Hilarious wrote:

It makes me a little sad to think that Win98 is a no-hoper on my
flash new kit (Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H by the way, 1GB DDR2).

What is a "flash new kit" ?

Do you mean "brand new motherboard" ?

Yes, win-98 probably will not run because it has an Intel chipset
(Intel ICH8R). Win-98 support for intel chipsets stopped at ICH5R.

Why don't you get this motherboard instead:

ASROCK 775D-VSTA

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...ual-VSTA&s=775

It's got both AGP and PCI-e slots, and I've gotten it to work great on
Win-98.

I paid something like $80 (CDN) for it.