only has 128meg ram so cant load XP. new NIC is not seen ATT said there modem Speed Stream 5960 needs "enter300" software to work with old ver 98 Cant find that software. Please help Thanks for your Help Sacman

Are you sure the new Nic is Compatible with win98? If it is "NEW", Idoubt it's intended for that old an OS. Read the documentation that came with the NIC and Post the MFG name& Model #. It could be just a Driver problem. I believe ATT requires Win98Second Edition. You may need to upgrade to Win98 SE. What model eMachine do you have? There is nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.

You seem to be posting about 2 different problems. You say you have a NIC which isn't being detected by Win98 ("old ver", implies it is original Win98 and not Win98SE). And then you write about needing special software for an ATT SpeedStream 5960 DSL modem. Are you sure the model number is 5960, and not 5360 or 5260? Either way, the software you probably need is for PPPoE (Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet) in order to connect to the service. You can find this software for free at: http://www.raspppoe.com/ But, if you don't have a NIC working to connect to the SpeedStream modem, then the software won't do you any good. If the NIC your trying to set up is too new and doesn't have a Win98 driver written for it, then get another NIC. There's places still selling Realtek 8139s for less then $5 (you'll pay more for the shipping!). They'll work with Win95 even.

Do you mean 98 isn't even seeing that you've added the card or do you mean it doesn't have drivers? Check in device manager to see if some 'unknown device' is showing there. If you want to install XP and it's only ram that's preventing it, why not just get some compatible SDRAM on ebay? It's dirt cheap.

Windows XP works on 128MB of RAM. Medion MIM 2080 Toshiba T2130CT Macintosh Performa 450 All working wonderfully.

I just came across this: http://cgi.ebay.com/2x-256-MB-PC133... It'll probably work in your system.

if you already have Xp, I would give it a try, but I don't think I would buy a copy for that machine. My neighbor has a emachine, with a celron 566 & 128mb of ram. She brought a printer, that had no 98 driver. I loaded XP for her, kept everything out of the startup, except a light weight firewall & antivirus. Disable some services and system restore, turn off eye candy, etc.. runs OK. larry