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Story continues... I played with IRQ steering - total disaster :-( It seems that Win is not able to assign correct IRQ to USB2.0 without BIOS. I tried many combination, for the moment I had IRQ 3 assigned to USB2.0 (not working anyway), but it could be displaying error in Device Manager. I did not try IRQ steering = disabled with Plug and Play OS=No, but it looks like BIOS always gives IRQ 10 to both USB2.0 and SATA controller. Disabling ACPI BIOS IRQ table causes only loosing of both IDE & SATA controller. So to install USB2.0 correctly I need to live with IRQ steering enabled. That was bad part of the story. I started to look at options I have for different controllers. Nforce3 250 has one dual channel IDE controller ( I have one HD and one DVD on it) and one dual channel SATA controller. Win98SE installs drivers for both, however I don't need it for 98SE (SATA driver is NTFS used under XP). Removing device for SATA causes both device to be reported as not working correctly, but I found option on Dual IDE controller device to set 'No channels enabled' and then... NO IRQ for SATA ANYMORE !!!! Installed OrangeWare USB 2.0 drivers, IRQ 10 assigned and system works, USB flash detected. I managed to install almost all drivers and updates now, including IE6.0. Some still left including sp2.1a. In my case this is ok, however it would be more challenging to make SATA drive FAT32 formatted working under Win98SE. I don't think so, it is possible to install W2000 SATA driver under 98SE, but can have a look. Anyway, issue with USB2.0 and SATA seems to be solved for me, I will let you know after installation is completed and tested.

I don't think that installing NUSB 3.12 (if they install at all in 98SE) will change IRQ assigment, which seems to be the problem. Yesterday I disabled SATA controller in BIOS and system worked ok, so now I am 100% sure there is conflict between SATA and USB 2.0. It could be the issue that nforce3 has no IDE driver for Win98se, so SATA controller is handled by standard MS driver (not like in XP). Why do you suggest disabling IRQ steering ? On many sites including MS KB it is recommended to keep it always enabled in Win98Se. I can try but I think it will cause only problems with devices installation. I could be wrong, but when IRQ is disabled, Win98Se is not able to set IRQs etc, they are defined by BIOS. Sometimes BIOS defines data only for on-board devices causing problem when installing PCI cards.

Hi. Maybe somebody has idea how to solve that. I trying to install Win98se on my PC which has ATA and SATA drives. SATA is NTFS so not visible for WIN98SE. Everything seems to be ok, until I install USB 2.0 driver. Win98SE worked on this PC in the past, so I suspect there is some conflict between USB 2.0 and SATA drive. USB HW is ok, I can use devices with USB 1.1 speed (suported by 98SE without 3rd party drivers). Installing USB 2.0 drivers causes system slowndown or not boot at all after restart. I've tried with both OrangeWare and Maximus ( with Maximus system starts but USB devices are not detected). I checked IRQ and USB 2.0 controller seems to share IRQ 10 with SATA controller, however I could not change USB 2.0 IRQ in any way, always back to IRQ 10. OS Plug & Play in BIOS has no effect on this, tried to install with both. My PC is ASUS K8N (nforce3) + Athlon64. Any ideas other than disconnecting ;-) SATA drive ?

I restored riched20.dll from original WIN98SE CD, but no lack :-(, same error happens. Will still play with some new riched20.dll version, but now I think problem is somewhere else. Any ideas are welcome, I could not find anywhere solution to this issue.

I looked at the problem a bit deeper. It seems it has something with riched20.dll library. I guess chain is: msinfo32 is using eyedog.ocx that calls functions from riched20.dll file. I found that riched20.dll on my PC is dated 2004 so much newer than win98se system files. But still no idea what is the source of problem. I will try to extract riched20.dll from Win98 CD, but any suggestions are welcome.

I'm really sorry, but I don't know why I mentioned msconfig.exe :-( Maybe blind ;-) In fact I have problem with System Utility Tool ->msinfo32.exe. When I go to Hardware Resources or Components and try to see ex. IRQs, I get "msinfo32 caused page fault in EYEDOG.OCX". It happens always, so it is not random. I searched Internet about this, and it seems problem is known, but could not find solution. There are some articles suggesting reinstalling WordPad or IE, but this not help. I don't think it is memory>512KB issue, anyway I have SP2.1a installed which claims to solve 512KB bug :-) Any ideas ? What is the last version of msinfo32.exe and EYEDOG.OCX ? Is there any newer than from WIN98SE original CD ?

Hi, Maybe somebody could help - I am running Win98SE with IE 6.0 SP1 on ASUS K8N board (nforce3) with 1GB memory. I can start msconfig.exe, but when I click on any item from list it always crashes. Is any patch/upgrade to msconig.exe for Win98SE ? Did you face such problem ? Michal