re: Thus far, the frustration persists
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 10:33 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11807 messages posted)
Kiwi
When win98se came out ,there was no Lite-On cd-dvd so it sounds like you will need
to add a item or two to the boot disk , so it can load the rom up.
CDROM.SYS 35kb 2-14-2003
RedBook.sys 35kb 11-5-1999
storprop.dll 35kb 11-30.1999
On Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 9:29 pm, Kiwi wrote:
>I have downloaded all three versions of the "OEM" images at Bootdisk.Com and still
>must play in DOS, much as I no longer have the ready skills to do it with. Each
>has the same Oak Sys generic CD driver that will fail when it gets to Mechanism
#2.
> And twice these have been such solid freeze symptoms that they affected the KVM
>switch {I do not have space for three displays and three keyboards (well, the laptop's
>display & keyboard almost don't count, do they?), although I am stuck with three
>mice, or swap a mouse around before switching over}.
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>I've had to kill the power to the KVM device to be able to access this system I'm
>connected to the Internet on.
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>Now what I have to do is borrow the actual alternate CD driver setup from the first
>Bootdisk I already had on hand and use it to modify one of these three I got from
>there tonight. But I'm fresh out of blank usable floppies (I have boxes of them,
>I can reformat, stashed in a closet, under a ton of other stuff, like blankets and
>comforters and quilts, you know, winter kinds of things). And it's past time to
>sleep, what with having been up since about six thirty this morning.
>
>Thanks for the suggestion! I'll find out tomorrow if it's going to actually work!
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>Kiwi
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