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@justacruzr2 Could you message me the contents of the wdma_int.inf file? Or maybe upload it somewhere? I don't think the forum would allow it, since it is part of a commercial product. wdma_int.inf is the inf for your card. And putting it in the inf folder should work. You could test by putting wdma_int.inf, and all of the files for, it into a new folder folder. Then install it manually by directing "Device Manager" to install a driver from the new folder. You may first have to remove the wdma_int.inf file from the inf folder and remove the "non working" device from device manager. If wdma_int.inf has the ID VEN_8086&DEV_2415&SUBSYS_3151109F&REV_02 in it, Windows will pick it and install the driver. Unless the Millennium inf files for KS and wdmaudio have the exact same contents, as the ones from Win98, you should remove them and use the ones from Win98. The inf files contain all of the registry info you need. You should not need to enter them yourself. If the inf files provides different instructions for registry entries, between ME and 98, then you might be causing yourself a problem. If not, then it probably doesn't matter. Just something to keep in mind. I understand that you may already know all of that. So it may be redundancy for the sake of thoroughness. You may very well be capable beyond the suggestion you've received. If it is redundancy, it is just to help get everyone on the same page. There is a very small chance that the driver isn't compatible with Win98. It does happen that, from time to time, a driver from ME isn't meant for 98. I doubt this is the problem. If it is, rloew's Wdmex might fix the issue. I was able to get a driver that was compatible with Win98SE, but not Win98FE, working on FE that way. You can get Wdmex here.

That is true. And disabling the controller in bios isn't always an option. I've had a thinclient that had floppy support in the S.O.C. but no pinout on the board. The bios page was very basic. But at least the controller was listed in Device Manager. Glad you found a fix. Tweak UI is an option in most Win9x unofficial service packs. I myself, don't care for it. It seemed not to correctly undo some of it's own settings. And sometimes it would try to change something that had already been changed, by me or another program. The result also caused issues reverting the change. Until I learned how to remove "Network Neighborhood" from the Desktop without it, that ended up being all I trusting it for.

Well, I today I can't download anything from them. So I was right and "now" partly wrong. It must be a server maintenance thing. I was going to see if the VEN/DEV/SUB/REV in the inf file matched better then the one I shared with justacruzr2. In messaging I mentioned that wdmaudio.inf and KS.inf are Windows 98se Specific. So maybe replacing them with the originals allowed wdma_int.inf to work. Today I downloaded and examined a wdma_int.inf, it is definitely the inf for the card. I'm hoping the issue was resolved.

It gets past the captcha robot acknowledgement . It says "Your download will start in a moment", "If it doesn't restart the download." But it also does nothing when I click the restart. Since I can still download other drivers, from them, I'm wondering if it is just that driver that is down. But if it is still active for other people, it would be pretty strange.

You can disable it in device manager. Then search the registry for the device name, as shown in device manager. Delete only the string value with the "name" of the device. Leave the other entries alone. If you delete the whole device, from the registry, the drive will just show up again on reboot.

There is the open source-port Wolf4gw/Sod4gw. It seemed to support the unique resolution your video card is using (probably over S-Video). That I can share. 4gw.zip

@Goodmaneuver It could just be my browser. I've downloaded several drivers from "driver guide"; but this one never starts. Even after clicking "restart download", I get nothing. I don't personally need it. But could someone else check the download? Maybe it is just a temporary server issue? I've noted that the device ID also matches up in the AC97 Win95 pack. How important is it that the subsystem ID matches? I have found one where everything matches with the exception of "&REV_02" (intel/crystal cs429x); but it is a WDM driver.

@SweetLow Thanks for the info.

Does this include 98FE? Most likely not 95. I imagine these are the ones included in USP3.66?

Dell-AA-Mayweather, any millennial born in 1979 is welcome here.

Nah, listing the outline of your family, birth place, date of birth, and current residence is totally normal Internet behavior. Probably more common than using the same USER/PASS for everything you do online. I've personally been thinking about using my S.S.N. as a forum signature. On a more serious note, I'd pay more attention to the "AA". Could be coincidence, but that's a tag in active use. But I'm getting too old to keep up on all of that.

That's fun to learn. Thanks

Wow. I've used MplayerWW in Linux/Wine. Never imagined it would run on Win98. But it runs fine (default KernelEx). Released 1-13-15.

Some of the early Sherpya releases came with Mplayer's original GUI (gmplayer). I believe others compiled it too. Just can't remember who. It was skinable. I think the default skin was a CyberLink PowerDVD clone.

