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Need input on Win98 Athlon 64/XP system

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First post, by buckeye

Posted on 2019-05-01, 16:29

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Since I'm not having any luck finding "affordable" parts for a tualatin based system thought I'd try my hand at building an
Athlon based one. Could be wrong but would the Athlon XP be better than the 64 flavor due to temp issues?

I'd be nice if anyone has an Athlon system to list their setup to give me an example to go by. Any advice on the problems
you encountered doing such a build would great too. This build will be for Win98SE not WinXP.

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Asus V7700 GF2 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
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Reply 1 of 4, by swaaye

Posted on 2019-05-01, 17:04

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Helpful thread
https://msfn.org/board/topic/97588-modern-mot … ssion/#comments

I think for A64 you will be best off with a board with a VIA chipset. NForce3 is quirky with anything other than XP. SATA can also complicate matters so ideally stick to PATA. Win98 also has a 128GB limitation. And ≤ 512MB RAM is also ideal. There are patches for these limitations if you feel like getting into that.
Ex https://msfn.org/board/topic/78592-enable48bi … -137gb-barrier/ (have not tried myself)

The only reason I would consider Athlon XP is if you want a board with 3.3v AGP support for pre-4x AGP cards.

Also, note that Voodoo2 needs special drivers to work with Athlon CPUs. Voodoo1 probably won't work.

Reply 2 of 4, by quicknick

Posted on 2019-05-01, 22:23

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swaaye wrote:
Also, note that Voodoo2 needs special drivers to work with Athlon CPUs. Voodoo1 probably won't work.

Is this also true with the original Slot A Athlons? That would explain the struggles I went through while trying my Voodoo2 cards on a FIC SD11+A650 setup. As soon as I installed drivers, windows would lock up on boot.

Reply 3 of 4, by swaaye

Posted on 2019-05-01, 23:10

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quicknick wrote:
swaaye wrote:
Also, note that Voodoo2 needs special drivers to work with Athlon CPUs. Voodoo1 probably won't work.

Is this also true with the original Slot A Athlons? That would explain the struggles I went through while trying my Voodoo2 cards on a FIC SD11+A650 setup. As soon as I installed drivers, windows would lock up on boot.

I think I first ran into it with a Slot A machine. My guess would be it happens with any K7 CPU and possibly K8 too. I don't remember all the combinations of hardware I've tried Voodoo2 with.

Over here there is a Win9x driver pack for Athlons that works.
http://falconfly.vogonswiki.com/voodoo2.html

Reply 4 of 4, by quicknick

Posted on 2019-05-01, 23:28

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This is great, thanks. Never heard of this problem before, will try those drivers next time I feel like playing with the Voodoo(s).

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