Re: How to completely erase Windows 98 SE from hard disk

Posted on 2022-12-19, 20:50

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by assortedkingdede

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Insert a boot disk then formatting the hard drive clean. though what i'd also try to do is run F-PROT to see if there's a funky prehistoric virus in there, and if not, it could be a RAM/voltage/caps issue, or perhaps the hard drive corrupted a device driver like himem.sys Well I know it is a …

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How to completely erase Windows 98 SE from hard disk

Posted on 2022-12-19, 20:21

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by assortedkingdede

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I have been trying to resolve an error where Windows 98SE starts into dos mode, beeps twice and then shows a bunch of gibberish on the screen. When I reinstalled the operating system the same error happened. How can I completely erase the contents of the hard disk so everything is clean slate. ( …

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Re: How to get a PCI Ethernet Card that Windows won't detect working

Posted on 2022-12-02, 02:31

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by assortedkingdede

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How was issue solved? And what motherboard are you trying to install it on? One thing to be aware of is that most RTL8139C and D cards require PCI 2.2 and 3.3V, which is not available on many older (BX-era and before) boards. Tried a different driver and repositioned the card as well as rebooting …

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Re: How to get a PCI Ethernet Card that Windows won't detect working

Posted on 2022-12-01, 03:53

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by assortedkingdede

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Issue solved but now windows wants to tell me on startup that I am missing a bunch of .vxd files that I don't need. How do I get rid of this? Thanks!

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How to get a PCI Ethernet Card that Windows won't detect working

Posted on 2022-12-01, 03:40

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by assortedkingdede

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I got a PCI Realtek RTL8139D windows won't detect the card. Installing drivers does nothing. The card seems to power up but shows no activity (The LED's on it are lit). What should I do? Thanks!

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Re: How can I improve performance on Half Life running on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-11-25, 21:21

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by assortedkingdede

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For some reason this comes up quite often here but you'd think it would be common knowledge by now. The newer versions of the unofficial SP you are using uses a file from Windows ME. If it bothers you then you either have to hexedit that file or revert that file or use an old version of the SP or …

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Re: How can I improve performance on Half Life running on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-11-25, 21:20

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by assortedkingdede

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Mine is the same way. windows 98 se identifies as me... Have you installed a later patch for half life ? also check for latest geforce drivers.. You can still get them from the nvidia web site under legacy drivers... also what resolution are you running at ? other than that your system specs should …

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How can I improve performance on Half Life running on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-11-25, 20:24

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by assortedkingdede

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Half Life runs decent on my Win 98 build but I think I could be much better. There are frame rate dips when there is more action on screen. The recommended specs are: Pentium 166 MHz 32 MB RAM OpenGL- or DirectX-compatible 3D accelerator. My specs are: Pentium III 866 Mhz 128 MB GeForce2 MX 100/200 …

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Re: Anyone know where to find Visual Studio 6.0 resources

Posted on 2022-08-15, 23:49

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Hi everyone. My father used to develop with Visual Basic 6 at some point, which also used Visual Studio 6 as its IDE. From what I remember, he had some MSDN Library CDs, too. I could be wrong, but I think the MSDN Library CDs contained a collection of examples, code snippets, documents and tools …

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Anyone know where to find Visual Studio 6.0 resources

Posted on 2022-08-15, 17:22

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I have been trying Visual C++ on Visual Studio 6 on Windows 98SE but I don't know where to get any documentation for it so I essentially have no idea what I am doing with anything other than the iostream library. Any info helps. Thanks!

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Re: 3.25 Floppy drive issues (Error 40)

Posted on 2022-08-06, 22:16

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I got a Panasonic floppy drive that spins up and turns on but the computer does not seem to like it. The computer flashes an error 40 on startup and the read indictator on the drive is constantly on. The cable I have looks fine and windows can see the drive but not use it. The cable seems to have …

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3.25 Floppy drive issues (Error 40)

Posted on 2022-08-06, 22:11

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I got a Panasonic floppy drive that spins up and turns on but the computer does not seem to like it. The computer flashes an error 40 on startup and the read indictator on the drive is constantly on. The cable I have looks fine and windows can see the drive but not use it. The cable seems to have an …

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Re: Anyone know how to get Silpheed to stop using the Beeper speaker?

Posted on 2022-08-05, 17:27

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by assortedkingdede

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What version of the game do you have? As I understand it, version 2.1 only supports MT-32 and two old IBM audio cards. Version 2.2 added support for Ad Lib. The installer writes its config into the file RESOURCE.CFG, so check in there what it's set to. Mine looks like this: EGA ADL.DRV NO HARD DISK …

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Re: Anyone know how to get Silpheed to stop using the Beeper speaker?

Posted on 2022-08-05, 16:59

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by assortedkingdede

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What version of the game do you have? As I understand it, version 2.1 only supports MT-32 and two old IBM audio cards. Version 2.2 added support for Ad Lib. The installer writes its config into the file RESOURCE.CFG, so check in there what it's set to. Mine looks like this: EGA ADL.DRV NO HARD DISK …

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Re: Anyone know how to get Silpheed to stop using the Beeper speaker?

Posted on 2022-08-05, 16:57

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by assortedkingdede

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What version of the game do you have? As I understand it, version 2.1 only supports MT-32 and two old IBM audio cards. Version 2.2 added support for Ad Lib. The installer writes its config into the file RESOURCE.CFG, so check in there what it's set to. Mine looks like this: EGA ADL.DRV NO HARD DISK …

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Anyone know how to get Silpheed to stop using the Beeper speaker?

Posted on 2022-08-05, 04:16

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by assortedkingdede

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I have been trying to get Silpheed to use the AWE64 sound card I have installed but it does not play any sound off it and instead uses the beeper no matter what option I choose in the installer. My soundcard should support this games adlib sound. Any info will help. Thanks!

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Windows overwrites custom autoexec.bat everytime DOS mode is loaded.

Posted on 2022-08-05, 04:12

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by assortedkingdede

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Everytime I load DOS mode in windows 98, it reverts my custom autoexec.bat to default and erases my custom configuration so how I can prevent this from happening? Thanks!

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Re: Windows 98 SE FDISK only creating 48 GB Partitions

Posted on 2022-08-04, 23:06

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Horun wrote on 2022-08-02, 00:39: There is a Win98 Fdisk fix by Microsoft. https://archive.org/details/windows-98-and-se … drive-fixes.-7z Are you using it ? I never used the fix I just figured out that despite what FDISK says, the disk gets formatted correctly.

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Windows 98 SE FDISK only creating 48 GB Partitions

Posted on 2022-08-01, 23:12

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by assortedkingdede

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I have been trying to use FDISK to create a partition to install windows on a 120 GB HDD. The motherboard can see the full size but FDISK keeps reporting that it made a 48 GB partition. I have created a larger partition on an SSD with FDISK but this is happening with an unformatted HDD. Any info …

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Re: A-10 Tank Killer II refusing to install

Posted on 2022-08-01, 03:23

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I have been trying to install the windows version of A-10 Tank Killer II but every time I am prompted to install the installer crashes and I get an illegal operation error. Any info will help, thanks! Managed to bypass the install by copying some files off the disk but the game now crashes when I …

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