beansmuggler

Any idea how I'd get a Chuanganzhuo CAZED-006 USB External Floppy Drive to cooperate with 9x? I've been using it just fine in a barebones DOS installation and it seems to copy and read everything fine as long as the floppy is good, but if I try to access the drive in 98SE (or the second/third boot of the Setup process tries to access it), the computer instantly freezes and I have to restart. I can only get it to work in 98SE if I boot directly into Command prompt only mode and NOT from trying to do the Restart in MS-DOS mode. If it helps, the thing claims to be designed for everything from 2000 to 10, and having This PC open in Windows 10 shows a drive with a grayscale floppy without anything about how much free space is on it, and plugging it into my WIn10 computer without a floppy in it and trying to open File Explorer causes it to hang until I put something in, presumably so it knows what to preview on the side.

How would this work if Latitude has ICH8?

The site says it's not going to be released to the public.

I have no ads on Android's Chrome, but it doesnt look like I can change any settings. I have third-party cookies only disabled in Incognito, and I dont seem to be able to set ad blocking to anything lower than "block some ads" with no exceptions

I decided to write a thread here after installing XP and 98SE on this laptop countless times to avoid wasting any more time than I have (though it's been fun). Right now I've formatted C: as a ~2GB FAT32 partition and left the rest of the ~160GB drive unpartitioned for now because trying to install 98 while an NTFS partition exists makes the setup cd want to wipe the whole drive. I copied the WIN98 folder to C: and now I am copying another folder called CABS over, which contains the extracted contents of every .CAB file in WIN98 because of some problem I had a million installs ago. After that's done, I plan to copy the following folders into that CABS folder: VID: This has the bearwindows universal video driver with the INF edited to include my driver (which is either a Quadro NVS of some kind or an Intel onboard thing, I don't know anymore) SATA: The BIOS doesn't seem to have anything about IDE support in it, so I'm using this, which seemed to get recognized last install HDAFILES: Stuff for High Definition Audio Codec as instructed here (will copy the renamed HDAICOUT.HDA.100 file into Windows directory as needed) CHIPSET: This has chipset drivers I got from somewhere on here. I've noticed on my last install that there is one extra bit of the chipset that seems to want to use a generic Windows driver rather than the one provided. I'm also using HIMEMX.EXE with /MAX=512000 as I found here a good few installs ago, and messing with SYSTEM.CB as described here to use Safe Mode. I've only recently learned that HIMEMX apparently uses a different form of measurement than the regular HIMEM in Windows, because I was using /MAX=65536 this whole time (the linked site and other sites used 131072 for 1GB, so I just halved it to keep to 512MB and avoid breaking things), but I suddenly noticed that only gave me ~64mb of RAM despite the same number giving me 512mb in Safe Mode. 512000 still only gets me to about 501mb though, so if anyone can provide the number I'm supposed to use, I very much welcome it. While my previous installation attempts have all been a little different, here's the planned order for this one: Finish copying the above Run Setup On reboot, go directly into Command prompt only and apply the changes to CONFIG.SYS and SYSTEM.CB Reboot into Safe Mode In regedit, delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum (I don't remember if I do this here or after the next reboot, but at some point I get stuck at a blank screen and need to do this to clear every driver away) By third reboot I should be able to go into a fresh install and witness a small handful of resource conflicts Install the USB fixer tool linked somewhere on here Install 98SESP3 Forgot to mention: I've also disabled the 1394/Card option in BIOS, disabled Multi-Core and other fancy stuff, chosen Onboard Video rather than Dock Video, disabled WIFi, Bluetooth, and Cellular, and set LAN to just LAN instead of LAN w/ PXE Boot (idunno, it seemed to fancy for 98 to understand). I still haven't solved the mystery of the CD-DVD-RW-???? driver (98 won't read CD's at all after going through installation) and the cause of the resource conflicts. I found that extracting the .EXE for one of the CD driver updates on the Dell support site shows both a windows and a DOS folder, but trying to install them via the in-folder EXE once just gave me a glitchy screen (98 wasn't loading the DOS stuff in its own window I guess) and then the attempt of the same thru command prompt just messed up all my other drivers when I rebooted. Don't know what to do now. That's all I got. I'm guessing WiFi and Bluetooth are impossible for now but I have hope because the huge research time on this forum revealed a ton of ingenuity. There is also this 022Micro thing (cant remember exact name) that I think I have to install by its own EXE even in XP, I forgot what it does so I just ignore it. Anyone know what else I can do to fix my remaining problems (or prevent me from ruining things by bad plans) ?

I downloaded this and Windows Defender said it had the Ymacco trojan on it. Is that something I should be worried about?