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Smokeyone

I am putting together a new system with amd64 3000. I almost can guess
the answer is no but will win98 work with this.
Also I would appreciate any advice on the best hard drives, have been
trying to find reviews but no luck so far.

Thanks

Smokeyone
 
Smokeyone said:
I am putting together a new system with amd64 3000. I almost can guess
the answer is no but will win98 work with this.
Also I would appreciate any advice on the best hard drives, have been
trying to find reviews but no luck so far.
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Yes it will. REmember there'll probably be no drivers though for the
motherboard chipset and the 512MB limit.
 
If you are building a powerhouse, why hamper it with an old operating
system? Will it work with W98? Why wouldn't it?

For hard drives, I use Western Digital. I've built dozens of computers over
the past 10 years, put WD hard drives in all of them, and have experienced
only one failure (on a 7 year old drive).
 
There is no 512MB limit.
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Oh for **** sake...I was pointing it out so he'd remember to put the
fix in the system.ini file so he wasn't left wondering why it kept
bluescreening.

You can go climb back under your rock now.
 
Smokeyone said:
I am putting together a new system with amd64 3000. I almost can guess
the answer is no but will win98 work with this.
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It will, but there will be no support from your manufacturer. Get XP
MCE2005, or as an absolute minimum 2000-SP4
Also I would appreciate any advice on the best hard drives, have been
trying to find reviews but no luck so far.
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Maxtor have treated me well

hamman
 
Check the mainboard maker's web site.

I have an Asus A8V mainboard (Socket 939), and it has all sorts of drivers
for Win98SE. Win98 Gold may be problematic; if memory serves, SE was
required if you needed to use WDM drivers.

If you insist on using Win98, and don't have SE, perhaps you can turn up an
install CD or the upgrade CD. (I saw a copy of the Gold-to-SE upgrade CD at
a computer show a few weeks ago, for 20 US$. There was even a slight chance
that it wasn't a pirate copy.)

I've been running XP for about two years, and recommend it over Win98. If
you don't need to boot in a real DOS mode, XP may be a worthwhile upgrade.

As for hard disk reviews, a central source is www.storagereview.com. I'm not
competent to judge their expertise, but their database is huge.

I've had good luck with Western Digital drives. I once had a Maxtor drive
that didn't work with an HPT366 IDE controller on a Soyo 6BA+IV mainboard,
but that probably says more about the Highpoint controller than the Maxtor
drive. Seagate now offers the longest warranties in the market (5 years,
instead of 1 or 3), and I believe that they were first to market with drives
that natively supported SATA. I have an IBM (now Hitachi) 60 GB Deskstar
drive in my desktop PC at work, and it seems to be fast, quiet, and
reliable.

My own drives at the moment are a pair of WD1600JD (SATA) in Raid 0. I
haven't been using them long enough to demonstrate reliability (or the lack
of it), but they're reasonably quiet.

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
 
Conor said:
Oh for **** sake...I was pointing it out so he'd remember to put the
fix in the system.ini file so he wasn't left wondering why it kept
bluescreening.
Click to expand...

He's also going to need the 2.2 gig patch.
 
Papa said:
If you are building a powerhouse, why hamper it with an old operating
system? Will it work with W98? Why wouldn't it?

For hard drives, I use Western Digital. I've built dozens of computers over
the past 10 years, put WD hard drives in all of them, and have experienced
only one failure (on a 7 year old drive).
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Thanks for the advice. The reason I would like to use win98 is to
avoid buying the latest windows because I am hoping to use it just as
a back up with linux as the main op. Which western digital as a
suggestion please.

Thanks
Smokeyone
 
I am putting together a new system with amd64 3000. I almost can guess
the answer is no but will win98 work with this.
Also I would appreciate any advice on the best hard drives, have been
trying to find reviews but no luck so far.

Thanks

Smokeyone
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You can download the WinXP 64 bit beta for free, expires for 360 days.
If you don't have broadband, MS will send you a CD for a nominal charge.
Poke around on their website, you'll find it.

Hard drives, I like Seagate Barracudas, but they're all good...
except IBM Deathstars.

feroce
 
: Conor wrote:
:
:: In article <[email protected]>, JS
:: says...
::
::: :::
:::
:::: Yes it will. REmember there'll probably be no drivers though for
:::: the motherboard chipset and the 512MB limit.
::::
:::
::: There is no 512MB limit.
:::
::
:: Oh for **** sake...I was pointing it out so he'd remember to put
:: the fix in the system.ini file so he wasn't left wondering why it
:: kept bluescreening.
:
: He's also going to need the 2.2 gig patch.

Huh? What the Sam Hill is the "2.2 gig patch"?

J.
 
Bob Knowlden said:
Check the mainboard maker's web site.

I have an Asus A8V mainboard (Socket 939), and it has all sorts of drivers
for Win98SE. Win98 Gold may be problematic; if memory serves, SE was
required if you needed to use WDM drivers.

If you insist on using Win98, and don't have SE, perhaps you can turn up an
install CD or the upgrade CD. (I saw a copy of the Gold-to-SE upgrade CD at
a computer show a few weeks ago, for 20 US$. There was even a slight chance
that it wasn't a pirate copy.)

I've been running XP for about two years, and recommend it over Win98. If
you don't need to boot in a real DOS mode, XP may be a worthwhile upgrade.

As for hard disk reviews, a central source is www.storagereview.com. I'm not
competent to judge their expertise, but their database is huge.

I've had good luck with Western Digital drives. I once had a Maxtor drive
that didn't work with an HPT366 IDE controller on a Soyo 6BA+IV mainboard,
but that probably says more about the Highpoint controller than the Maxtor
drive. Seagate now offers the longest warranties in the market (5 years,
instead of 1 or 3), and I believe that they were first to market with drives
that natively supported SATA. I have an IBM (now Hitachi) 60 GB Deskstar
drive in my desktop PC at work, and it seems to be fast, quiet, and
reliable.

My own drives at the moment are a pair of WD1600JD (SATA) in Raid 0. I
haven't been using them long enough to demonstrate reliability (or the lack
of it), but they're reasonably quiet.

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
Click to expand...

Thanks everyone for the tips
Smokeyone
 
Why 2 operating systems? If you like Linux, just use it. A second OS just
bogs down the PC. Not only that, a second OS as a backup guarantees nothing
in the way of protection. Backing up to external media does.

Regarding WD hard drives, I prefer the internal ones with the 8 MB cache,
and with a capacity of at least 80 GB.
 
jack said:
: Conor wrote:
:
:: In article <[email protected]>, JS
:: says...
::
::: :::
:::
:::: Yes it will. REmember there'll probably be no drivers though for
:::: the motherboard chipset and the 512MB limit.
::::
:::
::: There is no 512MB limit.
:::
::
:: Oh for **** sake...I was pointing it out so he'd remember to put
:: the fix in the system.ini file so he wasn't left wondering why it
:: kept bluescreening.
:
: He's also going to need the 2.2 gig patch.

Huh? What the Sam Hill is the "2.2 gig patch"?

J.
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Windows Protection Error in NDIS with a CPU That Is Faster Than 2.1 GHz

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312108
 
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