imai Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Hi folks,I was very pleased to find on this forum the "modern" MB that will work with Windows 98 SE. I have an old FAST AV Master capture card that will not work under XP or Vista as only drivers for W95 and W98 exist.So I bought an Asrock 4coredual sata2 R2.0 MB and installed W98SE on an IDE HD with 256 MB DDR400 memory and an AGP4x videocard. Installation was no problem but there is no USB support and I can't change the resolution (16 bits colour, 640x480).The Asrock site do not provide drivers for W98, only drivers for W2000 and more recent OS are available.What should I do to get this going ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjecina Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 (edited) You need to visit Via site:http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/Today site is having "small" problem so this link is not showing download section. From that link you must go to support and then to drivers at Via Arena, but because of site problem this has not been possible for me today.Other possibility is to take chipset drivers from other sites. I am having 2 examples:1) http://nodevice.in/driver/company/VIA/Chipset.html site is on chinese language2) http://www.nodevice.com/driver/PT880/get37366.html Officialy Asrock 4coredual sata2 MBO i having chipset VIA® PT880 Pro/PT880 Ultra. I have writen links for PT880 pro (1) and PT880 (2), but maybe this will work Edited July 8, 2009 by Rjecina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imai Posted July 8, 2009 Author Share Posted July 8, 2009 Rjecina thanks for the help. The VIA site was available and I found the Via_HyperionPro_524A, according to VIA the best suitable for W98SE and the PT880Pro chpset but ..........When I ran the setup, the installation halted with the message that it had stopped before installing all items and that the system had not been changed. I have no clue why this happenedAfter restart Windows found new hardware: Via standard host bridge (5X), PCI to ISA bridge, PCI to PCIE bridge, Ultra Vlink contrller, I/O APIC IC and PCI to PCI bridge controller. When I directed Windows to the viamach directory of Via_HyperionPro it seemed to install the drivers but I still miss AGP and USB support.In Windows hardware management there is still a yellow question mark at PCI Universal Seril Bus and my Samsung Syncmaster still runs on a standard PCI graphic adapter.What to do next ? In the HyperionPro package is no AGP driver for W98SE but I can check the manufacturer site for the videocard, the USB Root Hubs and the Universal hostcontrollers for PCI to USB are functioning correct.Can I have a malfunctioning motherboard ? Or would it be wise to reinstall W98SE and install SP3 beta ?Please advise, Best regards Imai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drugwash Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Just a shot in the dark: try to install the latest available 9x-compatible DirectX version before retrying to install the VIA AGP driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroOS Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Hi imai,Use VIA Hyperion Pro 5.21a: http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/via_hyperionpro_v521a.zipI too have discovered that more recent versions have problems installing some components on Windows 9x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 The 524A is too new! First try the 521A, as per RetroOS suggestion. If it still gives you grief, then try the VIA_Hyperion 4in1_v456. I'd try to install it on top of the already installed driver, just to install what's missing. If this procedure doesn't work for you, then remove the previous installs and add the 456. As for USB, NUSB 3.3 should be all you need. But, in case it doesn't enable USB 2.0 for you, the you should remove just the USB 2.0 generic driver using add/remove and install VIA_USB2_V270p1-L-M. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imai Posted July 9, 2009 Author Share Posted July 9, 2009 Thanks to all your good advice my problems are solved The next step will be to increase memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Glad to hear it ! Just for the record, which Hyperion driver solved it for you? And, BTW, if you ever decide to add a SATA drive, this is the right driver to use: VIA_VT6420VT8237_SerialATA_V220E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imai Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 Sorry I should have kept you informed of what I have done to get it (almost) going.The installation of the 521A went smoothly after installation of DirecX8.1, then I ran NUSB3.3, taking a chance because it is intended for the English version of Windows and I have a Dutch version. My 2GB USB stick was then identified as a USB2 flash drive which had to be formatted. There was no data on the stick so after formatting I could load it with data. Graphics were OK after the installation of the ATI AGP driver. So I wrote the message that all was fine.My enthousiasm was somewhat tempered the next day when I found that a second 2GB USB stick did not show up in ThisComputer.There is a memory conflict in system devices for the ACPI-BIOS systemcard extention, but that may be solved when I increse memory.The next step will be to install 2GB DDR2 ram (changing the system.ini file as explained in this forum) and the installation of a SATA drive so your advice for the driver is well timed.Thanks again and any other suggestions are most wecome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 (edited) Just for the record, there is a "simplified" driver for USB (instead of the however very good NUSB), that in my experience worked nicely and almost "out of the box" on non-English systems:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=99220jaclaz Edited July 10, 2009 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imai Posted August 18, 2009 Author Share Posted August 18, 2009 Thanks to all your good advice I have W98SE running on a Asrock 4coredual-sata2 mobo with 2 GB PC2-5300 memory (only 1GB in use).Processor Intel Pentium E5200ATI Rage 128 pro AGP 4xsystem.iniMaxPhysPage=40000MaxFileCache=261120MinFileCache=32768ChunkSize=4096Config.sys: device=c:\windows\himem.exe (renamed himem.sys) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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