re: install windows 98 on my new computer?
Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
Stop wasting your time. Win 98 will not run natively on your hardware. There are
no drivers if the motherboard does not support Win 9X. It's not just a driver issue,
as the manufacturer will tell you that the new design of the hardware is incompatible
with old Win 9X. (and on most of the new chipsets and hardware, they are right,
especially on Intel chipsets) Few new motherboards are capable of running Win 9X
natively, despite what is being posted here and on other websites.
The closest possibility that may enable you to run Win 9x is in a virtual environment,
but that may be limited by your 64 bit install of Windows. Can't help you with that
one as I haven't had time to investigate it..
Win 9X was never intended to support the new hardware and won't ever.
There is all kinds of info on the web for running Win 9X in a virtual environment.
That's the best you can expect to do. Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABEOpFU0h-g
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