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The Mission: Build a Windows 98 gaming machine using original boxed and sealed hardware. Everything below is NEW unless specified otherwise. The Build: OS: Windows 98SE Case/PSU: GAUSS SM307M (250w PSU included) Mobo: Intel SE440BX-2 Processor: Slot 1 Pentium III @ 733MHz with 133MHz Bus RAM: PNY 256MB PC100/133 (4 sticks available) Video Card: ATI Rage 128PRO 32MB (PCI) Sound Card: SoundBlaster 16 PCI (CT4810) HDD: Maxtor 15GB 7200RPM (51536H3) Optical: Creative Blaster 52x (MK4108) Monitor: Sony Trinitron CRT (used) KB/Mouse: Generic Microsoft Speakers: IBM (used) Where I'm at: The system has been built. PSU, CPU and intake fans all start. During the POST process I receive an error beep code: 1-4-3-3. According to this site the code description is: "Autosize the Cache". I have attempted to move the jumper plug from it's "normal" position to the "configure" position in hopes to set the Processor speed ect. However, this results in the same error beep code. I should also note at this point that my monitor receives no signal from the ATI Rage card. I am assuming that since the POST can't pass, no signal is even being sent from my video card technically. And hitting the num/caps/scroll lock keys don't light up, another sign that I am not passing POST. I have 2 VGA compatible monitors, both were tested with my laptop and work. I have tried various DIMM combinations too. A bit of Bro Science: If you look up the Intel manual for the SE440BX-2 (here) you will come across all sorts of information that would contradict my build due to apparent compatibility issues. Examples of this would be the small DIMM sizes and the slower Processor speeds listed as supported/compatible by Intel. However, after some digging into really old forums from around the Y2K era it became apparent to me that people were throwing in non-coppermine processors far exceeding 450MHz (up to the fastest Pentium III's) as well as using DIMM's that were double the size than what was officially listed as Intel as supported/compatible - and they worked. Technology was moving so insanely fast during this era that at the time Intel listed the supported DIMM size and Processor speeds ect, it would have been outdated by the time the motherboards started shipping! And the support list would have definitely been outdated a year later! I wanted to include this tid-bit just in case someone googles my motherboard, checks the specs or even reads the manual and sees that my Pentium III speed or DIMM size exceeds the manufactures supported hardware list. I found different numbers on different sites actually which was quite confusing. All that said, perhaps my issue is the 133MHz bus speed of my Pentium III. Maybe I need 100MHz bus speed, regardless of the main clock speed. Maybe I screwed up on that one... The only other thread I could find in regards to my issue is found here. Though I have built systems in recent years, a retro project has required some deep digging indeed... Just because I grew up gaming in the 90's doesn't mean I learned anything about computer hardware from that era Thank you for taking any time to help me on my Windows 98 quest.

At the moment Windows Update works, but Microsoft Update is disturbed.

Same issue here. Error 0x80248015. Hopefully just a temporary glitch. I think that error refers to a connectivity problem.

Exactly as described here, the forum has a user-agent issue with the Pale Moon browser. No replies possible under certain circumstances. The issue can be bypassed fairly easily by an advanced user (and the forum will work 100%) but it really is a forum bug.

Well, one should probably use a more modern computer for those things anyway, for security purposes if nothing else (possible exception: logging into forums about old software, such as this one). What these proxies do is allow one to browse things, read news sites and perhaps search for things on Google. I don't think that's too gimmicky. c

@hotnuma It would make pages slower to load probably, but once loaded, the pages should be lighter and more responsive. @Destro Retrozilla is sort of meant to fulfill the role of a modern-ish browser for 9x. However, it seems that, save for minor updates to security ciphers and rendering, it's only about as good as Firefox 2.x or 3.x at best. At least for now. It's probably a longshot, but it might be worth trying to get Pale Moon to compile and run on 9x. This is most likely impossible, even with KernelEx, but some features and improvements could be backported to Retrozilla? c

