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It looks like my rebuilt install of 98se wasn't done properly... I put all the files in a directory "Win98" of ISO, and added the original boot-image from my 98SE CD. Saved the ISO and attempted to boot it in Virtual PC. Everything goes as normal until the "Windows is preparing Setup" dialog box - the progress indicator reaches 100% and then stops there, although there is continuing disk activity. After 10 minutes it is still at the same situation. After rebooting the virtual machine, it boots the CD but freezes at loading Setup. Subsequent tries give the same result. What is causing this? Is it a badly built install, corrupted ISO, or fault of Virtual PC?

Are you using Vista? Wrong forum!

Run it from the command prompt.

Flash Decompiler. Google for one.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...iew=getlastpost I've managed to rebuild the 98se installation CAB set. Now all I need to do is to update many of the 6000+ files that make up the 98se distro, remove some unnecessary crap, and rebuild to create a Windows 98 Third Edition

Have you tried chkdsk'ing the drive? ...and even though it's a laptop, it's not designed to be thrown around or handled roughly. That damages the hard drive quickly.

Update: I have emailed 48bitlba.com and informed them of these Drivers, and the issue regarding Windows 95 and >32Gb. BTW: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=I...itlba&meta=

It depends on the BIOS. Usually message such as "Press xxxx to enter SETUP" is displayed. Award, AMI, Phoenix usually use Del. Some other OEMs may use F10, F1, Ins, etc.

The "adapter" doesn't really have any circuitry in it, it just changes the pinout. Most mice now are dual-mode, they can sense which mode to operate in (USB or PS/2) depending on which port it's plugged into. Keyboards. I don't know of any dual-mode ones.

BTW, your old PSU was probably fine. It was the mobo that died (probably a short circuit). The processor might've gone with it too... I recommend an Asus for the new mobo.

Have you checked the CPU temperature? Is the heatsink attached firmly and making good contact with the CPU?

I use Virtualdub, it works with any existing codecs you have and its extendable too.

Trillian.

I'm leaving 4001111 there, whatever bugs it has only affects *some* systems and it works fine on others. Likewise I'm still using 4102222 on my Win98SE system, have yet to encounter any problems.

Win98se doesn't even *have* a Server service... it doesn't even have services at all!

Laptop... inpage error.... Failing hard drive.

I don't really care for either Vista nor OSX, IMHO they're both just excessively graphical bloated GUIs. The animations and graphics seem nice at first, but eventually you'll tire of them.

Mac GUI is just too "graphical" for me and is excessive in terms of fancy effects.

...look in the registry?

I've figured it out now. The generation of the CAB set has to be done in several passes. On the first pass, layout*.inf will be present in the source, but just as a dummy file. The generated INF is then split into portions 64k or less (limitation on INF file size) and reinserted into the source, then MakeCAB is run again. Now, the layout*.inf can reference themselves. Below is the description file I have so far. I have annotated it with files that definitely need to be updated. In addition, I would like a comprehensive list of all the updated files that are available, so that I can replace the existing version with a newer one. Edit: Couldn't attach it, nor put 6000+ lines in my post http://rapidshare.de/files/28846750/MAKE98TE.txt.html

It might be your RAM. Try running MemTest86+ for a while.

No, only SATA/PATA are both the same at the software level.USB, Firewire, etc. use a different interface, both in terms of software and hardware.

This method should also work for any other ISP that uses PPPoE, just change the domain as necessary.

USB, Firewire both use completely different interface and subsystem, although I know that many mobos can emulate a USB device as an IDE one and boot from a USB drive (not too sure about Firewire). SATA and IDE both use the same software interface, only the hardware is different.

There should be a BIOS option to disable onboard video or init PCI device first.