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I've got a dandy of a problem now! So I am trying to get Wireless working on my PC after USB wasn't working I decided to switch to a PCI card. I found one that had drivers and started working on the system today. Here is the issue. When the PCI Card is inserted: - Windows Protection Error - Can only boot into Safe Mode When PCI card is not inserted: - Windows boots into Normal Mode without error. Here are the specs: OS: Win98 FE modified board: Intel D850MV RAM: 768MB RDRAM PC800 CPU: Pentium 4 2.0GHz Video: ATI Radeon 9600XT 256MB AGP Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Live PCI Wireless card: D-Link DWL-G510 PCI I have 5 PCI Slots, and I have tried two of them already. Not interested in moving the SB card at this point. I have tried the following: - Use MSCONFIG to temp disable autoexec.bat (it only has paths), config.sys (OS would not load), win.ini, system.ini and startup programs. - Ran registry checker (no errors) - Ran ASD (1 error, checked and rebooted) - Removed ghost drivers in Safe Mode - Ran step by step, load Win drivers, say N to all. - Set Plug and Play OS in BIOS to No. So I am wondering if this is possibly caused by a resource conflict or lack of resources? If this is so, any BIOS settings that may be helpful? Currently all resource allocation is set to AUTO in the BIOS. I could map the resources out and assign them manually I suppose. Also, the BIOS has onboard sound, parallel port and serial ports set to disabled. I am also worried about running SFC since it may remove the custom files I have. Some updates found on MSFN, some files from Win98 SE and some old hacked files (like logo.sys, etc) so hopefully that won't be an answer. Also a reinstall is going to be out of the question for me. What I will try while waiting for any ideas: 1. Remove LPT and COM devices from Device Manager in Safe Mode 2. Map out used resources in Normal Mode without the card inserted. 3. Try the other 2 slots.

I replaced CODE wit CODEBOX, but the preview looks the same so I have not changed my post. Yeah I later found out that both are semi-bugged.

I'm running out of time to fix up this PC. Tomorrow is the day I will get to work on it again. I have secured a PCI Wireless G card to test with, D-Link DWL-G510: http://www.dlink.com/products/?tab=3&pid=DWL-G510&rev=DWL-G510_revB Has anyone used this one on 98? If this works, I will have to turn G speed back on my router at home, and then my PS3 can go online again too! Speaking of which, is there any media-streaming capabilities between Win98 and PS3? Do you think that the PS3 will be able to see the ShoutCast server once I get that up and running again?

I have noticed that Windows Defender is turned off on my systems that have MSSE installed but I have Windows 7... Also, I found this too: It is from here: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msestart/thread/0f33629e-abf8-4563-83ee-b4977c8d0b23

What hardware did you replace?

This could be an issue with the display. Can you post your video card and display models?

I've seen this type of loss on infected systems. When the HDD is reporting full, see if you can find what folder has the most files. When I ran into this, I found a 40GB Windows folder, but after evaluating the files in that folder, I only found 4GB. You are likely dealing with super-hidden files and folders, which means you can't see them in Windows or from WinPE. I could see them in NTFSDOS. Otherwise you could have a drive that is going bad. You can try running an HD Tester on it, but you'd need to post your hard drive model. Memory dumps (full ones) will take up some space, about 2-4GB but they would take up this space without you knowing it.

The INF for the driver will need to have the HwID for the printer in it. If it is written correctly for the target OS, and there is no other driver file in the system for that HwID, Windows should use that INF to install the driver. I am presuming that you are looking to install this driver into a live OS instead of an image?

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Well Blizzard has used server farms for Battle.net as far back as when Diablo II: LOD came out. The exact configuration could be anything really. They could have a couple high-end systems or they could have a hundred mid-range systems. It is still common that the world's fastest computers are actually parallel processing systems that use fairly low-end processors. For example, when Sandia National Labs' Amazing Teraflops Machine went operational, it was made up of a few thousand 200MHz CPUs or something. Actually: http://www.sandia.gov/media/online.htm

The CODE tag has a problem, but CODEBOX works fine in its place. So try using CODEBOX if CODE isn't working for you until this issue is fixed.

First verify that there are not files in this folder: %REMINST%\Boot\x86\Images Where %REMINST% is the path to your RemoteInstallation folder. Second, this information in WDS is not kept in a flat file or in the registry, but in the WDS database. The app WDSUTIL has the ability to modify this information, see if you can remove the boot image by using this tool: WDSUtil Remove-Image As for where the actual database file or what programs can manually edit it, I have not found that out.

That's interesting that Dell would send you (a home user) to here (MSFN) to install your OS (which comes with a 1k per lic/cal price tag) to use nLite (a non-commercial product). In any event SBS Premium 2003 does indeed come on 4 CDs (there's actually more) but I am pretty certain that discs 3 and 4 (and 5 and the Outlook CD, etc) are not required for install. In any case, I know many have had problems combining multi-disc OS installs because at the end of "Disc 1" the install will prompt you to insert "Disc 2" which actually doesn't exist anymore. In the end, if you are using this in your company, be it commercial, government or education sector, you can't use nLite. Its license agreement strictly forbids it. So that being said, why do you need to combine these discs? Is there a specific reason?

It is Microsoft supplied documentation and best practices that say to make them all primary partitions. In order for high-volume OEMs to sell computers with Windows on them, they have to follow strict guidelines but these limitations are still worthwhile to them. As far as the 100MB partition (I've seen them as large as 500MB) that is not for the MBR. The MBR exists before the start of that partition. It is primarily there for BitLocker usage, however if that partition is removed, the BCD will need to be updated in order for Windows to load. As already discussed many times, Windows 7 can work both with and without this partition.

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You can forget about the OS-level settings since you are having a problem with the browser. First try another browser (mozilla or chrome based) and see if those work. If they do not, you can look at OS-level troubleshooting. Things to try (troubleshooting only) 1. Set Internet security to Low 2. If you have a router or cable modem, try to connect to their internal pages. 3. Try to restore the Advance Settings button on the Advanced Tab. 4. Try going to this link: about:Tabs

I've had some experience with Deep Freeze as well but I didn't like it very much. The Ram-Overlay option in XP Embedded (haven't tried W7WES yet) seems to be a better option for my tastes. Another option would be using the thin/thick client solution provided my Microsoft, but the name escapes me at the moment. PS: I wanted to add that I have successully defeated a system with Deep Freeze and an XPe with Ram-Overlay. Neither is perfect. Thin Clients may be the most secure, I haven't tried breaking one of those yet.

I suppose it may be possible to delete the boot image out of Reminst, but since it is so small (under 500MB) why not just leave it disabled and ignore it? I had multiple disabled boot images on my old WDS so it wasn't too big of a deal, especially if they aren't taking up much hard drive space.

The AppDeploy I found is an MSI repackager. You shouldn't have a problem doing a silent on an MSI unless it has a wrapper like MSSE or Nero does.

I'm not sure about this part, but your Prefix is different than the documentation. In the future use the CODE tags for posting XML.

Did you read the note? TechNet

Where do these logs live? Are they in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SYSPREP\ ??? yes that and c:\windows\panther

Finally, someone posted about a board I've actually used. Things to try: - try using less RAM (for test) like 4GB - run memtest - try take out the memory and then turn on PC. It should beep. If it doesn't... - reseat the CPU I've had a semi-brick motherboard, this one doesn't sound so bad.