Re: Motherboard drivers and win98se.

fred wrote:
In article <46lftnFbe4c8U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gaz <gazter@xxxxxxx>
writes
Sam Bertui wrote:
I wonder if anyone can help out here. I'm trying to figure out what
barebones system to buy/make and have got stuck on the motherboard. Most
new motherboards, it seems, have drivers that will not work in win98se.

I need to build a new PC which will run both win98se and another OS
(either XP or linux, haven't decided yet). As far as computing power
goes it doesn't have to be state of the art, 2G or above will probably do.

Other requirements/questions:

AGP support (not sure whether pci-express will work with win98se(?)
IDE hard disk (not bothered about SATA)
room for expansion

TIA!
Any via chipset or nforce chipset will certainly work.

Find out what the chipset of the board is, and go to the website of the chipset maker and see. I havent come across any board which wont work on win98se because of lack of chipset drivers.

I wasted many hours/days trying to get an Asus A7N8X-VM400 mobo
working on W98, it was a very painful experience and the built in
networking never got going. Had to download many different driver versions
which said they would work but didn't. I recently had cause to look at it
again and couldn't even get the video drivers right, looks like I forgot the
right funny handshake to persuade it to work.

My vote is _not_ for nVidia in this setup. (Works v nicely under XP tho')

It was exactly this sort of painful experience which you had which prompted my querry. Hoping I might get soem replies to save time...
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