Building The Ultimate Windows 98 PC - In 2023!
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 Published On Jan 20, 2023

Hey 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

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