Installing Windows 98 on the OmniBook 4150 The Omnibook 4150 comes with a factory-installed version of Windows 98. You can recover the factory- installed build using the OmniBook 4150 recovery CD. If you do not want to use the factory-installed Windows build for the OmniBook 4150, the following procedure describes the steps required to install a retail version of Windows 98 and configure the appropriate device drivers. If you only want to install a specific driver, skip the Windows installation section, and follow the installation instructions for that driver. Requirements * OmniBook 4150. * Windows 98 retail CD-ROM (only needed for retail install). * OmniBook drivers for Windows 98 Location: \OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS directory of factory hard drive image, recovery CD, or on the OmniBook web site (www.hp.com/omnibook). Table of Contents * Prepare for software installation. * Install a retail version of Windows 98. * Install video support for retail Windows 98. * Install audio support for retail Windows 98. * Install PC Card support for retail Windows 98. * Install infrared support for retail Windows 98. * Disable automatic CD-ROM detection. * Install pointing device support for retail Windows 98. * Install Docking support for retail Windows 98. To prepare for software installation It is recommended you repartition your hard disk before installing retail Windows 98. Follow the instructions below to repartition your hard disk. 1. Connect the ac adapter to the OmniBook. 2. Insert the CD-ROM drive in the OmniBook. 3. Insert the bootable Recovery CD in the CD-ROM drive. 4. Reboot, press ESC twice and select the CD-ROM/DVD as the boot device. 5. Choose your country keyboard layout and press Enter. 6. Choose Create Hibernation Partition from the Startup menu. 7. Enter 'Y' to continue. 8. Enter 'Y' to accept the default Hibernation partition. 9. From the A:, type FDISK. 10. If desired enable large disk support. Press Enter to continue. 11. Create the Primary and Extended DOS partitions. You will need at least 300 MB for the Primary Partition. 12. Reboot, press ESC twice and select the CD-ROM/DVD as the boot device. 13. Choose your country keyboard layout and press Enter. 14. Choose Exit to MS-DOS from the Startup Menu. 15. From the A: prompt, type Format C: 16. When prompted Press Y then ENTER to proceed with Format. 17. From the A: prompt type SYS C: 18. Insert the Windows 98 CD into the CD-ROM drive. 19. Copy the Windows 98 installation files to your hard drive by typing the following: C: MD \WINDOWS MD \WINDOWS\OPTIONS MD \WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS COPY G:\WIN98\*.* C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS 20. Remove the Windows 98 CD and restart the OmniBook. To install a retail version of Windows 98 1. Restart the OmniBook and Enter: C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS\SETUP /IS 2. Select I accept the Agreement and click Next. 3. Enter the Product Key, then click Next. The Product Key is located on the Certificate of Authenticity that you received with your retail version of Windows 98. 4. When prompted, select Other Directory and click Next. 5. Enter C:\WINDOWS for the path, click Next. 6. Click Yes to continue with the specified directory. 7. Choose Portable on the Setup Options screen, then click Next. 8. Enter the appropriate User Information, then click Next. 9. Select Install The Most Common Components (recommended), then click Next. 10. Select your country or region and click Next. 11. Click Next to create a Windows 98 Startup Disk. 12. Click Cancel to skip creating the startup disk. 13. Click Next to start Copying Windows 98 Files to Your Computer. 14. When prompted with the PC Card Wizard click Next, Next, then Finish. 15. The Windows 98 Setup Wizard will now configure hardware, Control Panel, programs on the Start menu, Windows help, the MS-DOS program settings, Time Zone, and Microsoft Exchange. Enter any changes when the system displays the Time Zone screen. If you chose Microsoft Exchange during the installation, enter the information or click Cancel to enter it later. 16. When prompted, enter your computer and workgroup names and click Close. 17. When prompted to set up a printer, install your printer or click Cancel 18. Enter a Windows Password and confirm. To install video support for retail Windows 98 If you've installed a retail version of Windows 98, you'll need to install video support. The driver is located on the Recovery CD in \OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\WIN98\VIDEO. 1. From Control Panel, double-click Display, then click Settings. 2. Click Advanced, then Adapter. 3. Click Change. 4. Click Next at the Update Device Driver Wizard. 5. Select Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location, so you can select the driver you want and click Next. 6. Click Have Disk. 7. Enter the directory of the video drivers on the Recovery CD, then click OK. (\OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\WIN98\VIDEO\) 8. Click OK to select the NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV video driver. 9. Click Next to accept the driver location. 10. Click Finish. 11. Under Monitor, click Change. 12. Choose the Laptop Display Panel 1024 x 768, then click OK. 13. Click Close, and then Close again. Click Yes to restart the computer. 14. After reboot, re-enter the Display Properties window and click Settings. 15. Set the Desktop Area to 1024 x 768 and the desired Color Palette. 16. Click OK in Display Properties. 17. Select Restart the computer with the new color settings and Click OK. 18. Click Yes to Restart the computer. To install audio support for retail Windows 98 If you've installed a retail version of Windows 98, you'll need to install audio support. This driver is located on the OmniBook's hard drive or on the Recovery CD in \OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\WIN98\AUDIO. 1. From the audio drivers directory run Setup.exe. 2. Click Next at the Welcome screen. 3. Click Yes to accept the License agreeement. 4. Check both the MagicMedia 256AV Audio System and the NeoMagic MagicWave 3Dx Audio System and click Next. 5. Click Finish to restart the Computer. 6. From Control Panel, double-click System, then click Device Manager. 