re: Problems in WIN 98SE
Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
No Intel drivers then.. Keep them far away from the board. You need the drivers
for the board, or more specifically the driver disk or operating system disc for
the motherboard, which would have come from HP. If you didn't originally have an
HP machine, then you shouldn't have an HP board in it. If it is an HP machine, then
you need the discs that came with the motherboard, or download WIn 98 drivers "IF"
HP supports Win 98 on that motherboard. That was/is a replacement for an HP machine,
and as such, is modified for HP so some drivers may be different. Most of the time
no, but sometimes yes. You can check at the bottom of this page and see if you can
download drivers that you need.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=bph07371
The reason you probably won't find this board on the ASUS website is that it was
an OEM for HP and wasn't sold OTC by Asus.
There is a mistake on the specs page as it lists the processor brand as Intel when
it should have been AMD. A big goof on their part..
The board was shipped with XP preinstalled on the computer that the board would have
been in. As such, you may not find drivers for Win 98. Only if HP had support for
Win 98 will they have drivers on their website for it.
That board hasn't been made for at least 4 years, so what you have is a refurb or
a new old stock. Either is possible, but more of them are reurbished boards, and
many of them still have problems that show up after a while in my experience.
Will be interesting what the shop has to say about it.
In addition, if it has more then 512 meg of RAM, that is a problem without a change
in the VCache in the INI settings. A HDD size over 128 gig will be a problem even
if it is partitioned smaller for running Win 9X. Also a speed limit of 2.2 gig is
in there for the CPU but you are below that. I don't remember if there was an update
for that limitation or not.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q253912&LN=EN-US
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- re: Problems in WIN 98SE (Dave A.: Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 3:18 pm)
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