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Thanks for all the I/P. The annoying thing is it was working fine before I did the re-install so I'm figuring it's something wrong with the install itself. I guess I'll leave it for now until I can get a router into my office and cable it directly, then hopefully the problem will go away. Maybe I'll try and use the unsecured wireless network that I'm picking up ... lol As an afterthought it is all working fine on the XP system - again a pointer that there is something wrong with the install. I don't really want to go through that again but will if I have to.

I have this PC setup as a dual boot system and it works fine with XP, it's onlt on Win98 that I'm seeing the problem. Unfortunately I don't have the option of moving closer to the router but the signal strength is good when I get the problems. Before I did the re-install of Windows 98, I did get signal problems but usually this just involved a failure to find a page and a retry would work. This is different altogether - I seem to be losing the link completely. I either have to reboot or run ipconfig to renew the IP address (even though the wireless monitor shows that there is still a connection to the router and the IP address after is always the same). The card is a Belkin 54g PCI card.

Now the next problem- never had so many problems on a re-install before. After managing to 1. download and install IE 6 and then use this to get the WIndows 98 SE critical updates, also downloaded Firefox and Thunderbird as well as a couple of other packages, I'm getting a problem browsing. From a fresh boot the the browser IE or Firefox gets its home page and maybe one or two pages following that then fails completely and won't even get the home page as if I had no network connection. Now I was getting this problem before the 98 critical updates but it seemed OK at least while I was doing the downloads. I have a wireless connection to my broadband modem and run Kerio Personal Firewall and AVG anti-virus. The only difference in my config prior ro the re-install (where the netowrk worked fine) was I used McAfee anti-virus. As far as I can seen there is nothing in either of these that is causing the connection to be dropped. I can get the connection back either by re-boot or running ipconfig and releasing and renwing the IP address for the wireless cnnection. Anbody have any suggestions as to what I can try to cure the problem?

Thanks for the info and I did have a look to see if the issue had already been raised but couldn;t find one. I have in fact solved the problem. I suspected it may have been an IE5 issue and, after installing IE6, the update process now works. Currently I am installing the updates. Many thanks though for taking the time to answer.

Having resolved my SATA drive problem and re-installed Windows98 SE, I'm now at the stage where I.m trying to get Windows updates installed but I'm having a problem with the update procedure. Since this is a fresh install it is IE5 that is installed and I'm not sure if this is the problem or not. I get to the windows update page, it checks and (I think installed a new version of windows update) then when I get it to scan for updates, the progress indicator never goes over 0% and then I get a page saying that there was a problem: Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page and quotes the error number 80072F89. Has microsoft pulled the 98 updates or is there something else wrong?

OK, problem solved. It seems pulling the IDE cables on both drives works. The SATA drive becomes the C drive and stays like that even after the IDE drives are re-cabled. When I added it the IDE drives were cabled and the SATA drive became the E drive. I assumed that this was the way that the drives were numbered. Thanks anyway.

Hi, I've just bought a SATA drive for my system which already has 2 IDE drives on it. The original C drive contained Windows 98SE and I now want to add XP as a dual boot system. I planned to install both systems on the new SATA drive (shows as drive E) but find that installation of either systems writes all the boot info to the old C drive. I want to keep the two IDE drives on the system but also want the option of replacing them at some later stage (eg. probably adding a second SATA drive). Since there is boot info on the C drive this means that I am stuck with this drive unless I can find a way to get both Win98SE and XP to install completely on the SATA drive so that this is bootable. My motherboard supports booting from this disk, so this isn't the problem, and I know I can get a bootable system on the SATA drive (I have a second system with dual boot XP and Linux but this only has a SATA drive). Disconnecting the C and D drives then installing seemed to be a solution but the drive letters all change when they are reconnected and the system again fails to boot. Am I missing something simple or is it just not possible to have a mixed IDE/SATA system with the SATA drive as the bootable disk? Hoping somebody can help and apologies if this is the wrong forum. George