Re: Windows 98SE VS. Windows Media Center

There's no problem with Win98 on a 100 GB drive.
(Personally I make a C-drive partition of
about 2.5 GB and set the rest for data partitions.
But you don't have to do that.)

Win98 can only use up to 500 MB RAM.

NVidia GeForce doesn't support 98 as of v. 4.

I had to deal with this recently because I was
making a new box and want to stay with 98. I
decided to stick with Via chipsets using onboard
graphics (I don't use games) because Via conveniently
has one set of drivers for all systems. Sis also still
has 98 support. With top-of-the-line graphic
cards like you're getting, I don't think there's support
for 9x with any of them.


I am restructuring my home computer. Originally when it was built at
Gateway, they loaded the system with Windows 98se. I have since
upgraded many components and loaded other operating systems. Now I am
considering going back to a clean load of the original Windows 98se.
Also on a separate hard drive I am going to load Windows Media Center
2005 edition. Does anyone know of any problems that I may run into or
situations to watch out for?


Another thing that I am worried about is my spare 100GB western digital

drive... Is it possible to load Windows 98se on a 100GB drive? I know
that I can in fact format the whole drive as FAT 32. But loading 98 on

it may cause problems.Thanks!!!


My Home system looks like this:


AMD Athlon 750MHz T-Bird processor


768MB SDRAM system memory


C: 15GB Quantum - Windows 98SE
D: 160GB Western Digital - Windows Media Center


Spare 100GB Western Digital HD


Nvidia Geforce 5500 256MB video card


Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 tv-capture card


Sound Blaster PCI-audio card, 128-bit audio...


Various other components are installed, but will not affect either
install.


Any thoughts would be helpful and yes Media Center has run on this
set-up before. I know the requirements for media center state that it
will not work but it does.


-Randy



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