Running windows 95 in 2021 (software and hardware questions)

[Mr.Scienceman2000]

I have been planning setting up windows 95 to one of my system for experimental purposes to see how far can push it and got some questions from any possible remain win95 users. I know win98SE got better driver support on this but just want

try win95 since got original OSR 2 cd and usb update, win95 can be installed without active desktop, ie or other bloat and since want experiment with win95 on faster HW.

Target system I will be using specs are Asus P4P800 mainboard, Intel Pentium 4 2.80ghz HT, IDE dvd drive, ide cd-r, 250gb sata hdd, 320gb ide hdd, 160gb sata hdd, nvidia 6800gt agp, onboard soundmax ADI AC97 codec, 3com nic.

So far been founding/got following:

3com nic got offical win95 driver, windows can support most of flash drives and other usb storage medias using RLoew usb driver for windows 95, RLoew ram, high capacity disk and sata patch allow me to use even 4gb of ram and sata mode with large hdd on windows 95. For fast cpu this fixed issue on every fast cpu Ioaded windows 95 on. For partitioning I will use windows 98 updated fdisk. Nvidia 77.72 driver can be forced on windows 95 likely. All expect control panel should work just fine, for media player I can use one linked on this msfn topic. I plan keep it IE free. For browser/email client Retrozilla is best since support tls 1.2

 

What is still problematic:

Soundmax ac97 adi codec only driver supporting win95 was this on IBM site, there is no chipset driver for 865 chipset and not sure how much issues it can cause if use without.

 

I will be trying it on someday when time but wanted ask if anyone here got experience on any of that hw with windows 95 for possible tweaks/others I may need to do