cyberformer

Thanks for all the info guys! The Z bot fellow seems to especially pride himself upon his belief that the "death of IPV4" will finish Win 98--(meaning all 9x of course).

Would some one here elaborate on what the Z Bot instigator means by this statement :"MS never updated the Windows TCP/IP stack to handle random port DNS, thus any machine identifying itself with that string, is actually a bot with a B.S user agent." Could someone explain the technical aspects of the process he alludes to, and how he (if serious) could misconstrue himself into believing no can still use 95 anymore?

This is all rather depressing. The intrusiveness continues to escalate with no force suffucient to circumvent it. The only place I feel comfortably home yet still---is using my AOL mail (had it since the year 1999!). Even in the ancient sanctuary of nostalgic abiding...one wonders....!?!

Hello! taunus17m I will have to check into that. I do know for sure, that Windows Me, installs all the drivers for the Optiplex GX110 right out the box! Also, it would seem that some, if not all of the drivers from the Dell "legacy" page work as well for Win 95 on this PC! The GX110 is an excellent PC to run 9x on. It would seem this series of Dell computers were manufactured before the dreaded "bad capacitor" problems reared its ugly head.

In my device drivers, on my Gx110, it says 3Com 3C920 integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (3C905C-TX compatible). If I go into the Dell Driver folder, 1934v (the only folder labeled Dell) it says 3c90X There is a 3 com driver in my documents folder labeled ED5EA11 before I might have extracted it to what eventually became the contents of the 1934v driver folder. It would seem there are 3 to 4 3Com drivers available from that particular "legacy page" for the GX110. I am still looking for where I saved that particular page. ftp://ftp.dell.com/Pages/Drivers/optiplex-gx110-all.html%C2'>

Did you get this working? I am going to be using my GX110 later today, or tomorrow, and will see exactally what kind of 3 Com driver is recorded. There seems to be more than one. There is a Legacy driver page for all the Dell computers..(not the usuall page you are taken to when typing in drivers and support)...that has tons of old drivers for all the older models; I will see if I've got that book marked or saved somewhere.

Hi Hoko! You must have visited the "usual" Dell support site most people usually find first. There is another Dell support site that contains an abundance of "Legacy" drivers for most of the old machines! I cannot find a link at this moment, since I am using another PC. ....I think I typed in "Optiplex GX110 video drivers", or something similiar. and found it that way.

Yes indeed Prozactive, Jd's advice was correct. It was my screen resolution! I like my Icons and visual elements BIG! ..... so that was the problem.

I just downloaded the Avast 4 defs on my XP machine, since I could no longer find a way to download it on my 9x machine. I could get to the page, but there was no way to use any sort of link! It is the same size as the last one (76.9mb) I downloaded on the 16th---and cannot tell if it is newer, or the same. I've not tried to install it yet to check the version number---.

High Hoko! I am using that very seme video card and have had the exact same problems you are describing. So I went into misconfig, and unchecked some of the Nvidia stuff that was starting when the PC boots up. This method got rid of those error boxes at startup, though a few features that are available for 98, 98se, and Me users are not there. The card works otherwise though, so long as you do not fiddle a lot with precise settings etc.

What about a used D-Link Wireless G Desktop adapter? I used the card version on an old Compaq Armada with win 98se for a while and it worked well. It also comes as a PCI card with a little antenna for use on desktops! I've no idea if they still make them, but they must be used ones about if they do not.

Hi! Andromeda43 A very true and excellent post! I've found that the best way to run a 9x, or NT OS, starts After... one adds a lot more RAM than what the PC came with, as well as Removing various programs that are considered "integral" to the OS itself, as well as the Crapware (if bundled with the PC). I might add though, that I've really only had problems with both the 9x and NT versions---once they reached the end of "Their Life Cycle"...and the ensuing "end of software, and hardware support" that eventually follows. From that point on, it usually becomes a real chore/and or challenge---to keep your fine tuned and personally modified system "working".