My new 'spare' PC...
Following the demise of the 'spare' computer a few weeks ago (discussed in here), I have managed to aquire another base unit which was being disposed of. Seems to be a 1.2ghz celeron, 128mb ram, 20gig HD and a TNT 32mb vid card. Not bad for free!
Decided to do a fdisk / format/ full install of win98SE. All going well except for two problems.
1: I got hold of the latest W98 drivers for the TNT card, but, after installation, the machine either fails to boot, or comes up with a window which says that the 'hardware may not be compatible with the settings you have chosen' - it is irrelevant whether I have changed it from 256 colours, or increased the resolution, or no changes at all.
2: I have put a different modem in and loaded the drivers, however the PC cannot find the modem. Whats worrying is that it is only looking on COM 1 and 2, not trying COM3 where I would expect to find it. I have read somewhere today that removing the modem, booting, shutting down, refitting the modem and booting might do the trick and sort out the IRQ's etc., so I may well give that a try unless others sugest otherwise.
Any tips?