James:
I'm amazed that you even got Win98SE to install with only 8 mb of RAM.
Microsoft's minimum requirements are 24 mb, and I doubt a that system
would be usable with much less than 48 or 64 mb.
Regards,
Carroll Grigsby


"James W. Christian" wrote:
>
> hi all, i have a IBM APTIVA 2168 m40 computer, 1gb hard drive,8mb
> memory,had win95 on it, i fdisk,partition,and formatted it, installed
> win98se on it,can not  connect to internet,no sound,speaker on task bar
> is not there when i go to multimedia the check mark is in the box were
> it says to (show volume control on task bar) but it is grayed out and
> it is not working,tried to find driver for sound and modem on ibm site
> but no luck,hope some one can help me,thanks very much james w. christian
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