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Is it possible to install Win98se on this computer?
Is it possible to install Win98se on this computer?
Computer brand (unknown), probably homemade. The motherboard is a ASUS M2A-VM ATI Radeon X1250 chipset ATI SB600 southbridge Bios Phoenix version ASUS M2A-VM ACPI BIOS revision 1705 dated 3-28-08 Processor - AMD Anthhlon 64 3200+ Socket AM2 (940). 2g RAM 500G harddrive (5 partitions). I'd like to install Win98se -and- XP Sp3 (dual boot) Is it possible on this system? Where might I find the drivers (if it is possible). |
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Is it possible to install Win98se on this computer?
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Is it possible to install Win98se on this computer? The motherboard is a ASUS M2A-VM ATI Radeon X1250 chipset ATI SB600 southbridge That board has an AMD 690G chipset. You can search the internet for anything that looks like or claims to be a win-98 driver for that chipset, but I doubt you'll find one. What-ever you download, what you can do quickly is unpack it and then do a file-find for all .inf files containing "chicago". You'll probably find SMbus driver, but that's it. The 690 chipset went into production in late 2006, which is after win-98 went EOL and so I really doubt there are any win-98 drivers. Your best bet is to look at the motherboards listed on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_690G And download the driver file for each of them, unpack the file and look for .inf files containing "chicago". |
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Is it possible to install Win98se on this computer? NO!
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@home.com wrote in message news:0eccj95dg41lqu6ji6qb7p3jkeq425t0sv @4ax.com... | Computer brand (unknown), probably homemade. | The motherboard is a ASUS M2A-VM | ATI Radeon X1250 chipset | ATI SB600 southbridge | Bios Phoenix version ASUS M2A-VM ACPI BIOS revision 1705 dated 3-28-08 | Processor - | AMD Anthhlon 64 3200+ | Socket AM2 (940). | 2g RAM | 500G harddrive (5 partitions). | I'd like to install Win98se -and- XP Sp3 (dual boot) | Is it possible on this system? | Where might I find the drivers (if it is possible). | Is it possible to install Win98se on this computer? No Win98se drivers for ATI Radeon X1250 chipset XP and UP But you can run as Windows 98 with Microsoft Virtual 2008 on the XP Sp3 Yes in Partition Number 5 If you like |
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Is it possible to install Win98se on this computer?
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Is it possible to install Win98se on this computer? Computer brand (unknown), probably homemade. The motherboard is a ASUS M2A-VM ATI Radeon X1250 chipset ATI SB600 southbridge Bios Phoenix version ASUS M2A-VM ACPI BIOS revision 1705 dated 3-28-08 Processor - AMD Anthhlon 64 3200+ Socket AM2 (940). 2g RAM 500G harddrive (5 partitions). I'd like to install Win98se -and- XP Sp3 (dual boot) Is it possible on this system? Where might I find the drivers (if it is possible). Yes, and no. For the RAM part of your install, the steps would be: 1) Do the first phase of installation. 2) On the reboot, don't let the second boot of Windows start, and instead reboot with a Linux CD, or any other thing that gives you a text editor. You edit a setting that prevents the OS from seeing more than 512MB of RAM. This is essential for stability on Win98. 3) Reboot, and let the system do the second boot cycle of the Win98 install. Finish the install. ******* http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912 System.ini [vcache] MaxFileCache=524288 With over 1GB of physical memory present, the Vcache change wouldn't be enough. You can tell Win98 to ignore memory, using [386enh] MaxPhysPage=20000 (hexidecimal, means throw away anything above 512MB) ******* The main reason this isn't a good idea, is finding a Win98 driver for the 690G. If you can find one of those, then it might be worth seriously pursuing. If you have a PCI Express video card or a PCI video card with Win98 driver, then again, you're in business. There aren't a lot of PCI Express cards suitable, so it would mean using PCI. (I have a PCI FX5200 I could use.) I've installed Win98 on a Core2 system, and it was possible because the chipset was VIA, and they had support "back to the dawn of time". One of the advantages of not fixing or improving the hardware blocks in the chipset :-) Win98 can only use one core of the processor, but feels pretty fast when you're done. I was able to do the install, on my 4GB WD drive, with room to spare. So it doesn't take a lot of disk space. I had to trim down the visible RAM, to make this installation possible. The machine had 2x1GB installed, to run other Windows OSes, and the hack to disable some of the RAM was needed to make it work. Win98 is OK at 512MB, things get tricky between 512MB and 1GB, and above 1GB nothing good is going to happen. Partially due to how the AGP address space was handled or something. Only a few PCI Express era ATI video devices, got drivers for older OSes. The reason I could do my install, is my Core2 motherboard had both AGP and PCI Express video (it's a weird Asrock motherboard), and I happened to be using an old AGP card at the time. It's one amazing motherboard. DDR or DDR2 memory. AGP (brown slot) or PCI Express (purple slot) video cards. A parallel port connector. PS/2 connectors. USB. Ethernet. IDE and SATA connectors (could use more SATA). VIA chipset has SATAII bug fixed. Only thing really wrong with it (for $65), is the BIOS developers seemed to have "lawyer troubles", and weren't allowed to properly finish the BIOS. Something was going on behind the scenes. Production of boards stopped, when they ran out of VIA chipsets. http://www.asrock.com/mb/photo/4Core...%20R2.0(m).jpg I've had everything between Win98 and Windows 8 on that thing. On Windows 8, I would need a PCI Express video card, as my AGP is too old to have a driver. I ran Windows 8 preview on it. Both CPU cores work in that case. Paul |
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