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98SE with dual core?
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I've been told that you can't run 98SE with a dual core processor. Is that true or, does 98SE simply only use one of the cores? TIA Chris. |
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98SE with dual core?
BinThrDunDat wrote:
I've been told that you can't run 98SE with a dual core processor. Is that true or, does 98SE simply only use one of the cores? 98 will run on a dual-core CPU. The 98 kernel was not written with multi-processor operation in mind so it will not perform the necessary housekeeping and organization to activate both cores and allocate processes to them. So 98 running on a dual-core will only use 1 of the cores. The Intel Celeron D 365 (3.6 Ghz) is probably the fastest single-core CPU that will ever be available from Intel, and I doubt that any core-2 cpu would run Win-98 faster than the D-365. Intel has some Core-Solo's, but I've never seen them available for retail sale, and their clock speed has never been higher than 2 ghz as far as I know. |
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BinThrDunDat wrote:
I've been told that you can't run 98SE with a dual core processor. Is that true or, does 98SE simply only use one of the cores? 98 will run on a dual-core CPU. The 98 kernel was not written with multi-processor operation in mind so it will not perform the necessary housekeeping and organization to activate both cores and allocate processes to them. So 98 running on a dual-core will only use 1 of the cores. The Intel Celeron D 365 (3.6 Ghz) is probably the fastest single-core CPU that will ever be available from Intel, and I doubt that any core-2 cpu would run Win-98 faster than the D-365. Intel has some Core-Solo's, but I've never seen them available for retail sale, and their clock speed has never been higher than 2 ghz as far as I know. |
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Thanks for the info. I sometimes still need to work with 98SE ....hence, I
didn't want to upgrade my second system to a dual core if it could not run SE. "98 Guy" wrote in message ... BinThrDunDat wrote: I've been told that you can't run 98SE with a dual core processor. Is that true or, does 98SE simply only use one of the cores? 98 will run on a dual-core CPU. The 98 kernel was not written with multi-processor operation in mind so it will not perform the necessary housekeeping and organization to activate both cores and allocate processes to them. So 98 running on a dual-core will only use 1 of the cores. The Intel Celeron D 365 (3.6 Ghz) is probably the fastest single-core CPU that will ever be available from Intel, and I doubt that any core-2 cpu would run Win-98 faster than the D-365. Intel has some Core-Solo's, but I've never seen them available for retail sale, and their clock speed has never been higher than 2 ghz as far as I know. |
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98SE with dual core?
Thanks for the info. I sometimes still need to work with 98SE ....hence, I
didn't want to upgrade my second system to a dual core if it could not run SE. "98 Guy" wrote in message ... BinThrDunDat wrote: I've been told that you can't run 98SE with a dual core processor. Is that true or, does 98SE simply only use one of the cores? 98 will run on a dual-core CPU. The 98 kernel was not written with multi-processor operation in mind so it will not perform the necessary housekeeping and organization to activate both cores and allocate processes to them. So 98 running on a dual-core will only use 1 of the cores. The Intel Celeron D 365 (3.6 Ghz) is probably the fastest single-core CPU that will ever be available from Intel, and I doubt that any core-2 cpu would run Win-98 faster than the D-365. Intel has some Core-Solo's, but I've never seen them available for retail sale, and their clock speed has never been higher than 2 ghz as far as I know. |
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98SE with dual core?
Hi Chris,
The problem is that you can run Windows 98 SE with a Dual Core Processor. The only problem is that you need to Limit the amount of Physical Memory you run in that computer to 1 GB otherwise, you won't be able to boot into Safe Mode if you have 2 GB of Physical Memory installed. I am in the middle of doing this exact same thing. I purchased a Mach Speed P4MSD-800D2 Motherboard with an Intel Pentium D 2.80 Ghz processor and one stick of 1 GB of ram almost at the same time. I did not have problems until I added a second stick of 1 GB of Ram about 30 days later. You need to reinstall Windows 98 SE from scratch, otherwise it will not work or run correctly. Start out with 1 GB installed. After Windows is loaded and you can boot into the operating system, boot into Safe mode and go to the Advanced Menu of msconfig and Limit the amount of memory to a single figure of say 512 MB. Now shutdown the computer add the second stick of 1 GB if you go that route. Restart the computer and go into Safe Mode, you can't. Reboot the computer and restart Windows 98 SE and you can boot into Windows 98 SE. If the motherboard has SATA Controllers, you must disable them, because Windows 98 SE can't handle them. Just the one going to a DVD Drive. Leave the one to the Hard Drive Enable if it works. The computer I am working with, I am triple-booting into Windows 98 SE, Windows ME and Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 on FAT32 File System. -- thecreator "BinThrDunDat" wrote in message ... Hello: I've been told that you can't run 98SE with a dual core processor. Is that true or, does 98SE simply only use one of the cores? TIA Chris. |
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98SE with dual core?
Hi Chris,
The problem is that you can run Windows 98 SE with a Dual Core Processor. The only problem is that you need to Limit the amount of Physical Memory you run in that computer to 1 GB otherwise, you won't be able to boot into Safe Mode if you have 2 GB of Physical Memory installed. I am in the middle of doing this exact same thing. I purchased a Mach Speed P4MSD-800D2 Motherboard with an Intel Pentium D 2.80 Ghz processor and one stick of 1 GB of ram almost at the same time. I did not have problems until I added a second stick of 1 GB of Ram about 30 days later. You need to reinstall Windows 98 SE from scratch, otherwise it will not work or run correctly. Start out with 1 GB installed. After Windows is loaded and you can boot into the operating system, boot into Safe mode and go to the Advanced Menu of msconfig and Limit the amount of memory to a single figure of say 512 MB. Now shutdown the computer add the second stick of 1 GB if you go that route. Restart the computer and go into Safe Mode, you can't. Reboot the computer and restart Windows 98 SE and you can boot into Windows 98 SE. If the motherboard has SATA Controllers, you must disable them, because Windows 98 SE can't handle them. Just the one going to a DVD Drive. Leave the one to the Hard Drive Enable if it works. The computer I am working with, I am triple-booting into Windows 98 SE, Windows ME and Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 on FAT32 File System. -- thecreator "BinThrDunDat" wrote in message ... Hello: I've been told that you can't run 98SE with a dual core processor. Is that true or, does 98SE simply only use one of the cores? TIA Chris. |
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thecreator wrote:
If the motherboard has SATA Controllers, you must disable them, because Windows 98 SE can't handle them. That's bull****. Windows-98 works just fine with SATA drives configured on SATA ports. In fact, if you have a SATA drive larger than 128 gb, you must use the SATA port and NOT re-map the drive as an IDE. |
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