I went ahead and reinstalled Win98se, the latest Intel Chipset Utility and then the Intel Ultra ATA instead of the Application Accelerator and everything seems ok, sort of.......
While the problem I described in my initial post seems resolved by the above action, something new has popped up. The only card installed in the rig thus far had been the video card (Visiontek Ti-200), so after I did the reinstall of 98se and Intel drivers, I installed the nic (Linksys 10/100).
What I've noticed is the system seems a little sluggish since, and especially during boot up. The boot time has almost doubled since installing the nic. For example, before the nic, if I did start--shutdown---restart, it only took about 30-35 seconds to be back to the desktop and ready to go. Now it's 60-70 seconds, very noticeable. It seems to really crawl at boot when it's at the device listing screen, where it seems to take 20 or more seconds there alone.
I installed the nic in pci slot #3 and there are no other cards installed (other than AGP).
I did notice the nic has irq #9, as does one of the usb listings, but it seems difficult to avoid sharing with one of the usb's as the have or share 4 of the irq's.
Any suggestions on this?
While the problem I described in my initial post seems resolved by the above action, something new has popped up. The only card installed in the rig thus far had been the video card (Visiontek Ti-200), so after I did the reinstall of 98se and Intel drivers, I installed the nic (Linksys 10/100).
What I've noticed is the system seems a little sluggish since, and especially during boot up. The boot time has almost doubled since installing the nic. For example, before the nic, if I did start--shutdown---restart, it only took about 30-35 seconds to be back to the desktop and ready to go. Now it's 60-70 seconds, very noticeable. It seems to really crawl at boot when it's at the device listing screen, where it seems to take 20 or more seconds there alone.
I installed the nic in pci slot #3 and there are no other cards installed (other than AGP).
I did notice the nic has irq #9, as does one of the usb listings, but it seems difficult to avoid sharing with one of the usb's as the have or share 4 of the irq's.
Any suggestions on this?