S775 motherboard with Windows '98 support required.

JohnnyG · 9 Nov 2007 at 15:10

I need a socket 775 motherboard with onboard graphics and DDRII but the fun part is that it must have Win98 support in the form of drivers etc.
It's a nightmare sourcing one as you can imagine and I'm running out of ideas as to which models would still be available, the Abit IP-95 is the sort of thing I need but can't get one anywhere.
So can anyone think of any models that might still be around?
Cheers

G_Wizz · 9 Nov 2007 at 22:21

Asrock 775I65G

Probably only one that supports win 98, but its DDR1. Supports core2 and Quad and has onboard graphics. I may be wrong but dont think you will find a DDR2 board that supports win98 although you might get it to work after a fashion. I have win98 running on an Asrock Conroe865PE with an E4300, its basically the same board as the 775I65G but without the onboard graphics.

Tute · 10 Nov 2007 at 10:14

There's this one on clearance, however it's DDR. From a quick look on Abit's site it appears there are Win98 drivers for it. (not sure about ones for RAID).

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-101-AB&groupid=595&catid=597&subcat=643

JohnnyG · 10 Nov 2007 at 11:53

Thanks lads, I'll try the Abit one from OcUK, the customer will just have to fork out a bit more for some new memory

Tute · 10 Nov 2007 at 15:06

JohnnyG said:
Thanks lads, I'll try the Abit one from OcUK, the customer will just have to fork out a bit more for some new memory

It's not like memory is expensive these days anyway!

Aurhinius · 10 Nov 2007 at 17:20

why in the name of all that is holy would someone want to run windows 98?

Snapshot · 10 Nov 2007 at 20:54

Presumably there's an application that won't run on anything later?

Does W98 need to be run native on the PC? Would it work under VMWare on an XP PC?

Tute · 11 Nov 2007 at 11:29

Aurhinius said:
why in the name of all that is holy would someone want to run windows 98?

Time warp?

Aurhinius · 11 Nov 2007 at 14:22

just run whatever win98 app it is on virtual pc and get a decent os

Justintime · 11 Nov 2007 at 16:38

er.. would'nt all extra cores in Dual and quad cpus and HT in PIV cpus just be ignored by win98?

JohnnyG · 11 Nov 2007 at 19:24

My 'customer' (a relative actually) owns a Glazing company and their MIS program (Estimation through to Invoicing) is DOS based and is pretty good in all reality, there is a 'Windows' version available but it's crap and flaky.
They need a new client on their network and I'm trying to do it as cheap as possible using stuff knocking about.
I've mentioned using VMWare before but that's way over their heads