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Sorry for the late response but I am using the <warez site> download.

Yes I tried nGlide. It wanted the full featureset of DirectX 9 apparently, and while my card (Nvidia Geforce FX5200) supports that, it apparently doesn't support it enough and the game I tried didn't launch. Mind you, the game is Gex 2: Enter the Gecko. I wanted to play this for a laugh but apparently not only does it not support DirectX (...despite having it as a requirement in the install...) but the Direct X patch simply caused the game not to launch. No error, just no launch either. I tried OpenGLide, and dgVoodoo 1.0. No cigar with either; on OpenGLide a KERNEL32.DLL error is shown, on dgVoodoo and nGlide I get the same generic error of "main: grSstOpen failed!" (I say generic because searching for this leads straight back to Gex). What's interesting is that I actually got nGlide working at least once, but never again, and I don't know what I did to screw it up (I even tried uninstalling DirectX via regedit and reinstalling 9.0c with the same result. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling nGlide as well). I'm not interested in buying an actual Voodoo card. I've considered seeing if I can recycle parts and build the open sourced one but I'd rather not build an entire graphics card to play Gex, I would build the card for better performance in other areas. With all that out of the way, help would be much appreciated, I'll take anything other then a real Voodoo card or Windows 10 at this point.

Sorry for the bump, but I came from Google Search, and... This requires a .DLL that doesn't run on Windows 98. I also tried version 2.23.02 og HyperCam, and it didn't run either. I'm really hoping for a non-KernelEx solution as I've never gotten that working in the past. EDIT: Even more sorry for the bump because I now realize that CamStudio, specifically version 2.0 (not 2.7) works fine, and this was mentioned above.

The CD ROM is connected, but the BIOS doesn't allow me to click on the CD ROM of change any settings for it. Here's a video I made of the BIOS:

I don't know which of the solutions worked, but I have 256 colors now! Thank you so so much!! As for the sound card, I installed the drivers, but I don't have sound. Is there some sort of jumper settings I'm supposed to set? I don't see any Standard CMOS Features in the BIOS. Where else might it be? It's certainly not in Drive Configuration.

Before I list the specs of the Windows 98 PC I'm building I want to confirm that this is very much the poor mans Windows 98 PC. Many of the parts here were either given to me for free or pulled from other computers. I don't have that much money, and on top of that I've spent almost three weeks trying to get this PC working. I'm really hoping that I can get Windows 98 working even with the half-compatible setup I have right now: My setup is: MOTHERBOARD: Intel Desktop Board D945GCFG1 PROCESSOR: 1.7GhZ Core Two Duo GRAPHICS: Nvidia Geforce 5200FX SOUND: Soundblaster Live! RAM: 512MB CASE: Cheap $30 ""GAMER"" plastic case I bought off of Ebay (that may as well be the actual name of the case because of how awful it is) OTHER: 1.44MB Floppy Drive and an IDE CD-ROM Almost everything on the computer works except for the CD-ROM (I'll get to that eventually, probably just a missing driver), the sound (also missing drivers, I'll get around to it once I get the graphics out of the way), and of course...the graphics card, which has conflicts with the motherboard (It can't access any of it's default memory ranges because the motherboard is using them, presumably.) The graphics card works, but until I solve the resource conflicts, it's stuck in 16 colors at 640x480. I tried changing the memory addresses that I could to ones that were avaliable, and it resulted in Windows giving me a protection error at boot, even after I renamed smartdrv.exe via safe mode. (It's important to note that I can never change the third set of memory addresses, as Windows always tells me that I'm unable to do so, without giving me an error explaining why. The Bootlog, which is attached the post, doesn't tell me much either). I tried disabling the motherboard resources, which Windows let me do without any errors, but it still complains about the resource conflicts (...even though they shouldn't be there). I tried swapping PCI slots, but I get the same error. I tried going into the BIOS to disable Onboard VGA, and I think I did it, but apparently the manual for this motherboard is just as unknown as the motherboard itself, so I have no idea how I'm actually supposed to do it (I just changed the default video to PCI). Speaking of the onboard VGA, it's either not designed for 98 or not designed for serious use, because it outputs only 640x480 at 16 colors (I assume the latter because when I install the drivers I get the extra option of outputting in 2 colors), so that's a no go. I really don't want to buy another video card - or worse, another motherboard. Is there any reason why Windows won't just let me change those third memory addresses? How can I make Windows 98 just suck it up and make the video card work? BOOTLOG.TXT