Win98 SE on a P4

[Dodger67]

I need to install Win98 on 3 new PC's (HP Pavilion d4100y). Outside of trying to find the chipset drivers what unforeseen issues may I encounter? In my searches I have seen some vague references to clock speed issues screwing up the install. Anything on this or some other pitfall I will encounter? BTW I did contact HP support and they gave me a link to the chipset drivers and when I looked it was for XP and 2k pro (Grrr...).

Any help will be greatly appreciated

 

[G0AOZ]

Should work fine - I've just had it working on an Asus P4P800-SE Intel 865 chipset with P4 3.2GHz.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[BadBigBen]

You could run into problems with the Timing, but as G0AOZ mentioned not necessarily...

You will though have to limit the MEM to 256mb, if I remember correctly, either through a script or Physically just installing 256mb...



Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[Dodger67]

Yea I remember a RAM issue. I 'think' (tell me if I am wrong) it will work with 512mb RAM but won't see it unless I install the patch (or mod some .ini file) AFTER I do the OS install. Otherwise, yea I need to buy a 256 stick if I can from HP... A

http://www Crap!

another issue I need to look up or re-look up. LOL

Thanks,
Dodger

 

[jurgen36]

Not quite correct, I use in one of my machines 1 gig of memory on the Asus p4p800E deluxe bord, no problems with the memory but I did fix the cache memory to 128 Mbytes. Otherwise it started to give problems with the graphic card. The system in question has tripple boot, Linux, Win98se2 and Winxp Pro corp.
Regards

Jurgen

 

[felixc]

You should be okay with your 512 megs. I have Win98 with 768 megs in a system. No problem.

I heard about something with large amounts of memory because Win98 can not cache it properly, making the system slower when there is too much memory. I don't know what this quantity is. Perhaps you can ask in the Windows forums.

The speed issue was a Win95 issue, where you had to install at a slow speed, then install a patch, before raising the CPU speed.

Don't forget to get the Microsoft updates after the installation.