Yes, these really existed. I actually was naive enough to purchase one in early 1998, when I was looking to replace my IBM Aptiva's 4X CD-ROM drive. I found this at my local Office Depot, and I it was priced between $150-$200, if I recall correctly. I originally had my sights set on Creative Labs' …

EDIT: I have now seen the "insert disk" animation screen above. Here's how to fix it: 1. For this specific hard disk drive, try removing the master/slave/cable select jumper on the rear of the drive, if it is present (hard to tell from the photo). For me, when this jumper was present on either …

Hello everybody! I have a problem on agp X800 video card and 855gm chipset. I encountered is when I run Blood or Duke3d games in Windows 98, I have image noise. I found out that if you put 256 colors in the monitor properties in Windows 98, then there is no problem in games, but if the color depth …

I'm a bit late to this post, so also posting for anyone else with similar problems: 1) For this machine to have its original software load, use a hard disk that is 2 GB or smaller, or, for a drive larger than 2 GB, partition it such that the partitions do not exceed 2 GB in size. This is because …

Similar case here, with an 865 chipset. Installed Windows 98SE with a Radeon X850 Pro in an ASRock 775i65G motherboard with a Pentium 4 520 (2.8 GHz, Prescott core) and 1 GB of RAM. Works perfectly, although Duke Nukem 3D does not work properly (lots of screen tearing and flickering). Oddly enough, …