Networking

Intel 10/1000 GT Pro Gigabit network controller.

very good piece of hardware.

Soundcards
M-Audio Audiophile 24/96. - Appears to work even better than in NT5.
Yamaha 724. - An old PCI card. Also provides basic 8-bit sound, OPL-3 FM, XG Level 1 synthesis to DOS programs. OPL-3 also works in pure DOS.

Printers
Lexmark E352dn/E250dn Laser Printer. - TCP/IP printing requires additional driver on Win98.

Network interfaces
Marvell Yukon 88E8001.

Hard disks
VIA VT6410 RAID controller, available on GA-8I915P Duo for example. It has driver for Win98 and can work with hard disks exceeding 127 GB independently of ESDi_506. Perhaps other VIA RAID controllers are also working.


What drivers does one need to properly install Win98 on the new Intel chipsets you have listed here?

This post has been edited by j7n: Jan 21 2008, 09:17 PM

Windows 95 has timing problems with CPU speeds higher than 350 Mhz.
What it will write on screen, if cpu speed is ~ 2 ghz?

It will complain that it doesn't have enough memory to initialise Windows.

about that 350mhz timing issues, i installed 95b on a celeron 1.3ghz but havent installed the update is there meant to be some error message?

also the mention about 95 not supporting hdds bigger then 32gb isnt that wrong

Awergh
The 350MHz timing problem in Win 95x was only relevant to AMD CPU and yes MS and AMD have a patch for this.
The next timing problem was at 2.1GHz and effected all CPU's as well as both Win 95x and Win 98FE there is a patch for Win 98 FE but not Win 95x as MS in there stupidity had already decided it was obsolete. Though I did see a thread here where someone was trying to patch 95 with the files from MS 98 patch.
I can't recall if it worked (I don't think it would).

32GB was the limit for FAT32 in Win 95OSR2x personally I not tried to use a drive larger than 30GB for my Win 95 set up. Though I may now experiment and try it with a larger drive.

HTH

This post has been edited by niknak: Feb 9 2008, 06:31 AM

USB + Firewire
ST-Lab f-116: USB2.0, Firewire400

TV tuners
all BT8x8 devices - driver support at www.iulabs.com (Ivan Uskovs Tweaked drivers)

CX88 - unsupported tuner, but It seems that Analog section is working correctly when installed manually.
xceive3028 - analog + dvb-t tuner - i found a driver, but i miss the hardware
DVB-T demodulators - drivers for Win9x are only few and cause BSOD or does not seem to work.

This post has been edited by Offler: Feb 26 2008, 02:54 AM

You can remove the Palit x800 GTO AGP from the list (r420 - vendor:1002 id:4a49). No way to make it work with Catalyst 5.9 or 6.2. It's listed in the *.inf and installs correctly but the driver never starts correctly.
galahs, your list says x800 Pro (r420) is supported and works fine. I don't know if this is just the Palit or every similar x800 but it sure doesn't work!

Anyway, I think it is better to add the X800GTO AGP (R420 core) to the incompatibility list.
Maybe it is not compatible with Win98SE or the main board.

The Palit X800 GTO AGP uses R420 core, but it was released since the end of 2005.
The revised card is different with old X800 PRO.

My X800 PRO(X80 PRO by ELSA) already works over 3 years, and it runs faster on Win98SE.

Scanner: Epson V350
This is probably one of the last scanners that have a Win98 driver.

Can't anyone make a database? It's difficult to search for harware devices in a topic.

R4-III Upgrade Revolution for DS (NDSL/NDS)
This is an adapter which is inserted into the Nintendo DS. Into this adapter you can insert a micro SD or micro SDHC card with .nds files (=images of Nintendo DS games), and you can play the games, without the original Nintendo cartridge.

The .nds game files can be downloaded from the internet under any opsys, e.g. Win98, but must be transferred then from the HDD to the micro SD/SDHC card via a USB card reader. The micro SD card reader which is enclosed with the R4-III Upgrade works under WinXP, but NOT under Win98, no driver (the Windows 98 SE Generic USB Mass Storage Device Drivers v3.3 nusb33e.exe downloaded from http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/w...age-drivers.php did not work).

