Thread: Windows 98 Hardware.txt File

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These articles have a copy of the information in the Hardware.txt file containing with Windows 98. This file is placed in the Windows folder once Windows 98 is installed.

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CONTENTS
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SCANNERS

VIDEO CAPTURE DEVICES

MODEMS

TAPE DRIVE DETECTION

ZIP TOOLS AND THE IOMEGA PARALLEL ZIP DISK

ISDN DRIVERS

IBM MWAVE


USB DEVICES

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Digital HiNote Ultra 2000
Windows does not include a choice to switch to Standby using the Start/Shutdown menu, to issue with power management on this PC.

Problems with Power Control Panel Settings

A few computers do not allow Windows full control power management. If you get that changing the Standby, Monitor, or Hard Drive timeout values in the Power Control have no effect, your computer's own power management settings are overriding Windows' settings. Open your computer's power management Setup program and stop any Standby, Suspend, Monitor, or Hard Drive timeout values. You should be capable to control these settings from the Windows Power Management control panel, once you perform this.

Compaq Presario 4834 and Non-Compaq Monitors

If your Presario 4834 is not connected to a Compaq monitor with USB ports, be convinced that your BIOS is also configured to not use the Compaq monitor with USB ports. If you have the BIOS set to use the Compaq monitor, but do not contain a Compaq monitor connected, then your PC will turn off when you select the Standby command. Contact Compaq for updated BIOS that fixes this issue.

PCI systems

If the video device is configured by the BIOS to use an IRQ and you use the secondary PCI IDE controller in your PC, your video will work only in VGA mode. To load the accelerated Windows 98 driver for your video, stop the secondary PCI IDE controller in the BIOS and the Device Manager (double-click System in Control Panel). An alternative (if supported by the BIOS) is to stop the IRQ of the video device.

IBM ThinkPad Models 750 (all 750 series except 750ce)

New BIOS that resolve some issues with power management is available from the IBM bulletin board. Download the latest System Program Service Diskette for the ThinkPad 750 from the bulletin board service (BBS). Observe your hardware documentation for information about access the IBM bulletin board.

Microsoft and IBM are in the development of resolving the following known issues:

1. Mwave is lost if you have more than 8 MB of memory.

- IBM is working on updated drivers. Revision 1.1 does not solve this problem.

If you install Windows 98 in a many folder, Mwave will not work except you reinstall the Mwave drivers using IBM Mwave Setup program disks. This is by design. The Windows 3.1 drivers are required to run the Mwave chip.

2. If you install Windows 98 in the same folder that have your existing version of Windows, Mwave will persist to function.

3. Device Manager specifies issues with the infrared port.

- IBM is updating the Infrared virtual device driver (VxD) so that it works properly.
4. Docking is not supported.
5. There are power management problems with the Suspend and Resume commands.
6. Using Mwave versions earlier than 1.2 can cause issues.

- Bugs in previous versions of Mwave can cause serious issue when Mwave is run on Windows 98.

IBM ThinkPad Dock II

If you use IBM ThinkPad Dock II, stop the BIOS for the Adaptec 1530P SCSI controller in the docking station before you run your PC when it is docked. If you do not, your PC will freeze continually. This controller works fine in protected mode even without the BIOS enabled, so you must not drop access to any SCSI devices.

>>>To disable the BIOS:
1. Restart your PC while it is docked.
2. Press CTRL+A to start the Adaptec SCSISelect utility.
3. Select Configure/View Host Adapter Settings.
4. Select Advanced Configuration Options.
5. Change the setting for Host Adapter BIOS to Disabled.
6. Press ESC until you are prompted to exit the utility. once you exit, the PC will reboot.

Micron M5-PI Series (P-60, P-66)
Before you install Windows 98, make confident that BIOS read/write jumper (W22) is set to the read-only position. If you attempt to install Windows 98 with this jumper in the read\write position, it may cause BIOS corruption.
Micron P90/100
Before you install Windows 98, make confident your BIOS version is N15 or later.

