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I've installed 98SE fine on a similar Gigabyte motherboard I once had (GA-EP45-DS3L). Forget the Intel Chipset drivers, they are not needed. Try disabling all devices in BIOS that you will not use - LAN, built-in audio, etc. Try replacing the HIMEM.SYS with HIMEMX.EXE (put DEVICE=C:\HIMEMX.EXE in config.sys), you can download it here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/himemx/ Are you using IDE compatibility/legacy mode or the AHCI mode? It's recommended to use the AHCI mode and then install the AHCI driver for full 32-bit disk access and avoid the built-in IDE driver altogether: https://archive.org/details/ahci_win9x There's also a TRIM utility, so that installing Windows 98SE on a SSD using AHCI mode is safe: http://dottoss.com/files/software/rloew/TRIM.ZIP Don't use NUSB36, use the older, better version 3.3 from here: http://www.mdgx.com/spx/NUSB.EXE Try all possible PCI slots for the sound card if you still encounter problems, one might work better than the other. Installing the Unofficial Service Pack (Main Updates) might help with the shutdown problems with the NVIDIA drivers: http://www.htasoft.com/u98sesp/ As for the fake floppy drive, I think I had the same issue, I just ignored it, couldn't do anything about it.

@ruthan Try these drivers, they have the same hardware ID in the INF as the one you posted: http://www.sct181.com/ibkkin/driver/z_98/audio_98_only/pci64.exe

Quadro FX 5500 should work, it is from what I see, the same card as the 7900 GTX, just with a different BIOS and more VRAM. I have a 7900 GTX and it works fine on 98SE. I don't think the extra VRAM would be actually usable on 98SE but could be an interesting alternative in case you can find the Quadro cheaper than the 7900 GTX. I would suggest using the rloew NVIDIA patches no matter what though.

I don't...has it really been over 6 years :O I think I got them from DriverGuide, try looking here: https://members.driverguide.com/driver_search.php?q=es1370 DriverGuide is no longer a crap website anymore, they removed the forced download of their crapware downloader, it's all direct links now, yay!

Umm...try using the AHCI mode, and not IDE/Legacy/Compatibility for the connected SSD. With the AHCI driver being publicly available, using compatibility mode is not required anymore: https://archive.org/details/ahci_win9x XMGR.SYS might fix things, I've never really used it, HIMEMX.EXE always solved everything for me, but I've seen a few times where XMGR worked better than HIMEMX. Can you try a different GPU (even with the generic vga.sys/VBEMP driver?)

GeForce 8+ series (Tesla architecture and newer) will NEVER work on 98SE! The INF in the unofficial 82.69 driver has those device IDs, but no one actually tested them back then. Who accepted this? Very misleading and causes confusion (also the INF is much larger than it needs to be, 98SE has a 64KB INF file limit) As for the 512MB VRAM cards, with the NVIDIA Patch from rloew now publicly available: https://archive.org/details/PTCHNVSZ they should not be an issue any more, especially when you do the BIOS mod that the patch provides. As for the pass-through, I don't have any experience with this, maybe QEMU/KVM using virt-manager (under Arch for example) would work better than Unraid (unless it's the same thing)?

Better links for KernelEx and 7-Zip: http://www.tmeeco.eu/9X4EVER/GOODIES/KernelEx-4.5.2.exe http://sourceforge.mirrorservice.org/s/se/sevenzip/7-Zip/9.20/7z920.exe

Umm...NUSB works fine: http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm#NUS

I have a USB 2.0 PCI-E x1 card (it has no Molex power connector, it uses a PCI NEC USB 2.0 chip and a PLX PCI to PCI-E bridge chip not a Moschip). It has problems and does not work together with the AHCI driver or the 82.69 driver for whatever reason. Your mileage with such cards might therefore vary, maybe the model with Molex power connector works better, I don't know. I've only tried a USB Sound Card together with the USB 2.0 PCI-E x1 card on 98SE, it worked well.

Yep, there are no drivers for built-in HD Audio or WiFi. I think I've tried the DOS NDIS2 driver for the built-in LAN but can't say for sure, this is what you can try though.

