jakethompson1 wrote on 2020-08-07, 00:26:
Kind of the same issue people are facing with all sorts of stuff requiring SSE2 now vs. their Pentium III and Athlon XP machines.
Even the socket 939 Athlon 64s are hitting a wall at Windows 8.1. They don't support the "CMPXCHG16b" instruction and either crash/reboot when starting the install (my experience) or report "You can't install Windows 8.1 because your processor doesn't support CompareExchange128." (according to The Internet)
chublord wrote on 2020-08-07, 01:49:
Thanks for the replies! Guess Windows 2000 is the latest and greatest for this machine.
I do have Win2000 SP4 running on it already. Nice little OS and surprisingly usable even on a 486.
That's cool. I will have to try that. If everything works I would be able to get my USB wifi adapter (that surprisingly enough had Win2k drivers and utilities) working on a 486, that would be very useful.
Did you have to do anything special to get it running?
Am486 DX4 120MHz, no L2, 16MB, Tseng ET4000/W32 1MB VLB, ESS ES1869 /// 5x86 133MHz, 256kb L2, 64MB, S3 Virge/DX 4MB PCI, SB16 + Yucatan FX, PicoGUS /// Pentium III 1GHz, 512MB, Asus V7700 64MB AGP, SB Live!