Re: Computer Sheddi assistance

mabel syrup wrote:
<delurk>
Long story, which starts with a new PCI wireless card, and ends with a
dead disk, A reinstall, and an unhappy version of Windows 98. If any
of you fine people could help ...

The merely exceedingly difficult we lose the tuits for before breakfast, the impossible we can embark upon right now I spose. Can I assume the dead disk was the only disk, and if so, how big is the new one, and how was the win98 installation/restoration done? Partitions and details thereof might be important...

To cut to the chase: I have both 98 and XP running on an old box
(AX6BC motherboard ).

That is old if it is what I think it is - possibly old enough to be problematic with some recent drivers and possibly even an arj hard disk above a certain size.

> After a number of hardware probs,

Ooh - what were they?

I re-
installed XP into a new partition, and that's running OK, but the
existing win98SE (which spotted the hardware moves and nagged about
the hide-and-seek playing install CD) is pretty flaky.

That sort of suggests drive letter re-arrangements might have happened. Win98 can take exception to that. Any ancient software installed in XP may also have done unsavoury things to the Win98 installation if Win98 remained as drive C and the installation was hard coded. Some modern stuff can be a bit dodgy like that as well.

The graphics
has reverted to a basic mode, and trying to re-install the drivers
gets a message which claims that no nvidia chips can be found
(although XP spotted them).

That could be because the old drivers are still installed with settings that aren't helping. Have you completely removed the old drivers?

> The USB printer "needs user intervention"
- (again, XP OK), and a bit of poking shows that devmgr can't see any
USB interfaces.

Did that jbex at any point between replacing the disk and installing XP? Again, complete removal and replacement of all the printer software might help, unless the Win98 USB subsystem has been compromised, in which case there is a paddle up a gum tree with advice scrawled on it which you won't like.

Any suggestions as to why 98 appears to be snubbing the devices that
the BIOS and XP seem to be talking to in a very friendly manner? Mr
Google didn't find anything appropriate when I asked.

Go into safe mode in Win98, remove all related software and drivers from affected hardware, then try re-installing them again when not in safe mode. That would expend some tuits, but not necessarily with any great chances of fixing things as uninstall routines in Win98 software were often a bit penc. The rssbeg might be better spent on getting your Win98 apps to jbex in XP, which does have various compatibility modes to run older software, but can get a bit involved to get right.
A re-install from scratch of Win98 might help, but will mean XP will need repairing afterwards. Awkward, but not impossible, and if the current state of the hardware is responsible for the prarlms, it might not help at all.

(Before you ask, there are a couple of lagacy apps that I still run on
98)
TOBAGO!? --------------------------------^^^^^^

Plan[9] B would be to get advice on what to do to migrate the lagacy apps, but I can't offer any advice without knowing what they are, other than the longer you leave it the more difficult it will get.

Plan C and beyond would involve an arj PC with enough oomph to run virtualisation or summat, but would prolly borrow from plan B TAAW, and mean lots of stuff to learn.

[9] All plans involving winders can be assumed to need a reboot between each bit.

--
JimP
"We don't have a plan, so nothing can go wrong" - Spike Milligna.
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