I purchased separately several USB SD card readers, until I got one which actually does work under Win98 (a hama 55310 v3, works with a micro SD/SDHC card plus a "microSD ==> SD adapter"). On www.hama.de they have listed separate drivers for v1 & v2, but nothing for v3; the driver for v1 worked, but not the one for v2. When you replace the WinXP card reader in the package, the R4-III Upgrade is fully compatible with Win98. The R4-III adapter is a link between 3 worlds: PC, mobile phone technology (micro SD card) & the Nintendo DS. On a 4GB micro SDHC chip there is space for about 50 different games, depending on their size.

The R4-III Upgrade is a killer piece of hardware. The mule has 25 packs of fully working .nds files, with 100 game cartridges per pack, about 60 GBs altogether, which take less than a week because the files are not rare, heavy downloads currently, about 100-200 sources each.

The R4-III http://www.r4dsl.net/ is a must for Nintendo DS gamers and a reason for getting an SDHC card reader for Win98. Probably the most appreciated Xmas gift in a long time, costs about EUR 35.

Addendum: The R4 adapter canNOT be found at ebay (there are exceptions: http://cgi.ebay.com/Nintendo-DS-Lite-PINK-...1QQcmdZViewItem ,another exception at ebay Spain, where r4 ds is not in the item title, http://cgi.ebay.es/para-nintendo-ds-mas-2g...1QQcmdZViewItem , also ebay Germany and ebay Spain make money selling sponsored links for "R4 DS" searches, without offering R4 DS themselves, e.g. sponsored links to http://www.dsflash.es/index.php?cPath=21_31 ). In the US there is for example an online store http://www.stuffs4kids.com/R4DS_Revolution_s/4.htm (only older versions?). In seaside resorts in Spain they are in the shop windows of many electronic stores. I guess it's Nintendo fighting for their life, just as if the music industry tried to prohibit mp3 players.

This post has been edited by Multibooter: Sep 9 2008, 06:54 AM

That's great for homebrew, but for anything else it's copyright infringement. Buy the games you like.

You are absolutely right, I fully agree with you, but I don't even know how to use a Nintendo DS. My 13-year-old, however, told me he now doesn't need to buy any games anymore, and that he is just using backup copies

This post has been edited by Multibooter: Sep 9 2008, 12:24 PM

Win98 (not SE) was installed on Phenom X3 processor, motherboard Gigabyte GA-Ma770 DS3. But i had some errors during the setup, and i had no cursor on desktop, BUT IT WORKED!! ON SATA II DRIVE, WITH PCI-E 2.0 CARD and so on. Of course, I returned to XP.

Don't forget there FX 5500/5200 , X1550/X1300 and Geforce 6200, 8400GS, 8500GT, 8600GT PCI cards as well.

Does the 82.69 drivers have 8 series cards support up to the 8600GT?

Can someone tell me does the 82.69 drivers work with the 8400GS, 8500GT, AND 8600GT Cards?

AOL terminated their web hosting service so I had to move my website to http://www.geocities.com/rloew.



Windows ME SCANDISK and DEFRAG can be used in Windows 98 and have a limit of 1TiB.
There is a bug in the Windows 98, SE and ME FileSystems that under some conditions limits a Partition to 1TiB.



The standard FDISK can be used in Percentage mode up to 512GiB. I haven't tested the updated version since it is buggy. I have a Partitioning Program that can handle 2TiB.



Some Chipset based SATA controllers are recognized by Windows 9X as IDE drives. Windows 9X can support these SATA Controllers but a modified .INF file is required for proper operation.



FAT16 partitions up to 4 GiB are supported but some programs will not work properly. With Patches, a FAT16 partition can be uo to 8GiB.

Let me add my 2 cents...
IMHO, it's too risky to use:
1) FAT-12 above 32 MiB (127 MiB is possible with patches), it's better to use FAT-16 instead.
2) FAT-16 above 2 GiB (8 GiB is possible with patches), it's better to use FAT-32 instead.
Otherwise, soon