NEC Versa M and AT&T Globalyst
>>>To enable the PCMCIA Power setting:
1. Restart your computer.
2. When the cursor changes to a rectangle, press F1.
3. When the BIOS configuration program is ready, choose Power, and then change the PCMCIA Power setting to Enabled.
4. Save these settings.
Winbook XP

A issue on the Winbook XP can cause the keyboard to function wrongly. The workaround is to stop Windows 98 power status polling.

>>>To disable Windows 98 power status polling:
1. Click Start, point to Settings>>click Control Panel>> double-click System.
2. Click Device Manager.
3. Click the plus (+) sign next to the System Class you want to change.
4. Click Advanced Power Management Support>> click Settings.
5. Make sure that the Disable Power Status Polling check box is selected.
6. Click OK to save your changes.

HP OmniBook 600C
The Omnibook PCMCIA controller is supported by particular drivers in the Drivers folder on the CD version of Windows 98, or by different online services. In the Drivers folder on the CD, pass on to the Readme file for installation commands.

The OmniBook also wants a special mouse driver for Windows 98. Windows 98 Setup conserves and uses this driver when you upgrade from an previous version of Windows. If you installed Windows 98 in a new folder on an OmniBook, copy the HP Obmouse.drv file into the Windows 98\System folder, and then change the following lines in your System.ini file:

[boot]
mouse.drv=obmouse.drv

[386Enh]
mouse=*vmd

Identify issues with PCMCIA in older BIOS versions on this machine. If your computer Card (PCMIA) is not properly known, update your BIOS to a version later than 1.3.

Acer AcerNotes

You may hear a low tone when you insert your computer Card once you activate the 32-bit PC Card drivers. If this occurs, remove the EMMExclude line from the System.ini file and the reject range data from the EMM386 line in the Config.sys file. If you still get a low tone, complete the following procedure:
>>>To eliminate the tone:
1. Click Start, point to Settings>>click Control Panel>> double-click PC Card.
2. Click Global Settings, and then make confident that the Automatic Selection check box is empty.
3. Set the valid range to start at 000D0000 and end at 000DFFFF.

DEC Venturis and Media Vision Audio Cards

There are known issues with sure mixture of the DEC Venturis and Media Vision audio cards.

>>>If you experience problems:
1. Click Start, point to Settings>>click Control Panel>> double-click System.
2. Click Device Manager.
3. Under Sound, Video and Game Controllers, click Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16/Studio with SCSI.
4. Click Settings.
5. Make confident the Enable Warm Boot check box is empty.
Zenith NoteFLEX 486DX and PC Cards
If your computer cards are not being discovered or are not working properly with the Windows 98 PCMCIA drivers, reserve IRQ 10 and the memory range C000-CBFF.
>>>To reserve resources:
1. Click Start, point to Settings>>click Control Panel>> double-click System.
2. Click Device Manager.
3. Click Computer>> click Properties.
4. Click Reserve Resources.
5. Click Interrupt Request (IRQ>> click Add.
6. Type 10, >> click OK.
7. Click Memory>> click Add.
8. Reserve the memory range C000-CBFF>> click OK.
9. Click OK again>> restart your computer.

Zenith NoteFLEX 486DX and Flexshow Docking Station

If you are using the NoteFLEX with the Flexshow docking station, reserve IRQ 10 so that the built- in CD-ROM drive will work. To perform this, follow the method in the earlier section, "Zenith NoteFLEX 486 DX and PC Cards" and reserve only IRQ 10.

In your Config.sys file, make confident the line loading Mztinit.sys appears before the line loading PCenable.exe or your computer will stop responding during startup.

To ignore various Bad Command or File Name errors during startup and to make sure the PC is configured properly, copy Rplstr.com from your \Dos directory to your \Windows directory.

Zenith NoteFLEX 486DX and PCMCIA Hard Drives
If you are using a PCMCIA hard drive, you should enable 32-bit PCMCIA support to gain access to the drive.

