mumdigau

Hi, thanks for feedback. So far, I see no irregularities; exception: see below. When a dos-box opens full screen, everything is ok; changing to dos-window, seems still to be ok. But when I close the window and open a new one, I get that VGAFULL.3GR-error. When I change back to full screen, a new dos-box opens ok again. I see the same entries, but the first two are grayed. Perhaps an other registry entry is missing. @alexxx The only mod I applied prior to RC3 was DirectX 9c. I just installed RC3a over RC3. Do you mean it's worthwhile NOW to deinstall RC3a, reboot and install RC3a again? mumdigau

Hi, Thanks a lot. The major problem (mprexe-error) has gone! Some minor problems remain, so I'll briefly summarize what happened during install of RC3a: 1. gdi.exe and user.exe were found as English versions (very strange: I didn't apply any system mods except DirectX 9c, only Win98 SE fresh install and RC3, both German). I let both files override. 2. Msvcirt.dll (6.01.8637.0) and Msvcrt.dll (6.01.9844.0) were found to be newer. I kept them. 3. During copying files I got Winoldap-error 'Invalid page in vgafull.3gr' in DOS-window 'RUNPOST'. I closed the window, and the copy process went through. After reboot the Winoldap-error showed up again during system setup. This time, after closing the window, the system resp. setup hangs, and I had to power off. After reboot, Tweak UI and Setup terminated normally. I checked the version of VGAFULL.3GR, it's 4.10.1998. In addition, the entries for 'Explorer' and 'Open' under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell are gone, so right click 'Start' shows both grayed. Perhaps someone can post them here. ciao mumdigau

Hi Gape, thanks for your reply. Hopefully swgreed gets involved. or better move to an other forum (which one)? What do you think on these double entries in Device Manager? mumdigau EDIT: Just two follow-up remarks resp. questions: 1. If you think of a hack problem of the German version, keep in mind that the mprexe-error already was there BEFORE applying SR2.0 RC3. First time it came up was after I installed the drivers for my onboard NIC card (SIS 900). 2. I've a dual boot system with Windows XP Pro. I followed all recommandations here in the net and first installed Win98, then XP. Everything went fine (except a. m. Win98 -problems). If I can't get rid of these problems, I'm willing to change to English Win98SE plus SR2.0 RC3. From own experience I know that installing Win98 AFTER XP will render XP unbootable. What is the best way to replace the existing Win98 system by an English version without loosing the dual boot functionality? ciao mumdigau

I installed German version. Yeah, HW/RAM (512 KB) ok and rather new. I can provide an zipped AIDA32 report (still rather huge) if you like. HW: Motherboard with SIS 650 chipset, Pentium 4 (2.4 GHz). Boot infos for PCI Devices: - Onboard PCI Bridge - Onboard Communication Device (IRQ10) - Onboard Ethernet (IRQ5) - Onboard USB Controller (IRQ10) - Onboard USB Controller (IRQ5) - Onboard USB Controller (IRQ11) - Onboard Multimedia Device (IRQ10) - Onboard Firewire Controller (IRQ11) - Onboard IDE - Bridge VGA (IRQ11) Hard Disk info: - Primary Master PIO Mode 4 / UDMA Mode 5 - Secondary Master PIO Mode 4 / UDMA Mode 2 Newest AMI BIOS, same for all SIS 650 drivers. Device Manager looks ok except: - ? PCI Card (this must be the onboard modem for which I can't get the drivers installed, don't know why; that's not critical for me because I'll connect via LAN and DSL-modem to the Internet) - double entries for 'USB root Hub' and 'VIA Tech 3038 PCI/USB Universal Host Controller' (I don't know if this is critical). Thanks for investigation. mumdigau

After a fresh install of 98SE I always got the following error when shutting down : Mprexe is causing an error by an invalid page in module <unknown>. The only way to proceed is to power off the PC. I proceeded to install SR2 RC3, but near the end of the install I got an Winoldap error: Invalid page in vgafull.3gr. The system hang, and I had to power off in order to proceed. I reapplied the service pack under save mode, now it went through, but after restart I got the same Winoldap error. At that moment, three tasks were running: Win98 Setup, Win98 Setup and Regtlib. None of the tasks could be terminated nor the system could be shut down, so I had to power off, again. After restart, I noticed that under right click 'Start' the entries 'Open' and 'Explorer' were grayed. Hitting 'commandline here' comes up with the same Winoldap error as above. And the Mprexe error is still there. Any help very much appreciated. Thanks. mumdigau