MyHP PSC 1410 hardware is fine but my hard drive was failing. After I replaced it, the HP all-in-1 software is missing. When I try to reload the software using AIOCDB_NonNet_FullWin_WW_140_408-4, that software tries to Uninstall whatever is there but never tries to install anything. I also ran HP easy start. That apparently installed a printer driver as I can now print but that software never completes and shows the "busy circle" forever. I ran the HP diagnostic and it downloads the AIOCDB_NonNet_FullWin_WW_140-408-4 again and when I try to run it that once again tried to uninstall whatever is there.
The scanner part of the unit looks like it has no software at all.
Any suggestions how to proceed?
Thank you.
Thank you for the detailed solution. I haven't tried it yet but I had tried some other things on my own before I got your post. From Start/programs I ran HP uninstall, which uninstalled a bunch of stuff. When I then ran the AIOCDB_NonNet_FullWin_WW_140_408-4, now it DID install a bunch of stuff including the printer driver. When I got to the last step, it did not install the HP Solution Center. When I try to run it, it flashes up the HP Solutions center logo but then in a fraction of a second puts up another icon and it doesn't run. If I run HP Print and Scan Doctor 5.52 and "fix printing" it passes all the checks and can print. If I select "fix scanning", the scanner runs, but I get an error dialog box with a red "Front panel Test: "This tool has detected a problem with the printer front panel scan settings. Start HP Solutions Center, then choose setting, scan settings, scan to... setup and add the available scan shortcuts to the printer front panel list to resolve the problem" But the HP solutions center doesn't run so I can't do this. The printer now prints if I print something and can scan via Microsoft. I will try your full procedure at some point but I'm using the unit at the moment. I appreciate your full procedure and will try it soon and get back to you on my results. Thanks again for your detailed procedure to resolve my problem.
Before I uninstalled I searched for "HP Printers - HP Solution Center doesn't open" on the web. I got the following answer:
"HP Solution Center is a printer management program for HP printers manufactured before 2010. HP Solution Center does not work when Flash software is not active on your system. Because Flash is no longer supported by the industry, HP Solution Center is also no longer supported." and the article gives workarounds.
Have an Acer Aspire 1410 11.6" and have been using it since about 2009. All of a sudden the wireless just seems to have stopped working. I look at the front of the computer, just in front of the left wrist wrest, and I see 4 indicator lights. The right-most indicator shows the classic wireless icon, and it doesn't light up. The left-most shows power and lights up when the system is one, and the next to left-most shows when the plug from the wall is in. Not sure about the other indicator.
I'm wondering if the wireless card is fried, but when I go to Start > Computer > Properties > Device Manager > Network adapters > Intel (R) WiFi Link 1000 BGN (the other adapter is the wired ethernet controller), and then right-click, it allows me to disable. When I disable and then enable, it doesn't seem to give any issues. When I tried updating the driver, it tells me the latest driver is in place (of course how it would know that is beyond me), and when I ask it to troubleshoot, it actually tells me that "Wireless capability is turned off".
Another related question is, when I go to the
support.acer.com site to get the latest driver, I choose Netbook/Ultrabook > Aspire > Aspire 1410 (11.6") and confirm the model, and I get to a page that is specific to this model. On that page I choose my operating system (Windows 7 Home Premium x64), select the Drivers link, and go down to the Wireless LAN drivers, and the Link 1000 option shows a version of 12.5.0.59, but when I go to the driver properties for my wireless network adapater on the system itself, the driver version is reported as 13.0.0.107. I'm not sure why my system's driver would be later than the one show on the web site, but more importantly, where would I go to get the latest driver for a reinstall?
Ok, forget it, I found the problem. There is a switch underneath the front left of the laptop that is not labeled. It's one of those that slides to the side (rightways) when you press it and then slides back when you let it go, so I had originally thought it just used to open something up (kind of like the battery release switch, so I didn't actually press it all the way to the right. After posting this, I did one more search and read about someone saying about a switch in that position under the laptop, so I went ahead and tried it out, and now my wireless light is fine, and I can connect again. Wow! Why it's not labeled I don't know, but now I know what to do when this happens again.
The catalyst for revisiting Windows 98 came after experiencing Windows XP re-activation issues following hardware changes. Mostly to keep an old Windows install around to play favourite games, plus it's still a fun system to utilize. Finally completed Road Rash - lol. For retro use, Windows 98 is pretty good, although most users may now have trouble finding a printer to work on this system, if that is desired. I have three printers at home, only one has Windows 98 drivers, all work with Windows XP. Printer manufacturers appear to have made these old printer cartridges hard to find and/or very expensive to encourage the never ending upgrade cycle. Finding an old Windows 98 friendly scanner shouldn't be an issue.
