I see the problem. I've had the luck to clean install the 98se OS on just such a laptop. But I didn't get the drivers from driverguide, but now http://www.hp.com (was compaq.com.)
Why not go to the source?
Bob
Have just done a clean isntall of win98SE on a Compaq Pressario 1260 and I cant get the graphics driver to install. I have downloaded the file from driverguide.com and it is an exe file but if I try to run the file it says there is an error if I try to install the driver it says it cant find the file. Help what do I do with this file gow do I get it to be an inf file that it is looking for?

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