I inherited a Dell Optiplex G110 that had NT installed as the operating system.  I reformatted the drive and have done a clean installation of W98SE.  I've downloaded the appropriate drivers from Dell and installed them in the proper sequence.  When I get to installing the 3COM NIC drivers I'm asked to insert the W98SE disk after I have selected the drivers.  I then get an error message saying that the system could not find some installation files.  If I skip the files and proceed with the installation it all seems to work because the device manager shows the  adapter card and says its working fine.  Now we get to the problem.  When I reboot or start the computer I get the following "stalls" ;  vnetsup.vxd, vredir.vxd, dfs.vxd and unable to load  msnp32.dll.  I suspect these are all network associated files that didn't get loaded because they couldn't be found on the W98SE disk and some config or .inf file has been changed during installation to look for these.  How can I get rid of the query for these files on startup, or do I need them?

Bob Warasila

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