I recently set up two Windows 98 systems. Nostalgic, the same user experience i remember. The installer actually takes quite a while compared to a lean Linux OS, but otherwise works well. Reasonably simple and lean OS, easy to set up and manage. NO ACTIVATION REQUIRED! Occasionally a little flaky but nothing that can't be fixed with some tweaking or a reboot. Once setup, no more updates required.
As i still use Windows 98 era hardware on a daily basis (800 MHz systems, BIOS dates 1999-2001, RAM 384-512 MB), my interest was setting up and running this retro OS on bare metal. To wonderful surprise, finding hardware drivers was quite simple with a little searching. I ended up hoarding quite a few graphic, audio and network drivers, including Windows 98 'driver packs'. Anyone needing drivers, it may be best to search the manufacturer's sites first, as many are still archived and available, otherwise these resources should help:
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I spent way too much time downloading Windows 98 updates, 108 in total, including 2To4DigitDateConversionTool.exe, many 'Q' updates, several 'KB' updates, unicows and a DirectX9 patch. Unfortunately, most were obtained from non-Microsoft sources, as updates are no longer available from Microsoft servers and a roll-up pack was never released. I did not want to use one of the unofficial update packs and purposely avoided updates related to undesired (for me) software, including Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Dial Up Networking, Macromedia Flash Player, MDAC, Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Virtual Machine. From recent testing, both Internet Explorer 5 and 6 are essentially non-functional with modern browsing and Windows Media Player 9 no longer provides online multimedia browsing. I just wanted to keep my install relatively default and 'official'.
Feel free to contact me if you can't find a desired update. In hindsight, unsure this effort was worthwhile as Windows 98 is now essentially a retro hobby OS. If a system is experiencing a specific issue, such as shutdown hang, applying a few specific updates may be warranted.
Edit 1: Thread started in 2017 but going strong for now. Note this thread pertains to running vanilla Windows 98 SE. Please do not post misleading information that may not work in a vanilla Windows 98 SE installation, such as kernel mods, DLL swaps from other OS, custom re-compiles, higher software versions that may not run in vanilla Windows 98, etc. Thank-you and enjoy.
Edit 2 & 3: Updated title.
As indicated above, i don't have updates for undesired software, such as Internet Explorer upgrade, so this isn't a comprehensive collection, just what i think is important to run old Windows 98 in the modern era. They were all tested, in that they installed, 'Q' and 'KB' numbers matched and they *appeared* official. Certainly a far cry from signed packages, md5sum checks, etc. I did not modify any updates, aside from the file names. This is what i've got:
Pasted Windows 98 Install and Setup Notes, if it helps anyone:
- Win98 can be installed without using the full drive, use gparted to create fat partition
for Win98, ensure all other partitions are not fat, use NTFS or Linux.
- If want Win98 to create bootable MBR, from Win98 CD run fdisk to review partitions (4),
re-create the FAT partition for Win98 and mark active. Note using gparted to create
partition and mark active doesn't work, end up with non-bootable Win98 install.
Also use Win98 CD to 'format c:'.
- From Win98 CD run 'setup' to install Win98, should install FAT formated c: drive.
- Perform custom install and deselect undesirable Windows software options,
many no longer applicable or desirable.
- Regarding Windows Updates, don't bother upgrading Internet Explorer or Windows Media
Player versions, now essentially broken, rely on 3rd party apps (Firefox, VLC).
- Several sites online discussing setting up Windows 98 with larger hard drives and more
RAM, if install fails try re-install with
Nice to see another diehard Windows 98 user around here. It sounds as though you'd rounded up quite a cache of updates from Microsoft which is good because most of them are non-existent now unless you visit
archive.org and muck around there a bit. With printers, I've discovered that HP printers in particular aren't extremely picky at drivers and sometimes you can get newer ones to work with older model drivers. Of course you won't have your high end function drivers, but if you're just looking to print, it will get the job done. In fact when I contacted HP what seems to be quite a few years ago now about my Photosmart working on Windows 2000, he even went out of his way to find a solution for me even though on the box is says a minimum of Windows XP. He said just to use 1 of 2 DeskJet drivers which I cannot remember offhand what they are now unless I go through my emails but with that and being able to use the IP address to remote into the printer and use the scan utility within it, it was fully functional as far as I was concerned. So I'm sure something like this would be possible for Windows 98 as well.
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