Ok, I've just finished installing Win98se on this motherboard:

Asrock 775Dual-VSTA

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...l=775Dual-VSTA

This board has:

- Via PT880 Pro/Ultra northbridge
- Via VT8237A southbridge
- Realtek ALC888 7.1 channel audio codec with high-def
- VIA PHY VT6103 lan (only 100 mbps)
- 2 Dual Channel DDR slots
- 2 Dual Channel DDR-2 slots
- 4 PCI slots
- 1 PCI-express slot
- 1 AGP slot 4X/8X (supports only 1.5V boards, not 3.3V)
- 2 SATA connectors
- this is a socket 775 board.

CPU: Celeron D, 3.46 ghz, 533 fsb.
Memory: 2 x 256 mb DDR

I might replace it with a 3.6 ghz version which I think was just
released by Intel last month (probably the fastest Celeron that will
ever be made) and will probably swap the DDR memory with DDR-2.

Anyone considering building a high-end system soley for win-98 use
would probably be wasting their money with a Pentium that does
hyperthreading, or any of the dual or quad-core CPU's as win-98
apparently can't make use of those features. On the other hand, the
Celeron D's apparently do overclock very well, with some accounts of
running stable at up to 4.9 ghz.

This would seem to make a great board to use as a dual-boot platform
though.

Hard drive: 160 GB Seagate Barracuda (SATA).

Hard drive was partitioned with On-Track Disc Manager (Seagate Disc
Wizard). Two partitions (32 gb and 121 gb). Both partitions with
FAT-32, both using 4kb cluster size.

Video card: ATI Radeon 7000 (dual head output). 128 mb, PCI bus.

I will (soon) install a primary display driver in the AGP slot. It
might be an ATI all in wonder radeon 7800 that I already have. The
7000 will then be the secondary driver, and in total I'll be able to
hook up 3 monitors to this machine.

I have 2 500gb Western Digital SATA drives coming in about a week that
will be installed in place of the single 160 gb Seagate.

Ok, so win-98 installed relatively easily. After messing with various
drivers, here's what I get:

In Device manager, I'm seeing 2 unknown items under "Other Devices":

- item 1 is listed as a PCI card
- item 2 is listed as an Unknown Device

Using a program called "unknown device identifier" it seems that item
1 is this:

- High Definition Audio Controller
- Chip Vendor: Via Technologies inc
- Device: PCI card
- OEM Vendor: ASRock Inc.
- PnPID: VEN_1106&DEV_3288&SUBSYS_08881849&REV_10

I have no idea what Item 2 is. There are no resources listed for it
in device manager, and the unknown-device-identifier does not list an
"unknown device".

The joystick driver is also listed as being a problem, and there is
also a PCI bus listed with a yellow (!). This is what device manager
is saying about this PCI bus entry:

"Windows could not load the driver for this device because the
computer is reporting two PCI VXD bus types (Code 2)."

It's listed as using I/O resource addresses 0CF8 - 0CFF, which
apparently can't be changed. This is conflicting with the other PCI
bus entry right above it in the device manager list.

Would that be the PCI-Express bus slot? I am seeing a "Via Standard
PCI to PCIE bridge" entry that appears fine.

All other motherboard resources appear to have been found and drivers
installed. This includes the USB 2.0 drivers, the AC-97 audio
drivers, the on-board NIC, and the SATA drivers (again, the SATA
controller appears as a SCSI driver in device manager).

So, I take it that there is no high-def win-98 driver for the realtek
codec - is there?

Anyone know what this PCI problem is, and how I can solve it?