Yes too new. nVidia never released nf4 win9x drivers, just win2k/xp and up afaik. Have you tried disabling onboard video and use a good PCI vid card ?

Rlowes tools on archive.org might help

Horun wrote on 2025-03-22, 22:33:

Yes too new. nVidia never released nf4 win9x drivers, just win2k/xp and up afaik. Have you tried disabling onboard video and use a good PCI vid card ?

They did have graphics support, on another system with the same chipset (but 6150LE instead of SE), I was able to get 98 working fine. Vintage video cards are impossible to get where I am, and I no longer have that other system.

myne wrote on 2025-03-23, 00:24:

Rlowes tools on archive.org might help

Which tools specifically? Iirc, rlowes had a lot of tools for 9x.

Probably having issues due to the 1GB RAM.

98se by default only supports 512mb, this cause Windows Protection Errors, and other weird things.

PATCHMEM from Rudolph R. Loews archive should do it.
https://www.philscomputerlab.com/rudolph-r-loew-patches.html

Matchstick wrote on 2025-03-23, 06:55:

Probably having issues due to the 1GB RAM.

98se by default only supports 512mb, this cause Windows Protection Errors, and other weird things.

^ This.

Also, if this was my system, I would not put Win9x on it - it'd just be a waste of a dual core CPU.
Moreover, I really dislike the nVidia 6150 chipsets, as they are extremely failure-prone. Actually, whichever OS you end up using on it, make sure to put a small fan on the chipset heatsink, or that system won't last long. The worst part is when these start half-dying but occasionally still working "fine". I have two systems like that: one works OK for the most part, minus the LAN port being dead *most* of the time and occasionally the system refusing to boot at all. The other one was dead when I found it. Gave it a reflow and brought it back to life. Then over time, the wireless died.

I have same nForce 430 chipsets with Athlon II X2, the integrated display is 7025 (almost same to 6150) but failed win9x, even force install 6150 not working.

momaka wrote on 2025-03-23, 14:28:

Moreover, I really dislike the nVidia 6150 chipsets, as they are extremely failure-prone.

Yeah, NVIDIA hasn't had much luck with single-chip chipsets, since the nForce 3
I have a dual-chip 6100, and it's still going strong.

Lost-Entrepreneur439 wrote on 2025-03-22, 20:35:

I've been trying to get Windows 98SE working on it, but I can't get it to work

As far as I knew (I use Windows 2000), the Windows 98 drivers are quite functional for this chipset (not for video part).
If you have an available PCI-e 16x, then an external video card will be fine.
For example, FX5950 PCX or Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition.

PS.Just kidding.
X600 will be very good and sufficient.

I have found an old Olidata PC from my ex office while we were moving things to the new one, i asked if i could bring it home and they said no problem as is very old. I couldn't opened it at the moment, i saw the labels on it saying AMD Sempron and XP and i immediately wanted it for my retro experiments. Turned out is a Sempron Socket 939 Palermo Core, the mobo is an ASUS A8N-VM PSG or something probably from 2006 (i assumed from the BIOS date in CPU-Z, there is no way to update it because good luck with OEM locked mobos) which is already too new for 98, it is surely OEM BIOS locked as there's no way to overclock it but actually don't care at all to OC, it have basic BIOS options like disable IGP memory, IRQ reserved and some other low options. Fact is this mobo have as well an Nvidia chip, i wrote the name on GPT and he said is a nForce 4 430 Chip with the 6150 IGP. I decided to upgrade it with an Athlon 64 3800+ Venice core, add 2GB DDR400 and a Radeon X800 GTO Pci-Express and I installed Windows 98 SE QuickInstall 2026 edition, and by far it runs very well. It have some issues with the SoundBlaster LIVE! PCI in some games (Wolf3D for example) and have an "!" under system managment, but besides this idk if can help or are cases, Nforce 430 despite is imho shitty it can run 98 SE.

I have an old e-machines SFF machine that is this vintage.

I had wanted to do horrible nt4 experiments with it, but nvidia never released ICD drivers for geforce 6 series IGPs.

There's no end to options for boring XP machines. I wanted a sleeper NT4 box.

It was not to be.