Have you tried setting (via the jumpers) the FSB to 133MHz? (leave PCI to 33.3) Manual for reference (page 20) https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock370/440bx/cubx-e/cubxle-100.pdf

Windows 98SE worked fine on my ThinkPad X230 (which is Ivy Bridge based). I had to disable USB BIOS Option (basically USB booting) to make the boot up faster for some reason though. HIMEMX/AHCI driver (not the compatibility mode)/VBEMP worked fine.

It was some time ago so I do not remember all the details well. BIOS settings - umm....don't think I've touched on anything (apart from the obvious thing of enabling CSM). I did flash the latest UEFI though at that time. No USB since everything is tied to the USB 3.0 controller. You can either use a PCI-E x1 USB 2.0 card (but mine causes problems with NVIDIA 82.69 and the AHCI drivers so it's not reliable), or hope that the UEFI has a PS/2 compatibility mode, which it did I think. No networking since the Realtek's chip was a newer revistion not supported by the 98SE driver...I think I've tried the NDIS2 driver with no luck. 7900 GTX did not work (black screen, probably due to the PCI-E x1 USB 2.0 card or the motherboard itself. The friend pulled up a different (much slower) 7000 series GPU and it worked fine (even with dual monitors). I think I had the AHCI driver by that point, but either way, using the AHCI driver fixes all problems with non-existing IDE mode. Windows 98SE will first boot with the default 16-bit disk access compatibility mode without any mode. Then you install the AHCI driver (one of the PCI Card unknown devices) and you get full 32-bit Disk Access. As for installing 98SE on modern systems (or any system that can into USB booting actually) - I'm using Rufus to make a CSM MS-DOS (not FreeDOS!) bootable flash drive, then copy 98SE setup files and FDISK/FORMAT from here (no-ramdrive): https://www.allbootdisks.com/disk_contents/download/me.html Then I boot from the flash drive and use the FDISK with the /ACTOK switch to make it possible to set the hard drive (which is the second drive in FDISK, the first one is the flash drive) as active. After setting the partition size with the % symbol (more reliable than typing exact size, and makes it easier to work with bigger than 127GB hard drives), I FORMAT it, and copy (manually) the system files (command.com, io.sys, himemx.exe, 98se setup files, other patches, etc.) to the hard drive. Then I boot from the hard drive and proceed with the installation as normal. The FDISK/FORMAT will take a LONG time depending on the size of the hard drive, but it has been the most reliable way of installing for me. Best bet is to stick to 128GB SSD's No sound, except for using a USB Sound Card, but my PCI-E x1 USB 2.0 card causes problems Don't think we've tried a PCI sound card (the motherboard has a PCI port, that's why the friend chose it) As for stability, I think there were only those random freezes I can't figure out. Sometimes system works for hours, sometimes it will freeze after a minute. With that 7000 series GPU he had (dunno the model, maybe a 7600 GT) I had success installing the 82.69 drivers, so games worked fine.

I've successfully ran Win98SE on a friend's PC with Ryzen CPU (Ryzen 5 1600 IIRC) a long time ago. It was on an ASUS PRIME B350-PLUS motherboard. Same deal as with any other modern motherboard - HIMEMX is all you need I do not recall doing anything fancier than that. With the now publicly available RAM patch and the AHCI driver it is even easier.

It seems your WiFi card is too old to support WPA2 or 802.11g networks. It will only work with networks that are 802.11b and WEP/no-security only. http://ftp.tekwind.co.jp/pub/asustw/beta/p4bg-vm/Lan/WIRELESS/GUIDES/Adapter/2011B/intro.htm

nForce chipsets do not support DOS drivers for PCI soundcards that have them correctly. lf you want DOS sound, don't bother with nForce, Any Intel chipset that is i865 or older will be fine.

