Your biggest problem will be the GPU, ATI Catalyst 6.2 (latest for Windows 98/ME) supports the X600 desktop GPU and you may well be able to use ATI Mobility Modder to mod them to install for the mobile version of the chip as well. I used to use this for my mobility X1700 GPU (although on XP)

I am currently running setup and its crashing on the plug and play devices part.
Any way to fix it?

Peter Ian Staker wrote:

I am currently running setup and its crashing on the plug and play devices part.
Any way to fix it?

If there's any way to remove any additional components or disable everything in the BIOS, that'd be a good place to start. Remove any wifi cards, PCMCIA cards, etc.

Yeah, sometimes you just gotta strip the PC down to the essentials: Hard drive, processor, 128MB memory, and a video card, then when Windows is up and running, start adding stuff back in ONE DEVICE AT A TIME. Install it, boot to Windows, install drivers, reboot and see if Windows is stable and the device works. Shut down, add another device, boot into Windows....etc.

Thanks everyone.
I managed to fix the problem by restarting setup with the plug and play support disabled since there isn't much I can remove from the laptop with dissasembling it again.
Now the only important component without a driver is the x600 mobility radeon. Any idea where I can find a compatible driver?

Did you try using the ATI Mobility Modder program with the latest Windows 98 driver (Catalyst 6.2) ?

The 6.2 driver supports the Desktop x600, if nothing else you can just modify the .INF file by putting in the appropriate device ID for your mobility version

I'd just go with XP. You will be surprised how many 98 era games will actually work just fine 😀

Plus a few later games as well.

X600 supports Win 98 just fine and a number of other laptops with the same or similar gpu from the same generation such as the Thinkpad T4x series as well the Dell Inspiron 9300 ect. The drivers need are posted somewhere here on vogons by another user.

Dunno if DriverPack is 9x compatible but I'd give it a try.

drp.su

Would the last 9x OmegaDrivers package work? That would be the first thing I would try.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

I'd just go with XP. You will be surprised how many 98 era games will actually work just fine 😀

Plus a few later games as well.

I will eventually when I get an sata to ide adaptor and put an SSD in there.
I am just messing around with the original drive.
In the meantime it doesn't seem to be able to recognize usb drives and I am having real trouble getting files into it.

Peter Ian Staker wrote:

I am currently running setup and its crashing on the plug and play devices part.
Any way to fix it?

The source of this is USB controllers.
Just reset, wait the second freeze, reset again. Then the install will continue.
Have the Xpress 200M Notebook, symptoms are similar.