So I painstakingly manually removed every single device from the device manager, even the ones for the system. I went into safe mode, accessed the device manager and, uh oh, everything from the Dell was left over. Much to my surprise, windows installed and booted with no issues, the first reboot however hung up.
#ABANDONWARE FOR WINDOWS 98 INSTALL#The install went without too much trouble, except that, unbeknownst to me, it simply updated the failed install from the Dell with many issues. #ABANDONWARE FOR WINDOWS 98 WINDOWS 10#I had no issues burning the ISO as Windows 10 makes this pretty (Stupid) simple compared to Windows of the dark ages, (I'm looking at you, Vista, I know your true name).Īnyhow, now that I had the parts sorted and laying out across a table, and the parts being the aforementioned MSI motherboard, A 2.8GHZ Pentium 4 with HT, 512MB of DDR, a 40GB Western Digital WD400, a 48x Samsung CD-ROM drive (Dell OEM), a nVidia FX500 Quadro (Dell OEM), a Dell power supply, and an old 15 inch view sonic LCD panel I set out to install windows. Considering Windows 98 SE abandonware, I sought out finding a proper ISO, and succeeded. So I rummaged around some more and found a blank "Optimum" branded CD-R that I'm pretty sure dates back to the mid 2000's. So, backtracking a little again, my first attempt to install Windows 98 SE on the Dell was by way of USB, it however only saw the USB drive and could not see internal drives. To my surprise, and amusement, the BIOS settings in the MSI motherboard allow me to not only disable ACPI functions, but also enable USB legacy mode forcing the USB ports to 1.1 (Which was handy later on because Windows 98 doesn't like the controller operating in 2.0 even though Win98 SE supports USB 2.0), and it also allowed me to disable the usual onboard devices I would not be using, such as LAN, SATA, and the floppy controller (Surprisingly I didn't need a floppy drive, which is good 'cause while I have floppy disks up to my eyeballs still, I don't have a single working drive). So, I decided to abandon the Dell and began rummaging around, I dug up an old Socket 478 MSI 661FM2-LSR, I robbed the 2.8GHz Pentium 4 from another Dell, I wanted to use an older 1.6 P4 but that CPU is very dead. I quickly learned that Windows 98 SE does not play well with ACPI BIOS', and this motherboard lacked features to disable the ACPI functions. The first boot also went the same, however after that I was plagued with video card errors, pertaining to resource allocation mostly. The install seemed to go well, though slowly. So I set to it, my first choice for a Windows 98 system was a Dell Precision 360, 2.8GHz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading, 512MB DDR RAM, 128MB nVidia Quadro FX500, 40GB WD HDD. With all of this hardware laying around, none of it even powerful enough to really open a modern internet browser and check YouTube, I started to wonder "What on earth CAN I run with this stuff?". #ABANDONWARE FOR WINDOWS 98 PC#So I'll back up a little and say, first off, I've got old computers stacked around as spares because my father uses the "MagicJack" phone service, and every few years the system rigged up (Usually something close to 20 years old) decides to die, so I dig out another garbage PC from eons past and force it into service as a new host for the telephone. There is a madness to my method, wait, was it the other way around? If you don't understand my logic (or lack thereof) by the end of this post, you may never understand it. Also, this post will serve as my "Hello, here I am!" post. However, the system I built it on isn't what you'd normally expect to see running Windows 98. Several reasons really, nostalgia being the foremost.
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