thanks, I address some issues below.
bill cameron wrote:
>
> well david here is a real good reason why hj should support
>
> control plus alt plus delete keystroke end task menu.
agreed, but I've used the cd install before with no problems. it is
likely that the nav shield he had running caused the crash. I did not
disable it so that was an over site on my part.
>
> more than likely your win 95 crash would have been prevented.
>
> i personally am leary of installing win 98 on older hardware.
>
> to many unexplained things, now i assume this system is older.
about two years.
>
> you did not say, but arken clones used to use older mother boards with no p s
> 2 mouse.
yep, and a host of others did the same thing.
>
> now if you want to retry win 98 i suggest seeing if the mother board has an
> bios upgrade.
I'll look in to that.
>
> this is the approach i used before doing a win 98 upgrade, and all my stuff is
> plug and play.
>
> i noticed that my mother board, which is award bios, and many notebooks had
> bios upgrades after the release of win 98.
>
> in addition you are using an upgrade version on win 98?
no, I used the oem version and booted from its supplied floppy which
by the way is grand because it can force cd rom support on a system
even if the drivers are not there.
>
> if so you may want to try the version for new computers, microsoft has already
> upgraded it once, and soon they will upgrade it again to a version that has
>
> i e 5.
>
> you see the upgrade may be more apt to work with older hardware as m s gets
> better hardware support in win 98.
Hmmm, my oem version came out when .98 did.
>
> of course you must start from stratch.
>
we did thanks.
> also the original win 98 does not like u s robotics modems.
good to know but I have one in my system and it works but I have a
problem with it because of my dell configuration. I can resolve it
though.
>
> one needs to get driver from 3 com.
oops, did that.
>
> bill
> good luck
>
> you are biteing off more than i would.
the water's fine.
>
> if the bios is version 1 you can go up to bios 2.0 to 2.03 depending on bios.
>
> if bios is 4 then your mother board is much newer and can expect the latest
> upgrade.
>
> the 1 and 2 bios is limitted, by space, when 4 came out the bios was upgrade to
> 1 or 2 meg of memory makeing room for all kinds of upgrades.
>
> 2 meg is in systems with u s b.
>
> no idea about your sill problem, totally stumped.
glad to have company. The rest of .98 seems to work. we are going to
try loading in the dec drivers. this is a dec internal synth.
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