A Compaq CDR-8322B 32x CD-ROM drive to go in my Dell Dimension XPS M233S. More period accurate than the (broken) CD-RW drive that's currently in there!

Disabling DMA looks to have fixed the issue -I've booted the Win98 Ghost image off the 64GB CF card multiple times without any problems and turning it back on brought back the crashing on startup. Thank you so much @douglar and everyone for your help and suggestions!

Maybe the limit can be circumvented by using an USB cardreader *on* the Windows 98 PC itself. For preparing the big CF card, I mean. Not for booting. I've plugged the 64GB CF card via my USB 3.0 card reader into the Dell Win98 machine. The CF card is detected as a drive and is accessible in Windows …

Just tried making a Ghost image of the 8GB CF card on my Win10 PC then copying it to the 64GB CF card. Then, I booted off a floppy on the Dell Win98 machine, copied ghost.exe from the 64GB CF card to the RAM disk then used it to write the image onto the 64GB card (Ghost seems to be smart enough not …

No, doing it on my Win10 PC - there isn't enough room on the 8GB CF card to store the image if I use Ghost on the Dell Win98 machine and it only has the capacity to attach one CF card at a time. Is it possible that the Windows 10 computer is mounting the drive with a different geometry than the old …

No, doing it on my Win10 PC - there isn't enough room on the 8GB CF card to store the image if I use Ghost on the Dell Win98 machine and it only has the capacity to attach one CF card at a time.

I tried using robocopy to transfer the files from 8GB CF card -> 16GB FAT32 USB stick -> 64GB CF card but Win98 either throws up a exception in msgsrv32 or blue screens during bootup. I then downloaded Ghost 11.5.1 and used that to clone the 8GB CF card into an image then wrote that to the 64GB card …

I'm trying to move a Win98SE installation from a SanDisk Extreme III 8GB CF card to a SanDisk Extreme 64GB UDMA7 CF card to boot on my Dell Dimension M233S but it's proving far more fiddly than I expected. I tried Win32DiskImager and HDDRawCopy thinking that a clone of the 8GB card then a resize of …

Thanks. I ended up buying a USB4VC and an old Raspberry Pi in order to be able to our current USB keyboard and mouse with the Dell (with the added bonus of modern gamepad support too).

Thanks both of you. Did the VIA Northbridge chip (near the Processor Socket 370) not come with a heatsink originally? The motherboard was given to me way back when and it's never had a heatsink since it's been in my possession. Should the Northbridge chip have one and if so, are they hard to come by …

Just bought a refurbished Dell Dimension XPS M233S from 1997 from an eBay seller who also introduced me to this forum. It's very similar to the first Windows PC I owned back then but it's the first time I've done anything with vintage PC stuff in over 20 years so I'm pretty rusty and have a couple …

Hi everyone, I found this 2000 era-ish motherboard at my parents' house recently and I was wondering if anybody was able to identify it? It's got a Pentium III 866 CPU attached but I can't see any manufacturer name or model number on it. Also, am I right in thinking that I would need to scrape off …