I'm installing windows 98 in a 200 mhz computer and its giving me a lot of crap about drivers and stuff...I'm wondering if windows 98 was even meant to be running in a 200 mhz comp...please shed some light into this.
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I'm installing windows 98 in a 200 mhz computer and its giving me a lot of crap about drivers and stuff...I'm wondering if windows 98 was even meant to be running in a 200 mhz comp...please shed some light into this.
yeah, should run ok.. if you have 32meg of mem..
I ran 98se on a 75mhz laptop for a while
I'm running windows 2000 in a 133 mhz :) so 98 should work in a 200 mhz...Quote:
Originally posted here by Cybr1d
I'm installing windows 98 in a 200 mhz computer and its giving me a lot of crap about drivers and stuff...I'm wondering if windows 98 was even meant to be running in a 200 mhz comp...please shed some light into this.
In theory WIN98 should run quite happily. I currently have 98se running on a Digital Venturis FX5133 which has a P1/133MHz processor.
On the other hand I was completely unable to load straight WIN98 on the same box.............it just froze about 12 minutes from the end :confused:
I also have Win98 (first edition) running on aPackard Bell :spit: P1/150MHz quite happily.
98se even runs quite nicely on a friend's P1/133 with only 16Mb of RAM.................yes I am serious about that!
As I have a fair collection of "antique" boxes I can probably help you here, but I really need to know all the hardware details, and which 98 it is that you are running.
When it comes to driver problems I have had more problems with Me. You say a 200Mhz, but not if it is P1,or P2...I am not sure but I think that both exist at 200MHz?...my real question is probably "does it support MMX technology"
Can you give me more details about the problems you are getting..error messages etc?
cheers
200 Mhz might even be a 486. I believe the min. requirments are 486/66 w/16 Meg RAM. I had 98 running on a 386 w/80387 co-processor and 16meg. This is a truely multi-tasking system. that is youd better have something else to do while your using it.
Same as nihil I am also running Windows 98 SE on a 133MHz pentium, with 32MB RAM, this is infact my only computer and its been like this for 3 years.
If its drivers problems I would imagine this has to do with hardware incompatibilities, though 98 has terific hardware suport.
Maybe he isn' talking about the minimum requirements, but about the maximum ;)... Heh, that sounds rather stupid, but I doubt windows 98 will run on a pentium 4 at full capacity, because it wasn't programmed for that architecture. Same with new hardware and the like. I have windows 98 on a 250 or something but the cpu probably isn't the problem. I think the problem is with the hardware wich can work with windows 98 very well, but is build later then windows 98. For all those things you need drivers. You can probably find most on the internet and maybe you even got some driver cd's :o.
98 can run on a 200 meg. I had one set up with 98 on it. The only thing I can't tell you is whether it will do a direct install because my machine had win 95 on it and I ran the upgrade to 98. If nothing else, you could go this same route.
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Hardware Requirements for Windows 98 are as follows:
HD-120MB of free HD space
A new install can require up to 355MB
You need to have room on your HD for swap space
Processor 486DX/66 MHz (min)
Processor Pentium or higher (recommended)
Memory 16MB (min)
Memory More improves speed
Hope this helps.
DarkCarniv0l
Thank you very much :)...some company donated about 20 Pentium 1/200 mhz gateway 2000 comps to a church i'm helping out but I guess they really messed up on deleting the stuff. I installed windows 98 but it wasn't reading many of the drivers off the CD and when I manually tried to browse for them in the CD...the comp would always crash "Blue screen" and cause a run32.dll illegal operation. Also, one thing that I thought was odd is that when i was in M$ DOS, it was reading programs in drive A:/. Isn't drive A: for floppy only? There was no floppy inserted in the drive but it was still reading programs in there such as fdisk when I did a dir/w. Any ideas?
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I'm installing windows 98 in a 200 mhz computer and its giving me a lot of crap about drivers and stuff...I'm wondering if windows 98 was even meant to be running in a 200 mhz comp...please shed some light into this.
Yes Win 98 and 98se will run on a pentium 200mmx and as others have quoted on slower..Quote:
some company donated about 20 Pentium 1/200 mhz gateway 2000 comps to a church i'm helping out but I guess they really messed up on deleting the stuff.
Your first comment said that the problem was drivers.. well that is correct Win98 didn't come with drivers for every piece of hardware.. and seeing as how it is a gateway computer.. you may find that you will have to go to their website to find drivers for the bits and pieces that you need.. and those you don't find... www.google.com , there are a pile of sites that offer links to the companies driver pages, there are a few out there that have an archive of old drivers.. best of luck
BTW: I would have listed some of my Driver sites.. but seeing as I am not at my usual machine.. you know the excuse..
Cheers
Hi................bin thinkin..............
If you have a P1, it does not support MMX, which may be a problem with anything that requires that level of multimedia support. I have actually only come across this with a pair of 56.6 modems, and my P1/133 happily runs a SiS 305 32Mb graphics card, 60 & 12 Gb HDDs, 52x CD Rom, 56.6 modem etc……………..so I do not think that there is a performance issue here.
You say that you got 20 ex-corporate boxes. This is good, as they will probably be pretty much consistent in their specs? I guess that all we have to do is get one going and the rest will follow without problem :)
The downside is that they are Gateways………………Gateway seem to have dropped out of the PC market, and the support is pretty minimal. My Gateway is a 386 Cyrix with 16 Mb & 98se.……….things take a while to happen ………Tedob1 knows about this :) .
Being ex-corporates, I don’t think that they will have anything that unusual or exotic on board so I guess your problems must be with the software.
I have had a lot of problems with older boxes loading 98/98se and Me, particularly in its finding drivers. And I am very positive about this one……………..
I suggest you get hold of two of them, and follow exactly the same steps on each. My reason for this is to eliminate any confusion that might arise from a defective box. You should load the 3.5 floppy and run the standard set up from CD, including format disk. We now have two options:
1. Let the install run through, and when it re-boots and starts looking for the drivers, try to find them.
2. Let the install run through and take the “skip file” option when it looks for missing drivers. This will load a basic WIN98. You can then re-start and look for the drivers later, when it re-detects the hardware.
You mention you were getting the BSOD (blue screen) so #2 might be the best option?
My observations of Win98 are that it loads drivers then can’t find them? When you get the pop-up that says it cannot find the file and check the details, you see that it is looking for .CABS or suchlike, and trying to put stuff into the Windows system files. If you back out and search for the files, you often find that they are already loaded!!!
Don’t ask me why……real nice of Mr. Gates to provide a free intelligence test with his OSes :D ?
The typical paths to search are:
C:\windows\
C:\windows\system32\
D:\win98\
The last one is on your CD (so use whatever drive letter for “D”)………..this is where the drivers really are…NOT in the folder called “drivers”
Once you have got this far you can start using the normal Windows driver update mechanism to get the best and latest for your peripherals etc.
Cheers
Run Linux . Hell of a lot more stable than 98 , and lots more support , because Microsoft have stopped supporting it i think ... Also much more flexible :D
Me again , forgot to mention that u can run a version of linux on a 465 or suthin ...
If you are going to run linux, then run mosix too! It makes your 20 computers to a small cluster...