New Build! 32bit https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.7.0a2.win32-git-20171203-f054802d7-xpmod.7z 64bit https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.7.0a2.win64-git-20171203-f054802d7-xpmod.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - Media - subtitles (implement cuechange event) (efc1cb213) - CSS - box-decoration-break:clone on block overflow container makes it draw a border (b0c367e8d) - HTML - input type="number" matches :-moz-read-only when it is not read only (866e7853e) - Fix typo (RefPtr -> nsRefPtr) (19e254050) - HTML - editor (improvements) (cdbbd876b) - Use NS_NewBlockFormattingContext() in ConstructFieldSetFrame(). (4b2512ed9) - Create block formatting context for DetailsFrame if needed. (861f3122d) - Add reftests. (857edb7d4) - Update HSTS preload list (65c519224) - The profile - resetting (improvements) (948462ac2) - Reuse ConstructScrollableBlock to build scrollable DetailsFrame. (501418edd) - Merge pull request #1495 from janekptacijarabaci/media_subtitles_events_cuechange_1 (e6419d9b5) - Merge pull request #1501 from janekptacijarabaci/html_editor_improvements_1 (41855a980) - Merge pull request #1502 from janekptacijarabaci/css_box-decoration-break_1 (65ce08409) - Merge pull request #1503 from janekptacijarabaci/html_input_read-only_1 (188f73ab6) - Merge pull request #1504 from trav90/HSTS-preload-update (a0a5441d2) - Merge pull request #1505 from janekptacijarabaci/profile_refresh_migrate_2 (2f3ed6aee) - Revert "HTML - editor (improvements)" (694cd800f) - Merge pull request #1507 from janekptacijarabaci/revert-1501-html_editor_improvements_1 (aa0f7a802) - Merge pull request #1506 from MoonchildProductions/Bug1299753 (828a7e92c) - HTML - editor (improvements) - follow up (f67fcdbaf) - Merge pull request #1508 from janekptacijarabaci/html_editor_improvements_1_followUp (814956a34) - HTML - details/summary - localize the description of default summary (2b0f743fa) - HTML - details/summary - lists (the "Second item" will be displayed as "3. Second item") (2d611d55e) - HTML - details/summary - lists (the "Second item" will be displayed as "3. Second item") - remove SummaryFrame (733878906) - HTML - details/summary - lists (the "Second item" will be displayed as "3. Second item") - potential crashtests (bf325c174) - Stop including AppVersion in the installer display strings. (b81e5b8ad) - Rewrite assert in cubeb_alsa.c: alsa_refill_stream to pass back a cubeb error instead. (7b2bbfd88) - Merge pull request #1516 from MoonchildProductions/cubeb-alsa-assert-fix1 (d49429482) - Merge pull request #1509 from janekptacijarabaci/html_details-summary_improvements_1 (ec9a2f596) - Merge pull request #1510 from janekptacijarabaci/html_details-summary_improvements_2 (e4c0d61b7) - HTML - details/summary - reftest.list (follow up) (10e5565e0) - Allow users to disable the 4th and/or 5th mouse button on Windows. (d775a1719) - Merge pull request #1518 from janekptacijarabaci/html_details-summary_improvements_3 (01ff4389d) - Mac: Re-initialize the Native Application Menu on run. (f054802d7)

To build MistyPE, 3 syntax error should be fixed. I contacted Misty about this 3 week ago, hope it will be fixed soon. [MistyPE\Core\verify.script] - [SOURCE.CHECK] Section IniWriteTextLine,"%Cache%\temp\boot.wim.info.ini",Main,Architecture,%ARCH% -> IniWriteTextLine,"%Cache%\temp\boot.wim.info.ini",Main,Architecture=%ARCH% [MistyPE\Core\Core.script] - [TWEAKS] section ECHO,"Remove 'Pin to Start' and 'Pin to Taskbar' from the context menu options"System, -> ECHO,"Remove 'Pin to Start' and 'Pin to Taskbar' from the context menu options" [MistyPE\Boot.Media\create.ISO.script] - [RAM] Section Else,ShellExecute,Open,"%TOOLS%\oscdimg.exe","-l#$qWinPE#$q -n -m -b#$q%OutputDir%\boot\etfsboot.com#$q #$q%OutputDir%#$q #$q%ISODir%\WinPE.iso#$q" -> ShellExecute,Open,"%TOOLS%\oscdimg.exe","-l#$qWinPE#$q -n -m -b#$q%OutputDir%\boot\etfsboot.com#$q #$q%OutputDir%#$q #$q%ISODir%\WinPE.iso#$q"