Some Sherpya build versions, earlier than I have listed above, have a GUI. I don't know which ones, but a couple worked well. I guess someone should make a cheat sheet, for the Mplayer key controls. Maybe even a tutorial on how to use Mplayer and Mencoder to video chat/screen cast. Ffmpeg and Vlc have some use there too. The documentation for Mplayer/Mencoder is pretty long. But the key to using it, without the GUI, is the config file and key controls. Then you can just drag video/audio/playlist files over a shortcut to mplayer.exe. Off the top of my head, [ Volume down = 0 up = 9 ] [ Skip 12 seconds backward = <- forward = -> ] [Skip minute backward = \/ forward = /\ ] [ Fullscreen = f ] [ Pause = space ] [ Framedrop = d ] [ Subtitles = v ] [ On screen display = o ]. I know this has worked in Linux, for aspect ratio. You'd thing it would work with Windows too. In mplayer\input.conf F1 switch_ratio 0 F2 switch_ratio 1.3333 F3 switch_ratio 1.7778 F4 switch_ratio 1.85 F5 switch_ratio 2.3 Here is a larger list of keys. I know this is a lesser reply then you had hoped for. But I mean well.

I've recommended a PDF file printer on MSFN before. I've since bumped into better options. Doro PDF Writer is the best one I've seen so far. It doesn't even need a reboot, to work. There are a bunch of these PDF file printing applications out there. From what I've seen, they are all just running off of Ghostscript's steam. So you could just do this on your own. Well, kinda. I don't know what most recent version of Ghostscript runs on Win98. I've used 8.6. Doro PDF Writer uses some 9.0x version, for which the inf specifies W2K on up. But Doro works fine. You also need the GSview. Then go Start > Settings > Printers > Add Printer. You'll need to find a printer that ends in PS, Postscript, or Postscript+. HP seems to have some good choices. You'll want a color printer, with a good printable area. Then you can print to your Postscript printer (any application), which in turn outputs a Postscript File (.prn). Then you open ghostview > Open the .prn file > Convert > Select Pdfwrite > choose PDF options > Ok. Obviously, Doro is easier. Or if you have it, Adobe Writer.

Maybe its a poor choice necro post. I guess I'll find out. With all respect to Ringo's Mplayer builds, I usually use a build from Sherpya. I think r34401 (12-7-2011) is the last to work with Win98. But the builds from redxii advance much later in version, when used with KernelEx (default settings). Seems you can use up to r37203 (5-17-2014). I haven't been able to use Ringo's builds on all machines. Maybe this will be useful to someone.

If not, toss a critique back. Then I'd keep my eyes open for something else.

Most have probably heard of Co-linux. A now defunct project that loaded Linux beside/inside Windows. It was never developed for Win9x. Only 2000+. Now there is Windows Subsystem for Linux. Also, the Aros distro "Icaros" has something called "Hostbridge". It installs Aros to Win or Linux. You can also create Aros Icons for loading native OS applications. I guess you could use Icaros like a shell replacement. But you don't have to. Then there is BoxedWine. It fakes a Linux kernel on Windows, so it can run Wine. You can run older incompatible applications/games on newer Windows. Running modern DX and GL, inside Win98, isn't going to happen. But we don't get that with KernelEx, either. The larger issue is the slow, but eventual, fade out of 32bit development. Even if that was bridged, the performance hit would likely be pretty noticeable. Still, the idea does tickle the imagination.

I've also ran into that a few times. Once for an audio/music application. So, far they have request at least 16Mb. I've debated if it would be worth creating a ram disk, with a swap file in it. Either create the drive and copy the file over, before Windows loads. Or just have Grub4Dos load a saved disk image, with the file already on it. But its not hard just to enable, from time to time.

1. I have a small Win98 device, that was built without a clock battery. It does have a RTC, but modding a battery addition isn't straight forward. 2. This same device, thus far, can only boot Windows as a live memory disk. So I make portable applications for it. Recently this included a custom codec pack. I can save the disk image after installing programs to another "physical" drive. So I don't have to use portable applications. But I am really starting to like running Windows this way. Maybe its just play? I was hunting the web for something unrelated, and ended up on Horst Schaeffer's Site. I've seen alternatives, for both of these, a hand full of times. But thought I'd share them, this time around. His "Timesync" can update the Windows clock, over the Internet. The /auto switch does so without loading the interface. Good for syncing at boot. And "Inifile" is for working with.... .ini files. It adds and remove entries, or gets and outputs an entry. Certainly, something like this could be helpful in making a portable codec pack (SYSTEM.INI/[drivers32]). Maybe it seems simple and silly, but I love that the codecs are now portable. Inifile only does one entry at a time. So, it could be a little quicker. It'll work until I write my own. He has a good chuck of software on his site. I noticed another tool for adding dialog boxes to batch. They look like the kinda tools you write, because you were learning to add these functions to some larger program(s). I ended up swiping a copy of everything, for my own toolbox.

