For DOS you're best off with ISA sound cards, and that motherboard doesn't have an ISA slot. If the caps are good it's a fine Win98 platform though. If they haven't already been replaced assume you will need to though...

Also, you're referring to "ess" 1370 / 1371. That's not correct, those are Ensoniq (later Creative) cards, not ESS, whose Solo-1 is one of the more DOS-compatible PCI sound chips out there. If you really want to do DOS on this thing, I'd recommend a card with ESS Solo chip.

If it's pure DOS (such as 6.22 or older), there's no control of the cpu speed, so it runs full blast and could overheat. My Celeron machines get that problem with DOS and shut down after about half an hour, with the power light blinking red.

But if you use Windows (98SE is fine), there will be no issue.

Robbbert wrote on 2026-05-31, 13:04:

If it's pure DOS (such as 6.22 or older), there's no control of the cpu speed, so it runs full blast and could overheat. My Celeron machines get that problem with DOS and shut down after about half an hour, with the power light blinking red.

But if you use Windows (98SE is fine), there will be no issue.

Hi,

MS-DOS 6.0 or later(Not all versions, but depending on your luck it might) came with this utility that can be used in the CONFIG.SYS:https://www.easydos.com/power.html
This can help with overheating issues, however as it is DOS and programs doesn't expect this to be running in the background this will make some software fail, however if your computer regularly shutdown because of overheating it might still be better to lose some compatibility instead of being annoyed by an every half-hour shutdown.

Also note that this utility came out a long time before the AMD processors mentioned, so it might not do the performance management properly on these newer systems as it uses APM instead of the more modern ACPI, might worth a try however.

EDIT: Also note the post below me by Shponglefan, running a Celeron even at 100% shouldn't result in overheating in 30 minutes, almost all Celerons are easy to keep cool even at 100% power, the only exception is some of the Prescott core P4 Celerons, those run hot for a Celeron, but even these are manageable with proper cooling.

Robbbert wrote on 2026-05-31, 13:04:

If it's pure DOS (such as 6.22 or older), there's no control of the cpu speed, so it runs full blast and could overheat. My Celeron machines get that problem with DOS and shut down after about half an hour, with the power light blinking red.

If your CPU is consistently overheating, that sounds like inadequate cooling. It shouldn't do that even running pure DOS. And especially not for a Celeron processor which tend to consume less power than their regular Pentium counterparts.

dionb wrote on 2026-05-31, 11:50:

For DOS you're best off with ISA sound cards, and that motherboard doesn't have an ISA slot. If the caps are good it's a fine Win98 platform though. If they haven't already been replaced assume you will need to though...

Also, you're referring to "ess" 1370 / 1371. That's not correct, those are Ensoniq (later Creative) cards, not ESS, whose Solo-1 is one of the more DOS-compatible PCI sound chips out there. If you really want to do DOS on this thing, I'd recommend a card with ESS Solo chip.

Thanks and you are right, made a typo/confusion there should be the SB ES1371 which while not perfect is a better choice for PCI / DOS (the 1370 is better). Had a look earlier while searching initially for ESS Solo but only found quitte expensive ones (this confused my post here), but will search on, not really looking for an ISA board i'm trying to slim my collection to a couple dedicated rigs where this is the first to be completed for that purpose.

Robbbert wrote on 2026-05-31, 13:04:

If it's pure DOS (such as 6.22 or older), there's no control of the cpu speed, so it runs full blast and could overheat. My Celeron machines get that problem with DOS and shut down after about half an hour, with the power light blinking red.

But if you use Windows (98SE is fine), there will be no issue.

Did you use CpuSpd to try and clock lower? Is your cooling adequate? I still need to do all testing myself hope it goes well.