I had to go back to Factory defaults today because my computer would only boot in safe mode. Now after I get everything reinstalled I can't use my PNY SmartMedia card reader for my Olympus camera. I installed the drivers for it but when I put the reader into the USB port on the front of the computer the drive doesn't show up in Explorer, nothing happens. I also have an external Zip drive that is connected and has always been connected. I checked the devices in the System control panel and under "other" there is an error about the driver, but I thought that the USB area was where this device would show up. I tried to redo the drivers but no luck. All was working fine before I did the reinstall. I rebooted the computer with the reader in the USB port and went through the whole found new hardware wizard but when it came to load the driver I couln't find the one I needed, even with the readers disk in the cd drive. The software that came with the reader has two drivers that you can install, one is a CF driver and the other is an SM driver, I did them both but still no luck. Not sure what else to do. I even tried the USB ports on the back of the computer and no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Fred Campbell Marshall, MI

This web page may be of some use - Win98 and USB do not always go together as you might expect! http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;297402