i believe that for the "O2Micro-SmartCardBus_Reader-2E10" portion, you have to first install scbase.exe, then smclib.exe, then other steps to get it working. for the cardbus bridge, probably have to run o2update.exe to get it work, but i don't know for sure on the process, maybe the drivers arent compatible. here is some information i got below from the "O2Micro-SmartCardBus_Reader-2E10" scrreadme portion, although it is meant for the O2Micro SmartCardBus Reader (OZ711E1) reader - O2Micro SmartCardBus Reader (OZ711E1) Installation Readme.txt Win2000 Installation ( V 1,0,0,0 ) ---------------------- - Insert the Reader and follow Plug/Play Procedure on the screen. Win98/Win98SE Installation ( V 1,0 ,0 ,1 ) ---------------------- NOte: Since SmartCard is not a standard component of Win98/Win98SE. please follow the procedure below befor installation. By the way, the OZ711E1 is not included in the PCMCIA.INF of Win98/Win98SE, so we need to execute the " O2setup.exe " in " O2 Cardbus " directory. - Run SCBASE.EXE FIRST, AND THEN SMCLIB.EXE on scbase directory. - Insert the Reader and follow Plug/Play Procedure on the screen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALSO from the "readme"- Installing SmartCard driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 9x : ----------------------------------------------------------------- Note: The Smart Card driver is only for Notebook PC models with support for Smart Cards. If your Notebook PC does not support Smart Cards, do not install the Smart Card driver. 1. Run CDROM Driver:\SmartCard\Path\Win9XME\SCBASE.EXE 2. Run CDROM Driver:\SmartCard\Path\Win9XME\SMCLIB.EXE 3. Insert Smartcard after install above program. 4 Double-click the System icon in the Control Panel. 5. Click on "Device Manager" tab in System Properties. 6. Double-click on "O2Micro-SmartCardBus Reader" 7. Click on "Driver" tab, and click on "Update Driver" icon. 8. Click on "Next" twice. 9. Select "Specify a location:" only and click on "Browse..." 10. Please Select the Driver location. (example CDROM Drive:\SmartCard\711Driver\WIN98SE) 11. Click on "OK" button and click "Next" twice to start driver install. 12. Click on "Finish" and Reboot system to finish driver installation.

i just tested some early flash 10 versions on nt 4.0 server ( 10.0.12.36? ), one of which gave an error of something to do with setfilepoint, and videos wouldn't load or play, but i found a site that mentioned flash 8 working on nt 4.0 so i uninstalled existing ones and did as mentioned and i got it to work with flash player 8.0.42.0 non internet explorer version, videos playing on opera 10.63 with the play button and other buttons visible. seems to be the newest version that works with some tweaking of the registry at first. link of thread is below, the flash 7 spoof is only needed for windows 95 which i have already been using for quite some time now - https://forums.techguy.org/threads/how-to-watch-youtube-and-view-flash-sites-in-windows-nt-4-0-and-possibly-windows-95.927854/

hi, is that driver you linked to supposed to support sound in both dos and windows environment? reason being is that when i compare its strings to the newer one i mentioned, it doesn't list as many things, making it seem like the newer one contains more functions, but again, i don't what to compare really, just something to throw out. also in the newer drive package, it contains also an esssetup.exe, what is the difference between this one and the one you have that only mentions setup.exe? if i were to run the newer one, would i have to run both of those, esssetup and setup.exe?