TimeTraveller, when you did “fdisk” did you delete non dos partitions?

Only ask because I had problems bringing a Dell back to life without using it’s restore disk. I also used a retail 98 disk (first edition).

My problems were with the drivers for the motherboard (Intel) but the mobo drivers were (how do I say this without getting a law suit filed against me) … it would seem that some firmware on the mobo was written specifically for Dell, so an update for a retail mobo didn’t install the “correct” driver version. In my case it was soundcard issues (onboard).

Is it an Intel board inside your machine?