Building The Ultimate Windows 98 PC - In 2023!
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Жыл бұрынHey everyone, In this video I'm going to take you back many decades and I'm going to be Building what I call My Ultimate Windows 98 Computer!
Well for me it would be since What I put in this computer blows away anything I had back in the day running windows 98.
I read that getting a PCIE video card to work in Windows 98 se was near impossible. Did I get mine to work? I used a Socket 775 in this Build as a hint!
Take a Nostalgic trip with back in time and come along with me as I build my Ultimate Windows 98 PC!
Thanks for watching!
Chapter list
:46 Let’s Take a Look at The Parts For This Build!
3:28 Let’s Start Building!
5:02 Time to Mount The CPU Cooler..I Have The Worst Luck..
9:02 Will The System Boot?
10:50 Installing Windows 98 SE!
14:34 Welcome to Windows 98!
15:22 Device Manager First Look After 98 se Install. How Bad is it?
16:10 Installing Essential Drivers
17:52 Will the Geforce 6200 Drivers Work?
20:20 Let The Sound Blaster Fight Commence!
21:12 Windows 98 Intro Sound/Music
21:30 Bare Metal Backup
22:20 3d Mark 2001
24:07 Final Thoughts! Lessons Learned, Tips to Help You With Your Build.
Here's the list of boards known to be working (or mostly working with some addon hardware and tweaks) with Windows 98.
ABIT IP-95
ABIT SG 80DC
AsRock 4Core1600-Glan
Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 R2.0
ASRock 775i65G R2.0ASRock 890FX-Deluxe5
ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0
Asrock AliveDual-eSATA2
Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA
Asrock 4CoreDX90-VSTA R2.0
ASUS A8V Deluxe
ASUS A8n-E (with nForce 4 ultra chipset)
ASUS K8V-MX/S
ASUS M5A97 (Confirmed by rloew)
ASUS P4S800-MX
ASUS P5K
ASUS P5PE-VM
ASUS P5SD2-VM
BCMCOM BC875PLG
BIOSTAR P4M890M7SE
ECS 662/1066T-M2
ECS GeForce 6100SM-M
ECS K8M800-M2
ECS P4M800Pro-M2
Foxconn H55MXV (Rloew's SATA patch most likely required for correct operation, even in IDE/PATA mode)
Gigabyte 8IPE1000-G
Gigabyte G31TM-P21
Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3 Rev 3.1 (AM3+)
Gigabyte GA-8I865GME-775-RH (rev. 2.0)
Gigabyte GA-8I865PE775-G-RH
Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2L
Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2
Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R Rev 2.1
Gigabyte GA-K8A480M-9
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939
Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2HP
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L
Gigabyte GA-P31-ES3G
Gigabyte GA-P43-ES3G (Rloew's SATA patch most likely required for correct operation, even in IDE/PATA mode)
Gigabyte K8NSC-939
Intel LAD865GVIPL
JetWay J7F4K1G5S-LF
MSI 865PE Neo3-F
MSI 865PE Neo3-V
MSI 970A SLI Krait (AM3+)
MSI K8N neo
MSI K9VGM-V
MSI P31 Neo V2
MSI Z87-G41
PC-Chips P23G (v1.0)
Portwell RUBY-9719VG2AR
Soltek SL-XP865G-3IG
Soyo SY-P4I845PE Lite
Soyo SY-P4I845PE-ISA
Supermicro X5DAE
Supermicro X7DAL-E
@RememberThisTech Жыл бұрын
Here's the list of boards known to be working (or mostly working with some addon hardware and tweaks) with Windows 98.
@John-uc6gb Жыл бұрын
Cool video. I built all my computers from Win 95 to Win 11. Great fun. Yes 98 was the pain in the butt. Thank you
@Chriva Жыл бұрын
Gonna try this on a AM3 board. Highly doubt I'll get the gtx460 working since it was a pita even in xp but it could be fun. Awesome video! :)
@dannydoolhoff7657 Жыл бұрын
Windows 98SE was great!
@kickstart118 14 күн бұрын
I would love to build one! Thank you for the video.
@tagesvaterpatrick8780 Жыл бұрын
When I got myself a P200 some time ago, I installed Win 98 SE and as the Win98 Theme came up for the 1st time it felt like I was 23 again when I got my first Windows PC 🥰
@natr0n Жыл бұрын
Always enjoy your videos.
