Hi guys.

I think I got myself in big trouble here. I recently installed 98SE on my old PC.
Yesterday I installed the official RCA Lyra MP3 player driver from my CD.

It WANTED to reboot to finnish installing the driver. I let it. When the OS rebooted it displayed a new hardware install window. I successfully installed the RCA Lyra and one other device. But failed to install "Unknown device" and a "USB mass storage device". It then gave me the blue screen of death saying "A fatal exception 00 has occurred at 0028:C1C2E683 in VXD DiskTSD (3) + 00001E13. The current application will be terminated.

* Press any key to terminate
* press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart your computer"

When I click a key to terminate my computer seems to freeze at loading my blank desktop and black screen (no taskbar, icons etc.). I cannot get into Windows.

I don't understand why this happened. The driver was a good one certified for 98SE (ME etc.) from a manufactures CD.

Can somebody please help me?Not the first time I've seen manufacturer's drivers not function under Win98SE.   Sometimes this is due to believing Win98 is exactly the same as Win98SE.  They are more different than the name implies.  However, Win98SE is far superior.  Sometimes Win2k drivers will work.
Since you can't boot Win98SE, temporarily remove the device and then uninstall the software. Quote from: Computer_Commando on October 08, 2009, 05:34:16 PM

Sometimes this is due to believing Win98 is exactly the same as Win98SE.  They are more different than the name implies.  However, Win98SE is far superior.

Since you can't boot Win98SE, temporarily remove the device and then uninstall the software.

Sometimes Win2k drivers will work.

1.  So the driver thinks i'm running 98?
2.  I removed the device and I can get into 98 now. How do I remove the driver? I uninstalled the entry "Lyra digital audio player" from the add/remove programs.
3.  I don't think I have 2K drivers, I believe my driver on the CD is a all-in-one driver for 98SE, ME and 2K.

1.  No.  The driver is NOT for 98SE, since it didn't work for you.  It's always possible that the device is defective.  Can you test it on an XP or later box?

I had similar issues with a Sandisk Flash Drive, didn't lock computer, but would not function.  Same computer with triple boot, functioned perfectly in Win2k & WinXP.

3.  Once in a while I find some third party or other drivers.  Try www.driverguide.com

...Which should I try first?