>>>To enable 32-bit PCMCIA support:
1. Click Start, point to Settings,>>click Control Panel>> double-click PC Card (PCMCIA).
2. Follow the instructions on your screen

Megahertz Em1144T and 16-Bit Modem

There is a identified issue whereby this card enabler avoids the default values set for certain parameters.If you experience issue setting up the modem side of the EM1144T card in a real-mode PCMCIA environment, set the COMIRQ and COMBASE parameters clearly in the Megahertz section of your Protocol.ini file.

Digital Venturis (any model)

If PNPISA and/or PCI cards are not automatically known, or if Windows 98 produces blue screen errors when reinstall your COM ports, contact Digital for new BIOS.

Printing from Device Manager

In Device Manager, if you select to print an All devices and system summary, the device finding code may reason issues for MS-DOS-based programs. Your PC manifests the issue by reporting that it is out of memory when you try to run an MS-DOS-based program. When this problem occurs, reboot Windows 98 to correct the issue.

Mozart Sound Card/Canon Innova 550 CD Driver Problem

You may experience issues when you run Windows 98. To get a new driver that works with Windows 98.

TrueFFS Flash File System for PC Cards (PCMCIA)

The MS-DOS or Windows 3.1 version of the TrueFFS driver does not work with the Windows 98 PCMCIA driver. To work with FTL-formatted Linear Flash PCMCIA cards when the Windows 98 PCMCIA driver is enabled, install a new Windows 98 device driver provided by M-Systems.

>>>To install the device driver:
1. Click Start, point to Settings>>click Control Panel>> double-click Add New Hardware.
2. Click Next>>click Next again>> click No, I want to select the hardware from a list>> then click Next.
3. Click Hard Disk Controllers>>click Next.
4. From the Manufacturers list>> click M-Systems.
5. In the Models list>>click your flash card>> click Next.
6. Follow the instructions on your screen.

Micronics Motherboards with a Flash BIOS

Before you install Windows 98, make confident that the BIOS read/write jumper is set to the read-only position. If you try to install Windows 98 with this jumper in the read\write position, it may cause BIOS corruption. Toshiba Computers: T610 T400 series, T2100 series, T2400 series, T4700 series, T4800 series, and the

T4900CT and T3600

Toshiba strongly suggest that you upgrade your PC BIOS to version 5.0. The upgraded BIOS give extra functionality intended for the Windows 98 operating system, If you use any of these Toshiba PC.

Toshiba T2150 models

If your system stops responding in Suspend or reboot operations, comment out the line that loads the Toscdrom.sys driver from your Config.sys file. E.g.

rem device=c:\cddrv\toscdrom.sys

Sanyo 3-D ATAPI (IDE) CD-ROM Drive

The Sanyo 3-D ATAPI (IDE) CD-ROM drive uses a proprietary method to support the three-disk changer. Although all three drives show when your PC is running in protected mode, only one of them is available.

>>>To disable the Windows 98 protected-mode disk driver:
1. Click Start, point to Settings>>click Control Panel>> double-click System.
2. Click Device Manager.
3. Choose the View devices by connection option.
4. Locate the Sanyo drive.
5. After you find the Sanyo drive, place the parent controller.
6. Click the controller, and then click Properties.
7. Under Device usage>> click to clear the check box next to the current

configuration

This method enables access to all three drives from Windows 98 protected mode; but, your hard disk drive, CD-ROM, and any other devices under the controller will be accessed only through real-mode drivers.

The BusLogic BT-946C PCI SCSI adapter may not be friendly with Windows 98. If you encounter difficulties with your SCSI peripherals, contact Micron to determine whether you need an updated adapter.

SCANNERS

Hewlett Packard SCSI SCL Flatbed Scanners

This contains IIc, IIcx, 3c, 4c, 4p, 5p, and 6100c. The push button on the 5p is fully supported. Of the HP Twain data sources, neither PictureScan nor DeskScan is included in Windows 98. These are provided on the CD that came with your scanner. A simple Twain data source is included for these scanners in Windows 98. If PictureScan or DeskScan is installed on your system before you upgrade to Windows 98, it will still be presented and the simple data source will be hidden.

Drivers for the SCSI cards shipped with HP scanners are not included in this release. You must install the SCSI drivers on your system before you install the scanner drivers.