Some programs/games you can try: 3DMark2001 SE: https://benchmarks.ul.com/downloads/3dmark2001.exe 3DMark03 (the 350 version, not the latest 360 version): https://www.4players.de/4players.php/download_info/Downloads/download/7666/3DMark03/Full_Install_v350.html Need for Speed: Underground Demo: https://www.gamepressure.com/download.asp?ID=3950 Far Cry Demo: https://dpcdn-s14.pl/po_godzinach/farcry_demo.exe

@~♥Aiko♥Chan♥~ I still find it dubious that the driver actually works fully, have you tried any 3D applications/games with it (Both DirectX and OpenGL)? The driver is made with the XDDM model and should have never been compatible with Win9x's unique video driver model. There are no cross-compatible video drivers between Win9x and Win2k, unlike WDM AC'97 drivers/LAN/Wi-Fi, etc. The INF does not have Win9x required lines such as: HKR,,Ver,,4.0 HKR,,DevLoader,,*vdd HKR,DEFAULT,Mode,,16,800,600 HKR,DEFAULT,drv,,NVDISP.DRV HKR,DEFAULT,drv2,,NVDISP.DRV HKR,DEFAULT,minivdd,,NVMINI.VXD HKR,DEFAULT,minivdd2,,NVMINI.VXD HKR,DEFAULT,vdd,,*vdd HKR,DEFAULT,RefreshRate,,-1 [...] HKR,"MODES\32\1024,768",,,"60,70,72,75,85,100,120,140,144,150,170,200" HKR,"MODES\32\1024,768",%M%,,"60,70,72,75,85,100,120,140,144,150,170,200" HKR,"MODES\32\1600,900",,,"60,70,72,75,85,100,120" HKR,"MODES\32\1600,900",%M%,,"60,70,72,75,85,100,120" HKR,"MODES\32\1600,1024",,,"60,70,72,75,85,100" HKR,"MODES\32\1600,1024",%M%,,"60,70,72,75,85,100" HKR,"MODES\32\1600,1200",,,"60,70,72,75,85,100" HKR,"MODES\32\1600,1200",%M%,,"60,70,72,75,85,100" HKR,"MODES\32\1920,1080",,,"60,70,72,75,85,100" HKR,"MODES\32\1920,1080",%M%,,"60,70,72,75,85,100" HKR,"MODES\32\1920,1200",,,"60,70,72,75,85,100" HKR,"MODES\32\1920,1200",%M%,,"60,70,72,75,85,100"

Can you show us the network configuration in virtual machine settings? Have you tried NAT and Bridged modes?

Try using an older version of VMware, not the latest one, like 13, 12, or 11.

WDM Audio drivers for 9x use the built-in SBEMUL.SYS driver which provides rudimental Sound Blaster emulation for DOS boxes inside Windows. It does not provide OPL2/3 support as far as I know. That's why you can only hear sound effects and not music, more discussions about SBEMUL.SYS are here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech/P1q1PCa0bag/KTCGkK3d86UJ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/audio/kernel-mode-wdm-audio-components https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=12016 If you want good DOS compatibility on Windows 98SE, the onboard C-Media audio will never give you such support. Best way is to get Sound Blaster Live/Aureal Vortex 2 PCI audio card, which have their own Sound Blaster emulation drivers. An even better way is to use an ISA Sound Blaster 16 card, although newer motherboards of course do not have the ISA slot any more. Or, as you've already tried, use VDMSound. Or...you can run DOSBox under Windows 98 although this kind of defeats the purpose

VirtualBox is NOT the right software to make a virtual Windows 98. It's one of the worst choices. If you want good experience with virtual Windows 98, try VMware Workstation Player, it's free.

Just use "/p i". There's no need to use "/p j" on Windows 98SE ever. Yep, IDE Compatibility Mode should work fine, it it doesn't then you need the SATA patch. (not the AHCI driver) You can leave the HyperThreading on, it won't do any harm for 98SE and will make XP much faster Make sure that the hard drive is less than 137GB, otherwise you need the High Capacity Disk Patch.

Can you try different USB drivers? Try the ones from the Unofficial Service Pack 3 from here: https://www.techtalk.cc/viewtopic.php?t=65

You have a 512MB video card...this might cause problems, try this patch (read the MANUAL, it's quite lengthy) https://archive.org/details/PTCHNVSZ Or, you can try a different GPU with less than 512MB of video RAM.