Re: Motherboard drivers and win98se.


"Sam Bertui" <none@none> wrote in message
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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!

Hi,

I just installed a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939.

I am using it with XP and Mandrive 2006.

Looking at their site, I see they have drivers for Win98 for the onboard
sound, chipset and ethernet, as well as their BIOS utility and USB 2.0.

http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-K8NSC-939.htm

This is a good nForce 3 chipset board with an AGP slot instead of a PCI-E
slot. It has 5 PCI slots and 8 channel audio (you can buy the optional
bracket for a few quid). The BIOS upgrade utility works well.

Worth a look anyway.

HTH

Martin


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