bjwil1991 wrote:

Got another HP Pavilion desktop computer that has an OEM manufactured ASUS motherboard that has the following specs: […]
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Got another HP Pavilion desktop computer that has an OEM manufactured ASUS motherboard that has the following specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ @ 2.1GHz Socket 462(A)
RAM: 512MB DDR-333 RAM (max: 1GB)
I/O: 2x PS/2 ports, 4x USB (plus 2x headers), 1x FireWire-400 (plus 1x header), Sound Card with headers, VGA, RS-232, Parallel, 2x IDE, 1x FDD, 2x SATA, 3x PCI, 1x AGP, Ethernet
Chipsets: VIA KM400A & VT8237
FSB: 266/333/400*

* Locked by HP, or can be changed with the Advanced BIOS

The system itself came with a USB card reader w/ USB 2.0, 160GB Western Digital HDD with Windows 7 installed, broken HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo (broken pieces of a disk is in there), Linksys Wireless G PCI, 56K Modem, and 4 USB 2.0 ALi PCI card.

My plan for the HDD would be to DBan it and clone Windows 98SE onto the hard drive from the 32GB (will use the backup program to backup everything and get it to copy over and re-install certain things that are needed).

Would this be a good candidate for Windows 98SE?

i have a soft spot for A7V8X series(nostalgic reasons) but yeah a high performance windows 98 or a early xp.

bjwil1991 wrote on 2018-04-30, 16:27:

Got another HP Pavilion desktop computer that has an OEM manufactured ASUS motherboard that has the following specs: […]
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Got another HP Pavilion desktop computer that has an OEM manufactured ASUS motherboard that has the following specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ @ 2.1GHz Socket 462(A)
RAM: 512MB DDR-333 RAM (max: 1GB)
I/O: 2x PS/2 ports, 4x USB (plus 2x headers), 1x FireWire-400 (plus 1x header), Sound Card with headers, VGA, RS-232, Parallel, 2x IDE, 1x FDD, 2x SATA, 3x PCI, 1x AGP, Ethernet
Chipsets: VIA KM400A & VT8237
FSB: 266/333/400*

* Locked by HP, or can be changed with the Advanced BIOS

The system itself came with a USB card reader w/ USB 2.0, 160GB Western Digital HDD with Windows 7 installed, broken HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo (broken pieces of a disk is in there), Linksys Wireless G PCI, 56K Modem, and 4 USB 2.0 ALi PCI card.

My plan for the HDD would be to DBan it and clone Windows 98SE onto the hard drive from the 32GB (will use the backup program to backup everything and get it to copy over and re-install certain things that are needed).

Would this be a good candidate for Windows 98SE?

Found this same Pavilion (T749.fi version) for 10 bucks week ago, had all the gear inside still and works perfectly. Someone had dropped newer 320Gb Seagate HDD in it. Sadly thou, the Asus GeForce FX5500 (256Mb, AGP) is most likely fried, all the colours are messed up in monitor.

Did you update the BIOS with Aflash.exe and using the BIOS updates from Asus' site?

EDIT: Apparently you should NOT use the Asus BIOS files for this board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O1kMZWbuhA