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Hi,
I was able to install VB on Win2k3 host without any problems, and then installed Win98SE in virtual PC. There were some problems, but I was able to solve all of them, apart from these two:

I have two items in System Manager that I cannot solve, marked with question marks:
1) Other devices - PCI System Peripheral, and
2) System devices - Advanced Power Management support

Thanks in advance

The "PCI system peripheral" issue is normal. It's some device virtualized by VBox which Win98 does not recognize. Win98SE is not a fully supported OS.

As to the APM issue, I doubt that VirtualBox even has APM support - it's a very old standard, and VBox supports its successor, ACPI. Did you follow the instructions in the "Howtos and Tutorials" forum for installing Win98SE with ACPI support?

Thanks for reply.

OK on "PCI system peripheral" issue. Will ignore

Nah, I missed that part about installing ACPI during W98 setup. Any way to fix it now?

PS - Solved!
Found this instructions:
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/windows98/tune-37.html

Thank you for that link. That is useful information, if I get time I'll try to add it to the existing Win98 "howto" thread.

I'm glad to help, but please be sure to test it by yourself. Although I used to work in PC and LAN setup/repair/maintenance, it was a long time ago, and I forgot a lot.
Also, despite solving my APM/ACPI problem with above links, it now generated a new problem, with a printer port (see separate topic).

There are other advices around www. This one was among the first that popped out after googling for "install acpi support windows 98", and it looked like it should work.