"Error Messages"... Someone more versed will probably tell you exactly what the problem is, but... I had a similar "take a hike" message during a recent install of W2000Pro. I wrote it down exactly, then went to the MS Knowledge base/discussion page for W2000Pro, entered the phrase into the query box, and bing-bang-boom, here comes three pages of print that told me how to go to two or three dozen system locations, delete about that many instances of another driver program I had, and whadaya think, it fixed the problem. Also, my ISP guys say they benchmarked W98se in several configurations and they believe W98 can't *actually* recognize/use anything over 128meg RAM, even though it does report on the "performance" tab whatever you actually have in Motherboard RAM slots. They say W98 tries to juggle RAM when it's over 128, and the benchmarck goes down to 40% of original at 512meg RAM... but how they described it was way over my bald head. That's why I spent all last weekend changing wife's 'puter OS to W2000Pro, but I have so much stuff on mine I'd eat dirt before I'd reformat and reload. Anyway, you might try the MS Knowledge Base page......