First post, by StormRyder
Well, modern motherboards come with chipset drivers, right? For example, my asus a7n8x driver package contains stuff like GART driver, SMBus driver, memory controller driver, etc (I don't know what any of those do, btw... if anyone wants to fill me in, I'd be pleased).
But for the old school mobo's, are no drivers necessary? I have only located drivers for my sound and video cards, that's it. My oldie system has an Advanced/EV (Endevour) motherboard with a 100 Mhz cpu. Beyond those, there appear to be no other drivers in existence. Certainly intel's website doesn't have anything else other than the sound driver and latest bios.
I actually want to format and do a clean re-install of Win98 SE. So the bottom line of my question is, am I missing chipset drivers or not? If i have the video and sound card drivers, am I good to go? Is there nothing at all that I need to install for the motherboard specifically? I'm kind of worried because of the fact that i have chipset drivers for my asus mobo, yet nothing for this oldie one.
P.S. Off topic, but is a mobo from that era referred to as a 486 mobo? Why?
Thanks!