I am working on a computer and had to reload his op system witch is 98se.. the place he bought the computer from has built it with xp devices, modem,10/100 lan, usb, I have the disk but when I download the device drivers the systems is not reconizing them so now nothing works on this computer. I don't know what to do. I told him he needs to upgrade to xp and his memory. does anyone know where i can find the driver for a lucent agere v.90 56k high speed modem? angeljam

there should be a win9x folder on that motherboard driver disk. open the disk in my computer to see. look on google for the agere driver.

Thank You, sorry i should have put this in my question.. the disk that company gave him are all burned copies he has 98se op and the burn disk for everything else is this autoset up program so the burn disk is suppose to have mainboard xp support for athlon amd 1.0ghz and the drivers for xp.As soon as i put the burned disk in it starts to run and it won't download everything thats suppose to be on it . so i was going to try to reformat his hard driver and start over but i can't get the floppy disk to start. I think I just have a big mess on my hands I just don't know what to do. but thank you for the post i will look for that angeljam

You should have gotten the Win98 compatible drivers BEFORE you formatted the drive. Or better yet, you should have left XP intact & simply installed 98 on a 2nd partition creating a dual boot system. Regardless, you haven't listed enough info about the system to be able to get very much help. I don't know what an "athlon xp 1000+1 ghz" is because there is no such thing. I do know you will need drivers for the motherboard chipset, video, sound, network & since you apparently have a 56k modem, you'll need the drivers for that too. Since Lucent/Agere was bought out by LSI, it will be a little more difficult to find the drivers without knowing the exact make/model of the modem. Agere was the manufacturer of the modem chipset only...the actual modem card was built by someone else. That "someone" *should* have the drivers at their website. http://www.lsi.com/support/index.html http://www.modemsite.com/56k/driver... http://www.softlookup.com/driveauth...

I'm sorry I am new at writing on here and I am trying my hardest to explain the problem so please be patient with me. I am working on a computer for a friend. He bought this computer from some company that builds them. he got computer back in 2003 now he can't get ahold of that place where he bought the computer they gave him burn copies of his 98se op system and burn copies of his xp drivers I am going by what the writing on the disk says that is on this cd... when I got his computer this was the problem. Windows would not load his floppy drive and two cd rom drives would not work. He told me when he signed up for a new internet provider he deleted msn. well what he really did was delete almost everything when you turned the computer on it could not boot . so I took his hard drive and maybe it was my mistake but I installed it into a different computer and managed to put in windows 98se reboot disk and it worked so I reinstalled his hard drive back into his computer and finished the installation I did not reformat the hard drive. Now 98se is on the computer so i put in the other burned disk that says mainboard XP. when the disk starts it is an autosetup program. this is what his paper says, custom athlon xp pc win98 se oem os and then the spec break down is this,athlon xp 1000 + 1.ghz processor,sis740 via athlon xp motherboard. the list of drivers on the cd is IDC driver,VGA driver, sound driver,V.90 Fax/modem,10/100 lan,usb 2.0,SIS chip set, VIA,.. My problem is I can't get these drivers to load on his 98se . the autosetup will start to download and then the screen will go black and I have to shut computer off. So this company he bought this computer from installed XP devices but gave him 98se He only has 112ram. Again I am sorry if not explaining correctly When I try to dial up to the internet it says there is no modem installed.. it doesn't reconize the usb's or the 10/100lan so i can't get connected to internet so windows can search for drivers. Thank you for your time should I just tell him to upgrade to windows xp and buy more ram? angeljam

Didn't mean to seem impatient. Hey, you have "jam" in your name so you MUST be OK! ;-) Your explanation is a bit hard to decypher, but one possible problem is that either the CMOS battery is bad or somehow the CMOS (BIOS) was cleared. As I said above, there is no such thing as "xp 1000 + 1.ghz processor". It's either a plain Athlon 1GHz CPU or it's an Athlon XP that's running at the wrong speed. I suspect the BIOS was reset & the settings were never corrected...it may also explain why you can't boot off the floppy. Have you checked the BIOS settings? My guess about the CPU is that the FSB reset from 133MHz to 100MHz, that's why the CPU is running at 1.0GHz. It's possible that it's actually an XP1500+ that's supposed to run at 1.33GHz. Have a look at the BIOS. I'll write more later.

Just a thought! Win98SE can be a little temperamental with PCI devices. Try physically removing all the Devices that are causing problems until you get the OS installed and working, then add the PCI devices back into the system 1 at a time till you can sort out the individual driver issues. If this Comp is not going to be used on a network or Broadband internet connection the Network/Lan card can be eliminated. You can always reinstall if needed. Go to the Manufacturer's web site for Win98 Drivers. If I'm reading your post correctly, you seem to be trying to force Win 98 to accept WinXP drivers. I don't think this will work. Also, with the minimal installed Ram, I hope you are not intending to install Win XP. I believe XP requires 128mb min, although it will run (miserably) on less. For help identifying Devices and obtaining drivers download and install Everest Home Edition from the link below. Should be able to download to Floppy on another computer. http://www.softpedia.com/get/System... If I've read your post wrong, please feel free to disregard all the above. Are you sure you're not overlooking Win98 drivers on your disk? AFAIK, devices are not necessarily OS Specific, but drivers are. There is nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.