KT7AGuy wrote:Basic Generic Win98SE Setup Instructions
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Basic Generic Win98SE Setup Instructions
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Copy the source files to the hard drive before installing Windows. This saves you from having to fish out your Win98SE CDROM each time the system needs to access something on it. Doing this makes things easier and more convenient, but will consume some hard drive space.
Create a "C:\Win98CD" directory.
Copy the entire contents of your Win98SE disc to "C:\Win98CD".
Remove the CDROM and boot with the Win98SE Boot Disk.
If you're using a Windows 98SE Upgrade CD instead of the full version, use a full version of Windows 95 or 98 as the base system, not MS-DOS 6.2 or earlier, as some of the upgraded Win9x MS-DOS tools are not included with the Windows 98SE Upgrade version and you'll be stuck with the old ones.
Videocard: install the latest stable drivers for your videocard of choice.
A note about DirectX:
Win98SE includes DX6 preinstalled.
If you have a DX8 video card, then install DX 8.1B (DX81eng.exe).
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A note about DirectX:
Win98SE includes DX6 preinstalled.
If you have a DX8 video card, then install DX 8.1B (DX81eng.exe).
The final version of DirectX 9.0c for Win98SE is dated 08 Dec 2006 (directx_dec2006_redist.exe).
http://falconfly.de/directx.htm
There is no reason not to install the latest version of DirectX 9.0c on any system, unless you have a game that is dependent on a specific older version and that won't work properly under DX 9.0c.
Also, IIRC, DirectX 5 (or was it 6?) tends to happily install itself over later versions of DirectX. If you have a game using that version of Direct X and you can't install the game without also installing DirectX, first install that game, and then the latest version of DirectX.
Adjust virtual memory & swap file appropriately. Lately I've been setting it to 128mb, but going as low as 64mb is probably fine too. If you're running 512mb RAM with Win98SE and the system is swapping at all, then the size of the swapfile isn't the problem.
I use the old, old Win 3.x trick of setting the swap file to 2.5 times the RAM size, on the fastest physical drive of course.
Verify that DMA is enabled for the Hard Drive and Optical Drives.
If this keeps getting reset to "disabled" after a crash, that may indicate a power issue...
Flash v9r280 (flashplayer9r280_win.exe) […]
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Flash v9r280 (flashplayer9r280_win.exe)
Flash for ActiveX v9r280 (flashplayer9r280_winax.exe)
Shockwave v10.3.0.24 (Shockwave_Installer_Full_10.3.0.24.exe)
Sun Java v1.4.2_19 (j2re-1_4_2_19-windows-i586-p.exe)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase … .4.2_19-oth-JPR
Don't install these if you don't need them or plan to use the machine to browse the web a lot. They are resource hogs and are full of dangerous security holes.
Atomic Clock Sync v2.7.0.3 (atomic.exe)
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/system_tool … nc.cfm/v2_7_0_3
Sync your system clock. This is great for when your CMOS battery is dying and keeps losing time.
It's better to simply replace the battery, as the BIOS will also lose other more important settings on some systems when the battery is dying.