7. Select the Unknown Device under Other Devices and click Remove. 8. Click OK to confirm the device removal. 9. Close the System Properties window. 10. Shutdown and restart Windows 98. Note: Please install the latest version of the Windows Media Player in \OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\WIN98\NETSHOW\ by running MPFULL.EXE. This will prevent an issue if you Suspend when playing an audio or video file. To Install PC Card support for retail Windows 98 If you've installed a retail version of Windows 98, you'll need to install PC Card support. This driver is located on the OmniBook's hard drive or on the Recovery CD in \OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\WIN98\PCCARD. 1. From the Start menu, click Run. 2. Enter \OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\WIN98\PCCARD\PCCARDQ.EXE from the Recovery CD and click OK. 3. Shutdown and restart the OmniBook. To enable infrared support for retail Windows 98 If you've installed a retail version of Windows 98 and you wish to use infrared, you'll need to enable infrared support. 1. Reboot the OmniBook. 2. When prompted during the boot process, press F2 to enter the BIOS Setup utility. 3. Go to the System Devices menu. 4. Set the Infrared Port to Enabled. 5. Set the Mode to FIR. 6. Set the Base I/O address to either 2F8h IRQ3 or 3F8h IRQ4. 7. If necessary, set the DMA Channel to DMA 3. 8. Set the Parallel Port Mode to EPP. 9. Save and exit the BIOS Setup utility. 10. If prompted, enter C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS directory and click OK. 11. Click Yes to restart the computer. 12. Right mouse click on the Infrared icon on the Taskbar. 13. Click Enable infrared communication and click OK. To disable automatic CD-ROM detection Windows 95 will automatically detect and respond when you insert a CD. However, this prevents the OmniBook from automatically turning off after a period of inactivity if the CD-ROM drive is present. To disable this feature: 1. From Control Panel, double-click System, then click Device Manager. 2. Double-click CD-ROM drive. 3. Select the CD-ROM driver displayed, then click Properties. 4. Click Settings, then uncheck Auto Insert Notification. 5. Check DMA to increase CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Performance and click OK to accept. 6. Click OK to close the CD-ROM Properties window. 7. Close the System Properties window. 8. Click Yes to restart Windows 95. Installing Pointing Device Support Two pointing devices (pointing stick and touch pad) are built into your OmniBook. The default pointing device driver (PS/2 Mouse) support the basic features of both the pointing stick and the touch pad. Both pointing devices use the click buttons, which work like the right and left buttons on a standard mouse. What the buttons do depends on the software being used. You can customize the OmniBook to support the enhanced features of one of these pointing devices. You cannot activate enhanced features for both simultaneously. The following describes the pointing device driver options available on the OmniBook: * Basic PS/2 Mouse Driver - Supports the basic features of both (or either) pointing devices * PS/2 TrackPoint Driver - Supports the enhanced features of the pointing stick and the basic features of the touch pad * Touch pad Driver - Supports the enhanced features of the touch pad (no support for the pointing stick) To install the full pointing stick capabilities Enable the pointing stick 1. From the Start menu, shut down, then restart the OmniBook. 2. When you see the HP logo, press F2 to enter the BIOS Setup utility. 3. Select the System Devices menu. 4. Highlight Internal Pointing Devices and select Pointing Stick. (Choose Both if you want basic touch pad features available.) 5. Press F10 to save and exit. Install the pointing stick support 1. From Control Panel, double-click System, then Device Manager. 2. Open PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port under Mouse. 3. Click Driver, the Update Driver. 4. Click Next. 5. Click Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location, so you can select the driver you want and Click Next. 6. Click Have Disk 7. Enter the directory of the pointing stick drivers on the Recovery CD (\OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\WIN95\TRACKPNT) and click OK. 8. Click Next to accept the IBM PS/2 TrackPoint driver. 9. Click Yes to Update Driver. 10. Click Next to accept Driver. 11. Click Finish. 12. Close the IBM PS/2 TrackPoint Properties window. 13. Close System Properties. 14. Shutdown and restart the OmniBook. To install full touch pad capabilities Disable the pointing stick 1. From the Start menu, shut down, then restart the OmniBook. 2. When you see the HP logo, press F2 to enter the BIOS Setup utility. 3. Select the System Devices menu. 4. Highlight Internal Pointing Devices and select Touch Pad. 5. Press F10 to save and exit. Install touch pad support 1. From the Start menu click Run. 2. Run \OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\WIN98\TOUCHPAD\SETUP.EXE from the Recovery CD. 3. Click Next at the Welcome screen. 4. Click Next to accept the default destination directory. 5. Click Next to start copying files. 6. Click Finish to restart the OmniBook. Installing OmniBook Docking System Support If you are going to use the OmniBook Docking System you must install a new IDE driver in Windows 98. The OmniBook Docking System IDE driver is located on the Recovery CD at \OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\WIN98\DOCKING\IDE 1. From the Start menu, click Run, Enter \OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\WIN98\DOCKING\IDE\SETUP and click OK. 2. When prompted to install the CMD Bus Master IDE Driver click Yes. 3. Click Yes to Restart the computer. 4. After the OmniBook restarts, shutdown Windows 98. 5. Insert the OmniBook in the OmniBook Docking System. 6. Start Windows 98. 7. Windows 98 will build a Docking Hardware profile. 8. When prompted "to finish setting up your new hardware, you must restart your computer", click No. 9. When prompted "Do you want to reboot the system? System must be rebooted before the defice parameters can take effect", click Yes 10. After the OmniBook restarts, turn it off.Download Driver Pack
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