How to Install Windows 98
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Computer Specs Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0 ghzs Hard Drive: Western Digital 80 gbs EIDE Video: S3 Virge 2 mbs Motherboard: KV8 Max3 754 K8T800 ATX RAM: 512 mbs Corsair XMS DDR Optical Drive: Creative Labs CD-ROM Before you install Windows 98 here is the check list. 1. You have 512 mbs of ram or less. A Pentium 4 or Athlon computer made in 2000 to 2005. Computers that were made from 2000 to 2005 have Windows 98 drivers. 2. Windows 98 Boot Disk. If you don't have a floppy disk, you can get it here. http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/98.html . You can download the Windows 98 Boot Disk in ISO format, and burn it on a CD and boot from it. 3. Hard drive that is 137 GBs or less. Although, you can use hard drives over 137 GBs, but the hard drive will be detected as a 137 GB hard drive. 4. Install only one hard drive. You need to do this, because Windows 98 detected the optical drive as D:\, so if you install 2 hard drives it will detect the optical drive as E:\. If that happens, you will have problems later in the installation process, because the optical drive will not be detected. Procedures 1. Go into the Bios. 2. Change the boot settings. If you are using a optical drive as your main device, you will set the boot priority as 1. CD-ROM/DVD-ROM 2. Hard Drive. If you are using a floppy disk , you will set up the boot priority as.... 1. Floppy Disk Drive. 2. Optical Drive. 3. Hard Drive. 3. Insert the Windows 98 Boot Disk to create a disk partition. This to make your hard disk usable. 4. After you created a partition, restart the computer. 5. Format the hard drive. Format C: 6. Insert the Windows 98 CD and restart the computer. 7. Install Windows 98 8. Install the drivers It has been a long time since I installed Windows 98 on a computer. I had a spare computer which was a AMD Athlon 64 3200+, and I decided to turn it into a retro PC. I was looking for a Pentium 2, or a Pentium 3 to turn it into a Windows 98 machine; however, I had a computer that could do that already. All you really need is a computer made from 2000 to 2005, and most computers made during that timeline have Windows 98 drivers. The problem is that sometimes, some of the drivers will not work on a Windows 98 operating system. In my case, the sound driver and built in network driver did not work. Now, I have to try to buy a Sound Blaster PCI 128 or a PC 16 sound card. Fortunately, a lot of those cards still do exist, and they have Windows 98 drives that work. I also need to find a 3dfx Voodoo graphics card, so I can play my old PC games on it. Getting the network card isn't important, because I don't intend to connect to the internet with it. I am just glad the operating system installed flawlessly.
I used to play for example battlefield 2, fallout 3, CoD and bioshock. Many of them at full performance and full quality.
Always on Windows XP with 2gb ram and with ATI x1950 PRO.
Nice video for a retro computer.
You could use that mobo and CPU for a even better retro computer. I will recover mine next month and I will restore it too. :)