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There is already a serial number in the BIOS, it is displayed on the bottom of the POST screen during bootup.

Where I am, there are large datacenters that still use mid 1970s mainframes. Also, for some mission-critical applications DOS is still used as a kernel, again due to its maturity and lack of bugs (count how many "fixes" have been released for XP, compared with any of the earlier OSs. If I remember correctly, DOS 3.30 never had *any* fixes issued after its release.) Maybe stability, but definitely not speed or compatibility.Compatibility has not improved, for example the XP DOS emulator lacks many features and its speed is slow and intermittent. Setting ntvdm's priority to High or Realtime improves the performance, but the rest of the system becomes almost unresponsive. Speed has definitely not improved. All that's gotten faster is the hardware, not the software. The software continues to become less efficient. A look at the system requirements for XP vs 2K or any of the earlier OSs clearly shows this. More CPU and RAM are required for the newer OS.

Here are some more HDD utilities: http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/

Doesn't 98se already come with IE 5.5?

I think the video card will still work even if it doesn't detect a monitor, since it always outputs the signal - but yours may be a special case. I've never had to install any drivers for a monitor on any of my systems.

I have never heard of a "QDIgrp WinneX 1E" mobo before... It might be a power supply problem - what is the current PSU in the machine?

Depends on cluster size. Size: FS: Space occupied by FAT 512 (FAT32) - 8Mb 1024 (FAT32) - 4Mb 2048 (FAT32) - 2Mb 4096 (FAT32) - 1Mb 8192 (FAT32) - 512Kb 16384 (FAT32) - 256Kb 16384 (FAT16) - 128Kb 32768 (FAT32) - 128Kb 32768 (FAT16) - 64Kb

In that case it's probably considering the whole system memory to be the video memory.

$25USD for a 25Gb rewritable disk? A bit expensive for optical media... ordinary hard drives are cheaper per Gb than that.

It may also be a single Macromedia Flash SWF file, in which case saving the SWF is all that you need.

Disable unneeded background services and try again. Anything from a Pentium 233MMX upwards should have enough processor power to play DVDs.

Good to see more than one user having no difficulties with maximum resource consumption on 98se Here's the result of opening up 17 IEs each containing graphics-intensive pages, 1 Word XP, and 1 Photoshop 7 with a huge image: http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/4946/0res9wg.gif The system remained perfectly usable and responsive throughout. Closing everything brought resources free back up to 87%.

Do you notice anything about the weather on the days that it occurs? Is it particularly sunny or rainy? I have a wireless router and it seems to want to cut the connection once in a while. Happens more often on sunny days than rainy days Must be air pressure or something similar affecting the circuitry...

chkdsk the drive. The directory structure may be corrupted.

WD seems to be the best so far.

I know that on Intel integrated graphics the amount of video memory is adjustable, it might be the same for these nVidias. The amount of video memory that it's showing may be the MAXIMUM amount allowed/.

USB 2.0 cables are not recommended to be over 2m in length.

You need EXIF reader, reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXIF to learn more.

Boot to a command prompt and deltree the whole content.ie5 directory. Also remove any references to files there in the Run keys.

A DOS 7.1 kernel with NTFSDOS+RW is what I use...

Disable spread-spectrum. It basically varies the clock frequency continuously and rapidly ±10% to spread the radio frequency emissions over a larger spectrum with less strength. It's not needed unless the interference is causing other problems, as that 10% clock frequency change is enough to destablise an edgy overclock.

That's for hard drives. A real 256Mb card should store exactly 268435456 bytes, it's just a natural power of 2 for solid-state memory.Format it fully, then tell us what it says under Capacity in the drive properties. If it's still 244, the remaining 12Mb are bad sectors which are common in cheap solid-state memory.

No mobo I've seen so far allows independent voltages for the RAM slots, so both of them will have to overvolt. Just increase the voltage to the first increment above default (+0.1v, +5%, etc.). Continue until you've reached the maximum for the mobo or the RAM begins to work correctly, whichever comes first.I don't think dirt would cause this problem, as removing and reinserting effectively wipes the contacts free of any dust.

Idling at ~50° is much too hot. Your "load" temperature is actually not even at full load, maybe 1/2 at most; run a program like CPUBURN/BURNP6 for a few minutes and see what happens - probably going to go over 80° if left long enough. Your fans are spinning too slow. Disabling temperature control will help by always running the fan at full speed, but even so the CPU is still too hot. Reapply the thermal compound, using a very thin layer. Many times the factory-applied layer is too thick. For comparison, my 3.6GHz P4 (single core, HT) is overclocked to 4.17 and idles in the low 20°s, full load (BURNP6 for 6 hours) around 50°.

Defrag your hard drive and disable unnecessary background services and programs while burning.