I appreciated the extra detail.

A more convincing Win95 desktop for Linux. The Github project is here with screenshots here. It is supposed to be more like a total conversion. So the Linux boot graphics, calculator, Browser (Palemoon>Netscape), Email (Netscape again?), MSOffice (Libreoffice), File Browsing, Command prompt, and 95plus. Not for me. But maybe someone here is interested.

http://www.techtalk.cc/viewtopic.php?t=65 I probably am just not being clear enough. Its not an issue of general support for USB2.0. I was meaning that integrated USB, accompanying the chipset, will not be USB2.0. Usb add on cards have their own chip support. But to be frank, I haven't cornered the market on "Intel 810". I just peaked at the wiki on it. And Wikipedia isn't always 100% accurate or complete. So if you are talking about the integrated USB, whoa is me. I would not have been the first person to lean to far on Wiki, for support. "Support" should have been worded more clearly at the internal board devices. Re-reading, I did try to express that intentions to use USB2.0 should avoid Rloew's USB driver, as it is only USB1.0 and 1.1. So thankfully I wasn't too tired to to realize that USB2.0 could be used with the 810. Apparently clarity wasn't in the cards, for me. If I am way wrong, and you are talking about the integrated system, please correct me. You are right, Win98se does not support a bunch of machines, straight from install. But, you'll get it. Plenty here have Installed Win98se, on machines much much newer. I personally, have not pasted the 2010 manufacture date. I've got my fingers crossed, that the new driver attempt works for your machine. The Trigem Cognac has similar (maybe the same) specs, and the same chipset(although wiki says there are 5 different ones, it probably won't matter). So likely every thing should work. You will still need drivers for the USB2.0 card. I also do not like the SE Unofficial Service Packs. But 3.66 was added/updated in 2021. However, much of is is a collection of original updates. Things like Kernelex and USB are more recent. Despite 3.66 being the newest, it seems those that do use the service pack prefer 3.65. I found modem and video drivers on the restore disks. The audio driver is just an audio.exe file. maybe it will extract/install drivers somewhere. The other two are inf folder. All, but the first one listed, chipset support downloads on this page include the 810. The audio driver I mentioned earlier, will/should work. Video is included in the restore CD and maybe/probably the Trigem drivers. If you can't get USB2.0 working, try the more recent NUSB3.6 drivers. Hope you up and running, before you read any of this. Good luck!

Hopefully, MrMateczko's suggestion works for you. You could try the 95 modded AC97 drivers. They still contain original support for 98 and newer. You can get them here and here. These seem to be your specs, found from a brief search. The Intel® 810 Chipset seems to only support USB1.1, so you could try rloew's USB driver, instead. If you can provide the make/model of the "added" USB card, the drivers are probably common. But I have suspicions that NUSB will end up working for you. Note: if you intend to use USB2.0, do not use rloew's USB driver. There has been debate about the usefulness of "Intel Chipset" support additions being installed. I don't want to add anything to that debate, but I will say that the inf files for older chipsets have much more information in them. If the chipset support does anything useful, it is more likely to be useful on a system like yours. I know rloew instructed that the chipset support be installed "before" you install his USB driver. I've had VIA and Intel systems not correctly detect PCI "and other" devices, until the chipset support was installed. But who is to say "for certain" that it was actually the chipset installation that helped. It couldn't hurt to try. You mentioned that you installed updates. Did you install one of the Unofficial 98se service packs? If so, the newer ones provide their own USB drivers. So installing NUSB shouldn't be needed. You could remove the drivers and let Windows re-detect the system. But that probably won't do much better than just trying to update drivers from the ME infs. I doubt it could do much harm trying anyway. Since you are having USB and Audio issues, it seem like something else might be wrong. KolibriOS provides an ISO for it's LiveCD OS. You system is supported by KolibriOS, so you could test your hardware with that. You could also try burning an older "Live" 32Bit Linux to CD. Even something dated, like "Damn Small Linux", should boot and provide functionality tests. Knoppix 6 or 7 series would also be good. However, there are recent Linux releases that will still boot an older system, like the one you have. Maybe Pupply Linux? I have my doubts that there is a hardware malfunction. Perhaps a conflict? I would first remove the USB card, then see what happens when reinstalling "the existing" drivers. It may be further needed to remove any cards added to the system. Unless ME ran fine with these cards installed as the currently are. It is also possible that the audio driver for ME does not Fully support 98. If the drivers in the restore CD are ME Specific and unhelpful "and" the hardware proves functional (via alternative OS tests), then you will likely need to find 98 specific drivers. There are drivers, for you machine, that support both Win95 and 98. Hope someone finds something here useful.