Windows 98 se help

ChrisLandin

ChrisLandin

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Hiya all,

My grans pc went do lally tonight and before I came out to work, I had a go at trying to get it to work for her. I cant, im a failure.

I hope one of you guys can help.

She has no spare cash so im not needing an upgrade solution here im just wanting to get her back reading her email.

The pc is a pentium 3 based machine ( ancient I know ) running windows 98, I believe its the millenium edition and to connect to the net it has an intel pro 100 s desktop adapter.

Ive tried with the official drivers from intels site stuck them on a usb drive but I cant get them to install, how do I do it?? Ive never played with pc's before vista so im totally clueless here.

Thanks in advance,
Chris
 
sounds like a beast

do you have any installation software?
is it a supermarket pc or one got from a major oem?
 
Its years old. An old time machine. There are no disks that i can find. Like i said she is a pensioner so a new os is out the question, she just cant plain afford it. Yea its a killer. 500 mhz cpu!!! Eat your heart out 5ghz sandy boys haha. I just want it working for her so she can mail her sister in oz.
 
Which is it, 98 or ME (Millennium Edition), as they are both quite different.

How did you try "installing" the driver? Did you try a setup.exe included in the drivers themselves, or did you do it the better way, by opening device manager and performing a driver update, manually pointing to the drivers?

To be quite honest, if it's for email, I'd back the emails up to CD/DVD/USB and install an OS that isn't incredibly old, unreliable, and clunky.

I know you said no to "upgrading", but ubuntu will run fine, and it's free.
 
What does the Intel driver do then? It seems to be an .exe file so you'd expect that it at least extracts the driver and a reference to it on the system. You may need to manually install the driver yourself by picking it from the list and pointing the Have Disk at the correct location. It's unlikely that it'll install automatically.

Windows 98 was a right pain with networking as you needed to reboot every single time you made a configuration change. Still though once you get it up and running it should work just fine.
 
ChrisLandin said:
Hiya all,

My grans pc went do lally tonight and before I came out to work, I had a go at trying to get it to work for her. I cant, im a failure.

I hope one of you guys can help.

She has no spare cash so im not needing an upgrade solution here im just wanting to get her back reading her email.

The pc is a pentium 3 based machine ( ancient I know ) running windows 98, I believe its the millenium edition and to connect to the net it has an intel pro 100 s desktop adapter.

Ive tried with the official drivers from intels site stuck them on a usb drive but I cant get them to install, how do I do it?? Ive never played with pc's before vista so im totally clueless here.

Thanks in advance,
Chris
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I'm going to assume it is finding the usb drive when you plug it in? Win 98 was terrible for installing usb drivers correctly and recognising the hardware.

What actually happens when you try to install the drivers? Just does not work? Error msg? or does it appear to be installing fine?

I've had loads of fun with 98 and ME. So might be able to help.
 
Be nice to your grand and source her a machine, I Recon you can get one for for free?

I might have a p4 system you can have for free.
 
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Treznor said:
I'm going to assume it is finding the usb drive when you plug it in? Win 98 was terrible for installing usb drivers correctly and recognising the hardware.

What actually happens when you try to install the drivers? Just does not work? Error msg? or does it appear to be installing fine?

I've had loads of fun with 98 and ME. So might be able to help.
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The usb drive works well sort of.

What I did was download the drivers for the card from intels website and obviously got the correct version ( its ME by the way ).

I then booted my grans pc which works just fine now apart from the internet. I can open the usb drive via my computer and all files are there but when I go to manually add the driver through found new hardware and have disk etc the files are missing.

Im totally stuck
 
Treznor said:
I'm going to assume it is finding the usb drive when you plug it in? Win 98 was terrible for installing usb drivers correctly and recognising the hardware.

What actually happens when you try to install the drivers? Just does not work? Error msg? or does it appear to be installing fine?

I've had loads of fun with 98 and ME. So might be able to help.
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Yes it finds the drive.

It appears to install, well I think so anyway but then after the reboot the net still wont work and it says the drivers arnt installed.

You will have to forgive me for being a bit vague here ive just got out of bed
 
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