A CMOS error means that the battery on the motherboard that stores
configuration information about your system is dead or dying. Get it
replaced now while you still can.
Skipping the files had nothing to do with it, and probably didn't matter if
they'd been installed by a prior network device.
--
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"Berry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:136f001c3f7ea$575d0df0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have installed a D-Link Wireless in my laptop, and
> everything is working- BUT! During driver installation, I
> was ask for the Win 98 se disk to look for
> 'iphlpapi.dll'
> 'services'
> 'vtcp.386'
> 'ndis.vxd'
> none of which were on my S.E. disk. What are these files-
> and are they necessary? If they are, where do I get them?
> The Wireless card seems to work fine- but now the laptop
> shows a CMOS error about once a day...could they be
> connected?