Hopefully this is the right forum for my post...
I had to upgrade my motherboard, and after reading ragnargd's terrific post on AM3+ chipset's I bought Asrock 880GM-LE (880g/sb710) with AMD II X2 250/DDR3 1066. I was especially interested in this board because of legacy ports, I needed a parallel port for my personal "HP laserjet 4 plus still alive campaign" (1993/duplex!). Except for onboard video/sound and ACPI/APM this board seems to be compatible with win98SE.
Some details you may like:
- Onboard Sata in ide-mode, only ports 5 and 6 are working, just as ragnargd described. Only compatible with ESDI_506 after setup /p i
- USB1-drivers from win98se-cd are already working. USB2 works great with NUSB (even with NUSB 3.6)
- Onboard LAN works okay with real mode driver RTGND.DOS (not with RTMND.DOS)
- Geforce 6700 XL (PCI-E) works great, shutdown problems (despite use of shutdownpatcher) ceased away after forcing installation of 77.72 driver (monitor resolution 1920x1200)
- To avoid out of memory errors go for "DEVICE=HIMEMX /MAX=1048576" instead of HIMEM.SYS in CONFIG.SYS
- When using real mode driver rtgnd.dos set "MaxPhysPage=38DFF" in SYSTEM.INI
- Asrock lists only 880GM-LE/FX, with Google you can find the old 880GM-LE pages