@itstheMR Жыл бұрын
This brought some good memories of W98 installs 🥰. I still can't believe W98 ran on a Core2Quad mb! Gotta be proud when manufactures are able to provide backwards compatibility with old drivers like that. My gaming PC in 96 or 97 was a Pentium Pro running at 233mhz, Adapter UW 2940, a 4GB Cheetah 10k, Monster Voodoo 3D(I can't remember the base video card), and 256MB of ram. Every game I threw at it was flying. Kinda makes you wonder how new of a motherboard can you install W98 on before it says NOPE I have zero clue what this mb is!
@arnox4554
I'm amazed the PCI-E version of that card was actually functional in 98. You should test some DOS games like The Elder Scrolls: Arena, or Raptor: Call of the Shadows.
@erroneoushyphen
Great video! Your 3dmarks result is pretty good for a Nvidia 6200 GPU. For reference my 3d Mark 2001SE result on my current machine is 16895 - this is on a Pentium 4 3Ghz (OC to 3.3) and a Radeon 9800 256Mb Pro (also OC'd, 418Mhz GPU, 351Mhz Memory). You're definitely outclassing me with CPU, but the Radeon GPU would put me back ahead there.
@DarkDragonEWA Жыл бұрын
Found a nice standard form factor industrial MB a while back that I plan to turn into a beefy 98/DOS machine. Socket 478, DDR 1, AGP, PCI, ISA, support for four floppy drives. The thing's a beast. Even managed to find an old SCSI card to go in it that has drivers for 98.
@metalworksmachineshop
Cool build. I'm doing a slot 1 P3 win95 build now. Most all my games I have won't run in 98 . And none of the doss games will work in 98.
@VicTheVicar Жыл бұрын
Sweet! I'm going to build a Bridge machine with an Intel AX440LX board and a Pentium II 300 MHz processor. I'll probably need to get Win98 installed because I want to use those USB ports for transferring files.
@paulb4uk Жыл бұрын
Nice build i did a 98 machine with a new old stock asrock motherboard and a 3.0 ghz pentium 4 the gpu is an agp ti 4200 i copied a build phils computer lab done a while ago ,it is amazing that windows 98 runs on some core2duo and quads they were and still are good cpu,s.
@ilovealbundy
Interesting build of a Windows 98 retro PC, albeit with components that didn't even exist at the time ;-) But then I would have been better off using a Gotek floppy emulator instead of the 3.5 inch drive, which is what I have in all three of my retro PCs installed and they work great. 999 disks on a 2GB USB stick, that's a strong argument ;-) I hope you don't have too much software that reacts critically to such powerful hardware (for a Windows 98 computer).
@Oshaoxin
Think of all those retro games you can play!
@RicardoGutierrez-xh1kn Жыл бұрын
I feel uncomfortable not seeing the I/O Shield lol anyway... I love this kind of videos with Windows 95/98 and XP..... Greetings from El Salvador in Central America
@laurencejohnson4106 Жыл бұрын
A neat build! 👍👍 I recall using Windows 98 SE., on a Pentium 3 Compaq desktop PC., and it worked reasonably well, but it did have some stability issues, I never played video games on it though. I use Linux Mint these days and there are many free games in it's repository, but I'm not a gamer. Obviously I enjoy watching retro builds though.
@licksludgee
I run ME on a Pentium 4 with a Radeon 9550 & Soundblaster Audigy for all of my 16bit retro needs. Things solid, ME gets such a bad rap for being unreliable, but with more modern hardware its absolutely flawless, modern PSU's that dont spike
@lordpurchase9189
I've got SATA to work under Windows 98. I don't really have a favorite OS I like most of them. I've done quite a few retro builds from RISC OS Windows 3.11 to Win95/98/2000. Windows 2000 SP4 is pretty cool, it supports dual core CPU's and more modern hardware and more RAM and it can play a higher range of games from early 90s to more modern games. I'm not a fan of XP so Windows 2000 SP4 is normally my preference for more modern hardware such as the dual core 2 machines but I love Windows 95 & 98SE as those have a lot of nostalgia for me and to a degree Windows 3.11