re: install windows 98 on my new computer? Monday, October 6, 2008 at 7:41 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) heh heh wrote: |Hello, | Hello, yourself. |[...]I made the same mistake you did | *I* didn't make the error. This forum is threaded. Next time you reply to a post, scroll to the bottom of the page. If the post to which you want to respond is NOT in italics and NOT underlined, click the post that contains the points on which you want to comment and reply to **that**. (Don't just reply *anywhere* in the thread.) You may want to change your forum preferences http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/config to "tree format". |[...]I[...]tried to put 98SE on a newer (2008)motherboard[.] no go. | The moral of this story is: Most hardware you can buy off the shelf ASSuMEs it will be used with Windoze XP. (Vista has thrown yet another monkey wrench into expectations, as driver support from manufacturers ranges from passable to abysmal to none.) |However there are still[...]new motherboards |that still have drivers for win98SE[.] research, research. | Yes. If it doesn't EXPLICITLY say it supports your OS (and *version*, if using M$), ASSUME THAT THOSE DEVICE DRIVERS DO NOT EXIST and move on to a vendor WHO SUPPORTS *YOU*. If you have *old* hardware and want to know if it will work under a *new* OS, do your homework: Start by reading the packaging/advertisement. More resources: http://www.google.com/search?q=XP.Readiness.Test http://www.google.com/search?q=linuxhardware+HardwareSupport+supported.hardware.list As the OP *understood* that W98 support did NOT exist for his MoBo, this whole thread is silly. cache of http://www.karlsforums.com/faq/faq_devicedriver.htm ++What.is.a.device.driver How he expected someone to produce M$-compatible device drivers out of thin air (when the manufacturer hadn't bothered to) is just clueless. Maybe he was thinking of Linux's path to remedy the non-existent driver problem: cache of http://lwn.net/Articles/276973 Written in response to: re: install windows 98 on my new computer? (heh heh: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 6:08 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] install windows 98 on my new computer? (Matt H.: Sun, Oct 5, 2008, 12:22 pm) re: install windows 98 on my new computer? (bob wells: Sun, Oct 5, 2008, 1:01 pm) re: install windows 98 on my new computer? (Matt H.: Sun, Oct 5, 2008, 1:36 pm) re: install windows 98 on my new computer? (bob wells: Sun, Oct 5, 2008, 2:17 pm) re: install windows 98 on my new computer? (gewg_: Sun, Oct 5, 2008, 2:14 pm) re: install windows 98 on my new computer? (heh heh: Mon, Oct 6, 2008, 6:08 pm) re: install windows 98 on my new computer? (gewg_: Mon, Oct 6, 2008, 7:41 pm) re: install windows 98 on my new computer? (C K: Sun, Oct 5, 2008, 1:18 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum