Windows 98 install ARGHHHHHH

retiredalso

How about installing Windows 98 and the software into a virtual machine, say with VirtualBox?

I did try VirtualBox but on trying to install Windows 98 it grinds to a halt with the following error message

Standard Mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender.

EC=0000 CS=0807 IP=0BE5 AX=4591 BX=15D6 CX=4501 DX=0A67
SI=15D6 DI=000D BP=14A2 DS=085F ES=0B47 SS=085F SP=1480

S0litaire

retiredalso wrote: »

I did try VirtualBox but on trying to install Windows 98 it grinds to a halt with the following error message

Standard Mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender.

EC=0000 CS=0807 IP=0BE5 AX=4591 BX=15D6 CX=4501 DX=0A67
SI=15D6 DI=000D BP=14A2 DS=085F ES=0B47 SS=085F SP=1480

I posted in your other post on how to fix this error

in short check the VirtualBox settings for your 98 virtual machine and drop ram to 32MB and uncheck "Enable VT-x/AMD-V" and "Enable PAE/NX"

with those unchecked the install will run fine! ^_^

VoucherMan

Downgrading to Windows 98?

I'll swap you. My PC at work is a '98 machine.

A.Penny.Saved

It's because you have too much memory and windows uses up large amounts of your address space on the cache because it tries to reserve the amount of cache based on the amount of memory. It's a fault with Win 98 because they never envisaged anyone using such large amounts of memory.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912

Getting a good memory manager to handle large amounts of memory might help as well.

I had a similar problem many years ago when I upgraded to 1GB of memory.