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What Kind Of Pc You Running 98se On?


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I've occassionally thought about Neptune, but wasn't that the OS with only 2 builds. As I recall it was cancelled completely before it made it to beta.

There are a few copies of neptune floating around. Even tried it myself and am currently running it on another home pc here (200mhz but not win98 so it's irrelevant in this topic) . Functions pretty nicely despite being mostly windows 2k. :whistle: So it definately made beta but was eventually leaked. There were actually 3 builds leaked.

Anyway.. specs for myself are:

Primary PC [gaming/coding/the works]

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4ghz) (tiny OC to 2.5ghz)

EPoX EP-9NDA3J Mobo

S3 Savage 2000 /mv (64mb) [AKA: Diamond Viper Z-200]

640mb DDR400 (PC3200) SDRAM

Yamaha YMF-724 Soundcard (32-bit) [Too attached to ditch this card - beautiful midi emulation & sound]

80gb WD Caviar (E-IDE) [soon to be swapped out for a 180gb WD - SATA]

*Dirty install - Ghosted install from my tertiary pc. Only wiped the ENUM branch after ghosting.

Secondary PC [Laptop/Webserver]

Toshiba Satellite A15-S157 notebook

Intel Celeron (2.2ghz)

512mb PC2600 DDR SDRAM

40gb Toshiba HD

*clean install <2 years ago

Tertiary PC [Fileserver/Old Primary PC]

AMD K6-II @ 500mhz

EPoX EP-MVP3C Mobo

S3 Savage 3D /MV (7.5mb)

448mb PC100 SDRAM

Soundblaster Soundcard - ISA (32-bit) [used to be used together with the Yamaha card above]

8.4gb Fujitsu HD (E-IDE)

160gb Maxtor (E-IDE) hard disk

*Clean install >5 years ago

All running purely windows 98SE. I could use any OS I want but win98se is my prime choice and always will be for my personal use. Also, yes.. there is a bit of a trend going between my Primary and Tertiary PC's as far as Motherboard, CPU, and GFX is concerned. Alsways relied on AMD, EPoX and S3.

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I doubt any Audigy drivers suport this mode. I have an SB AWE64 gold - I wonder how good it is? - but its ISA only so I haven't used it yet :(

I was able to with an SB AWE32. I forget where I found it, but it was a util named AWEUTIL.COM. Anyways, I set it up pretty quick (on top of the normal autoexec.bat setttings for a SB16) and I did get the full wave table synthesis effects (tested using doom2 and decent).

I think this is all I needed to get it going (no idea what the "SET SOUND=A:\DOS" actually does though).

SET SOUND=A:\DOS

SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6

LH AWEUTIL.COM /S

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Only wiped the ENUM branch after ghosting.

I do the same thing when installing a 98se image originally built on different hardware (has worked great for me). Would you happen to know of an equivalent method for win2k? It doesnt have an HKLM/Enum key in the registry. I am aware of sysprep, but Im not real fond of it because when I tried it out, it changed all the various settings I spent ~30 min setting up back to their defaults :angry: .

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I am aware of sysprep, but Im not real fond of it because when I tried it out, it changed all the various settings I spent ~30 min setting up back to their defaults

Oh, you've tried that tool. Could you tell more about what it does ? Could you also say if besides what you say it works as announced ?

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B) dont know much about sys prep tool but i know ghosting a image to throw on another machine.works great.i cant believe people format that often but i saw a old poll in here and they do must be all them nlite i removed needed component shoot me now errors lol.You guys are great responding to my topic keep up the good work and ill send u all a copy of win 95 platium j/k maybe some new socks 4 xmas your thx me.chow

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Win98SE is on a GA-7VRXP w/Duron 1100 +256mb DDR and GF4-440. I can live with the hardware (desperately need more ram though) and I'm as happy with Win98 as I'm ever going to be with an MS OS. But I desperately need new socks. :unsure::D

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  • 1 month later...

Pentium Pro 200MHz

256 MB EDO RAM

3.8 GB Hard Drive

Creative DVD Drive

Richoh CD RW/DVD Combo

3dfx Voodoo 4 32MB PCI

Creative MPEG2 PCI Card

Skymaster USB 2.0 4+1 PCI Card

Ensoniq Soundscape ISA Sound Card

and it still rocks!

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PC1:

Celeron 733

64MB DDR 200 ram

10GB Seagate ATA 100 HD (running @ ATA33 as the mobo don't support anything greater)

Samsung 605 DVD (reader only)

GForce 3Ti (not able to use hardware accelaration)

PC2:

Celeron 733

128MB DDR 200 ram

GForce 3Ti (not able to use hardware accelaration)

Maxtor 300GB ATA 133 HD (running @ ATA33 as the mobo don't support anything greater)

Samsung 605 DVD (reader only)

The year model of PC 1 is 2002 , PC2 2004

Both are Xboxes running stripped down Win98SE emulated under XDSL in Qemu. :thumbup

Just 4 Fun.. :w00t:

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on every machine, that has spect below 266mhz and 64MB (or less) ram, and harddisk up top 5gb any systems with higher spect will either be running

NT4 (if either ram is more than 64, or cpu more than 266mhz)

and from, 450 + 128mb ram and at least 6gb harddisk -

choice on either windows 2000 or slackware linux.

but i realy am confused seeing people, run 9x windows versions on any system with more than 2gh or even 512mb ram, - dont you guys know windows ME is only cabable of efficiently using up to 128 per thread and mutithreaded tasks are NO option for such an OS...

i do find it BOLD though

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I'm currently using Windows 98 as hobby project, dualboot next to Windows XP Professional (Main OS)

specs:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1533 MHz

Asus A7V333 (VIA KT333 chipset)

256 MB DDR-RAM 2700

PoV nVidia Geforce4 Ti4200 64MB

Seagate Barracuda 4 40 GB (7200 RPM)

Maxtor Diamond Max 10 250 GB (7200 RPM)

Lite-On 52x32x52 CD-Burner

LG GSA-4163B DVD-Burner

Medion 7134 Saa7134 TV-Tuner

Logitech UltraX keyboard (Very nice :))

Logitech Optical Wheelmouse

Logitech Driving Force Pro (:rolleyes:)

Acer AL712 17" TFT-screen

Labtec 1016 speakers

I'm looking for some new system, meanwhile buying extra stuff so I have double now :wacko:

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My specs:

MS Windows 98SE USP2.1a

Abit NF7-S v2 motherboard

AMD Athlon XP 3000+

1GB DDR400

17" Dell crt monitor

nVidia GeForce4 MX4000 128MB AGP

Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS

I just did a clean install a few days ago. My PC hasn't crashed, runs hella fast, and makes my XP Home laptop look like crap.

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