Win98 chipset drivers on modern hardware?

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I'm looking at building the latest and greatest PC possible that still has Win98 drivers available to it. My fastest "legacy" PC is currently a Pentium 4 2.6Ghz Northwood. Intel had drivers for the 865 chipset. It dual boots between XP and 98.

I would love to build a C2D and also dual boot between 98 and XP, but I don't know if modern chipsets have Win98 drivers anymore. I would be willing to look at the AMD equivalent too. What are some of the last chipsets made that have Win98 drivers?

Yah, I could probably look this up myself, but I was thinking somebody here might know.
 
diggƒreak;1034487302 said:
May I ask why you are running Windows 98? I'd suggest getting whatever hardware you want and then just installing Windows98 in VirtualBox or VirtualPC.
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It looks like from the Intel side, that I have the latest mobo that supported Win98 already. Maybe I'll just keep the PC for the kids.

The answer to your question is for old kids games that I have. VPC/VMware won't work. They don't support Direct3D or DirectX very well.
 
Intel 875 should work as well (this doesn't gain you much though, haha), some of the VIA LGA 775 boards *might* do 98/ME, but this is doubtful

AMD wise, Socket 939 boards should be fine, but beyond that, good luck (again this doesn't give you much more performance)

with the 865 chipset, you can upgrade from the Northwood 2.6 to a faster chip, like these:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=P43200478&cat=CPU (guessing P4C)
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=P43000E478&cat=CPU (P4E)
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=P43000C478&cat=CPU (P4C)

and graphics card wise you can go as high as GeForce 6 (GeForce 6 gives you Win95/98/ME and beyond, GeForce 7 is Win2000-Later), and from AMD, you're limited to Radeon 9800 or lower (if you were curious)

honestly for anything legacy that you might need Win98 to run, I'm guessing we're probably talking DirectX 6 or earlier, your northwood 2.6 is probably more than enough
 
Thanks for the response.

Well, the point was I want a modern PC for XP and/or Win7, but if it was possible to still get something with Win98 support that would be a good deciding factor. It appears that is not in the cards.

The current Northwood is shared between my wife and kids. I dual boot between XP and 98 for them. Some old games need 98. XP won't work. This newly built PC will be for the same reason.
 
Yah, I think you already have the latest Win98 compatible parts. ;)
 
diggƒreak;1034507087 said:
VMWare has good support even with 3D DirectX9 Games.
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Not in Win98, AFAIK. Only XP. And the games I want to run were made with DirectX 3, 5 and 6 in mind.
 
you can run windows xp then run the old games in windows 95/98 compatibility mode.. should solve those issues and allow you to build a little more modern rig..
 
:rolleyes: never fails if the op wants not to do something a certain way becasue of expierience he has....
somebody always jumps in but you can......

never fails
 
There used to be an 865 based board made by Asrock that supported Core 2 Duos. You might look into one of those
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
you can run windows xp then run the old games in windows 95/98 compatibility mode.. should solve those issues and allow you to build a little more modern rig..
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doesnt really work, I have a few win98 games that never worked with that compatibility mode
 
ryan_975 said:
There used to be an 865 based board made by Asrock that supported Core 2 Duos. You might look into one of those
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Yep, I saw that one. It's the only one.

Now I have to decide if I want that or just scratch the idea and keep two PC's at their desk. I've had some one-of-a-kind motherboards in the past that were a unique blend and they were always pretty cool to own.
 
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