From time to time I still get a Windows 98 system come in to my shop. Dial up internet, buggy and usually missing .vxd files. The first computer I had was a Windows 95 computer... then I finally upgraded to Win98 and loved it! Gosh we have came so far since those days! Now I really am beginning to dispise the older 9X operating systems (95,98, ME).
I have had this particular Win 98 system in my shop for about 4 working business days (which is a lot for my shop). The customer wanted a 2nd hard drive installed, a dvd burner, and a used AGP video card capable of playing Diablo 2.
I installed the 2nd hard drive as slave... formatted and everything is fine on that. Then I installed the DVD burner and ImgBurn software to allow him to burn data. That went well. Everything went smooth until the video card.... The original video card was a 4mb card and uncapable of playing the game. I uninstalled the originial video driver before putting the other video card in.
Well I have went through a total of 4 video cards before I finally found one that this system would accept the driver for. The first 3 cards gave me various errors ranging from wrong drivers, to black screens upon reboot, blue screens of death... etc. I know the drivers are correct, because it took me and my tech hours to find the correct Windows 98 drivers for these video cards. Finally I found one that worked correctly and thankfully am done with this system.
I am now considering "Unsupporting Windows 9x" at my shop. What do you think?
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