Search for [LOTES Slot 1/A Pentium 2/II/3/III CPU Retention Bracket/Module Set]

PARKE wrote:

Search for [LOTES Slot 1/A Pentium 2/II/3/III CPU Retention Bracket/Module Set]

Found it, thanks!

For SATA drives, recommend using something newer, due to the built-in features to maintain the longevity of the drive, here's a link to the drive that was recommended to me because it basically has everything you need, new drive, SATA to IDE adapter and mounting hardware.

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDMXLE060/

For the sound card, I do recommend one, for Windows 98 SE, the latest you could go is the Sound Blaster Audigy, although I've heard some people getting the Audigy 2 series cards to work with some fiddling with Audigy 1 drivers. If you need DOS compatibility, I'm not sure what to recommend as most DOS games had ISA sound cards that were compatible. The problem you run into with DOS games is a lot of them were set up for the Yamaha OPL2 or OPL3 chip, which modern sound cards do not have, so to get the best experience with DOS games, it's better to run an older system that had ISA card slots.

For RAM, 256MB should be fine, I've heard that you can run into issues running more than 512MB. 512MB would probably be the max, although I've heard with some fiddling around you could probably get more to work.

You could also get a PATA to SATA adapter. Those work well.

1. Actually no need fopr a SATA controller, as oeuvre said, you can just buy a IDE / SATA converter. A 5 USD max. solution for you 🤣
2. During that times, onboard sound was not mature enough, so almost always introduced issues into the mix. I suggest a separate sound card. Which card you need to choose will depend on what you want to do with it and personal taste. My go to card with any W9x build is AWE 64, since I always want hasslefree DOS compatibility. If I had nothing to do with DOS, then I would probably will go with a nice version of SB Live. I'm a SB guy, though, there are other brands/models and all kinds of personal preferences around.
3. Have no idea, sorry.
4. Yes you can, but there is no need to or profit from it, for a W9x build. I have 512MB in mine, because I already have tens of memory modules in my inventory. I would not have paid for it though.

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1. Actually no need fopr a SATA controller, as oeuvre said, you can just buy a IDE / SATA converter. A 5 USD max. solution for y […]
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1. Actually no need fopr a SATA controller, as oeuvre said, you can just buy a IDE / SATA converter. A 5 USD max. solution for you 🤣
2. During that times, onboard sound was not mature enough, so almost always introduced issues into the mix. I suggest a separate sound card. Which card you need to choose will depend on what you want to do with it and personal taste. My go to card with any W9x build is AWE 64, since I always want hasslefree DOS compatibility. If I had nothing to do with DOS, then I would probably will go with a nice version of SB Live. I'm a SB guy, though, there are other brands/models and all kinds of personal preferences around.
3. Have no idea, sorry.
4. Yes you can, but there is no need to or profit from it, for a W9x build. I have 512MB in mine, because I already have tens of memory modules in my inventory. I would not have paid for it though.

1. I went ahead and ordered both a IDE/SATA adapter and a SYBA PCI 2 Port SATA controller.
2. When I started building PCs in college back in the early 90s, I always went with SB cards as well. I tried a few off brands (like Turtle Beach) just to see how they performed but always went back to a discrete SB. Since I built this old PC for my mom back in 2004 or so, the onboard audio was good enough for her and worked with XP, so I never installed a SB. I had an AWE32 and AWE64 back in the day but I believe those are both ISA only and this MSI board only has PCI slots. Is the PCI SB Live! pretty good?
3. Parke above got me pointed in the right direction for the Slot A retention bracket.
4. I can get 2x 256MB PC133 DIMMs for about $15 so I think I'll go ahead and do it.

Thanks!

Slot A, cool! they aren't that common anymore.

Re the soundcard it's not a bad card. Also known as the Sound Blaster PCI 64.
More info here and most importantly the MB midi patch here
Ensoniq / Creative AudioPCI

Play around with it in dos but I would still add an ISA soundcard in the long run though