alimac81 wrote on 2023-05-18, 07:29:

Hello, I'm new on here and have just started building my first old build pc to run win 98 se and have run into inevitable driver […]
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Hello, I'm new on here and have just started building my first old build pc to run win 98 se and have run into inevitable driver issues, system spec:

Asus p5s800-vm/s
Pentium 4
Geforce 2 ti 64mb pro
1gb ram (this much ram didn't seem to cause issues)
120gb HDD
Win98se

So I installed windows 98 fine first time, ran with no issues, until I installed drivers.
Geforce drivers didn't run right, but didn't crash the system. Asus drivers caused serious issues, blue screen, boot problems.

Does anyone have a good link for trusted drivers? Or is my motherboard the issues as in not compatible with win 98?

Limit you RAM to 512MB. Burnmem will help)))
“ this much ram didn't seem to cause issues” 😉

What version of directX you are using ? Info about version of drivers would be useful too

Yeap!
Install Win98, install chipset drivers, install DirectX 8+
All other you can install later

Ok so 512mb ram will need to be installed,
I installed direct x 7
Nvidia 9x 23.11 display drivers
Realtek AC 97 ALC655 audio
That's as far as I got, it had issues after audio install, started asking for drivers for audio constantly at startup then blue screened.

I have reformatted the hard disk and will attempt another install when I get the chance. When I tried reinstalling windows without format it kept old files and this caused problems.

alimac81 wrote on 2023-05-18, 08:53:

Ok so 512mb ram will need to be installed, I installed direct x 7 Nvidia 9x 23.11 display drivers Realtek AC 97 ALC655 audio T […]
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Ok so 512mb ram will need to be installed,
I installed direct x 7
Nvidia 9x 23.11 display drivers
Realtek AC 97 ALC655 audio
That's as far as I got, it had issues after audio install, started asking for drivers for audio constantly at startup then blue screened.

I have reformatted the hard disk and will attempt another install when I get the chance. When I tried reinstalling windows without format it kept old files and this caused problems.

You can limit your RAM to 512MB with BURNMEM

Well seems like audio card is issue .So if problem keep appearing after fresh win install you could try disable audio in bios . Also you could try try resolve resources conflict or use another card

Thankyou for your feedback, good ideas. Apologies babasha for missing your suggestion of burnmem, will have a look into it after I've reinstalled windows.

Babasha wrote on 2023-05-18, 10:35:

You can limit your RAM to 512MB with BURNMEM

On my systems with more than 512MB it seemed like they got more and more unstable with every driver I installed.

I now just use PATCHMEM from R.Loew, which makes 98SE rock-solid.

https://archive.org/details/PATCHMEM