What was the last Intel chipset that had Win-98 Drivers?

Which 8xx and 9xx Socket 775 chipsets have Win-98 driver support?

Can anyone name any Socket 775 motherboards with win-98 drivers?

Are there any PCI-Express motherboards with Win-98 support?

PC Guy wrote:
Which 8xx and 9xx Socket 775 chipsets have Win-98 driver support?

Can anyone name any Socket 775 motherboards with win-98 drivers?

Are there any PCI-Express motherboards with Win-98 support?


i dont think so there is any as microsoft stopped giving support to
windows 98 these guys stopped it tooo i dont think so ther is any

In article , PC Guy wrote:

Which 8xx and 9xx Socket 775 chipsets have Win-98 driver support?

Can anyone name any Socket 775 motherboards with win-98 drivers?

Are there any PCI-Express motherboards with Win-98 support?

The answer would appear to be a deep dark secret.

To help you, try this. Go to:

http://www.msi.com.tw/index.htm

and enter "win98" in the upper right search box. Leave the menu
next to it set to "All". Click the tiny arrow to the right of it.
You will get a page with 500+ hits for the search term. One
of the first web pages listed, is for a product using 915P.
It says Win98 is not supported. That tells me that any 9xx
motherboard is not going to be a good candidate for Win98.

I would look for a motherboard based on 865/875/848 and having
an LGA775 socket. Asus P5P800SE is an example. Other companies
make hybrids using old chipsets and LGA775 as well. That means
you'll be using an AGP slot and DDR memory. With any luck, at
least with the P5P800SE, there will be a separate download for an
Intel-provided USB driver for Win98.

On Nvidia, Nforce3 was the last chipset with Win98 support.
I determined that from looking at the Nvidia download page
a while back. There are mainly AMD S754 single channel boards
with Nforce3, and a select few S939 boards that used Nforce3
(from Gigabyte perhaps). I would guess Nforce3 has been out
of production for a while, so finding a rich assortment of
products based on that chip is unlikely.

There are other chipset companies, but you didn't ask about
them :-) You can try visiting the sis.com site or viaarena.com
and see if they are any better. Perhaps you can see a pattern
to their support from their download pages. A quick check on
ATI site, shows they don't offer chipset drivers for download,
so you have to slog through a motherboard site to figure out
what ATI chipsets support.

After slogging through a few pages, maybe an SIS662 offers
some modern technology. I went to sis.com/download, clicked
Win98 and looked for an IGP driver, and SIS662 is the most
modern chipset listed. It means SIS662 just might be the most
modern chipset that works with Win98 (maybe).

Here is a motherboard with SIS662.

Abit SG-95 microATX - DDR2-667, PCI-E x16 vid, FSB800.
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/...es=1&model=328

Hmmm. Their compat page shows Conroe ? (FSB1066?)
http://www2.abit.com.tw/test-report/sg-95.htm

And the Abit download page offers no drivers for SG-95 :-(
So now the mystery about Win98/ME remains. I checked a few
other manufacturer sites, and no one seems to have a
662 chipset board ready.

You've picked a challenging project.

Have fun looking,
Paul

PC Guy wrote:


Which 8xx and 9xx Socket 775 chipsets have Win-98 driver support?

Can anyone name any Socket 775 motherboards with win-98 drivers?

Are there any PCI-Express motherboards with Win-98 support?

To possibly answer your last question, it would seem that the current Via
chipsets still have drivers for Win98SE.
Have a look at:

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx...D=6&CatID=1110

Cheers!

--
Graham
Website - http://www.thedeathzone.free-online.co.uk

Paul wrote:

In article , PC Guy wrote:

Which 8xx and 9xx Socket 775 chipsets have Win98 driver support?

To help you, try this. Go to:

http://www.msi.com.tw/index.htm

The problem with going to the motherboard makers is that I frequently
see specs such as "Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP/2003" and then when
I download their driver and unpack it, I see a Windows-98 and
Windows-ME subdirectory.

I know I mentioned Socket 775, but here's an interesting board:

AOpen i915GMm-HFS Intel Socket 479

That has chipset support for Win-98 (which I found by downloading the
driver and looking at it) but perhaps not video or audio support. How
many other motherboards have HDTV / Component video output? What
video cards have that?

So I don't necessarily believe their superficial OS specs.

Which means that if Intel has ICH drivers for a certain chipset for
Win-98, then at least that's a starting point.

There are other chipset companies, but you didn't ask about
them :-)

I've never been happy with SIS or VIA.

I'll have a look at your links though. Thanx.

Sorry, but you are out of luck. Win 98 support ended with the early Socket
478 P4 boards. You are too far out of date with that OS.

--
DaveW

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"PC Guy" wrote in message ...

Which 8xx and 9xx Socket 775 chipsets have Win-98 driver support?

Can anyone name any Socket 775 motherboards with win-98 drivers?

Are there any PCI-Express motherboards with Win-98 support?

DaveW wrote:

Sorry, but you are out of luck. Win 98 support ended with the
early Socket 478 P4 boards. You are too far out of date with
that OS.

You should check your facts before you post.

Support for Win-98 is plentiful for most if not all socket-478 boards,
including those for prescott, as well as Pentium-M.

What I'm looking for is the exact cut-off from Intel. I'm fairly sure
that any or all 8xx-based motherboards come with CD's with 98
drivers. The 8xx chips became available from mid-2002 through late
2003 (the last one being 865GV in Sept 2003) with Southbridge ICH5R.

The 9xx series chipsets is where (I think) pci-express starts. The
910/910GL appears to support both socket 775 and socket 478 and
PCI-Express, but others (like 915 and above) only seem to support
socket 775.

I appear to be correct, because from he

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/cs-011594.htm

We can look at some information about the 910GL:

http://support.intel.com/products/ch...10gl/index.htm

Or we can look here for the chipset driver:

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...?ProductID=816

And Win-98 is available as an option.

But Win-98 is also an option for the 915G/GV/P as well (and those are
socket 775).

In article , PC Guy says...

Which 8xx and 9xx Socket 775 chipsets have Win-98 driver support?

Can anyone name any Socket 775 motherboards with win-98 drivers?

Are there any PCI-Express motherboards with Win-98 support?

More importantly, why the **** would anyone want to put a crap Win9x OS
on anything remotely modern?

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On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:24:57 +0100, Conor
wrote:

In article , PC Guy says...

Which 8xx and 9xx Socket 775 chipsets have Win-98 driver support?

Can anyone name any Socket 775 motherboards with win-98 drivers?

Are there any PCI-Express motherboards with Win-98 support?

More importantly, why the **** would anyone want to put a crap Win9x OS
on anything remotely modern?


Possibly because certain software or hardware (drivers)
don't support NT.

Conor wrote:

More importantly, why the **** would anyone want to put a crap
Win9x OS on anything remotely modern?

Because XP is steaming pile of **** that was designed for industrial
use (read: corporations with hundreds or thousands of PC's). Because
XP systems became trojan and virus infested pieces of crap since the
day XP came out until late 2004 when SP2 came out. Because I don't
need an OS with remote-this and remote-that services running on it.

Because Micro$haft needs to bring out a new OS every 2 years and
suckers like you buy into them hook, line and sinker, even though you
curse and scowl at them for being an illegal monopoly - for being an
evil empire with a totalitarian mindset.

Win-98se is actually only 1.5 years older than XP. It can handle very
large hard drives, it can handle at least 512 mb of ram (and usually
at least 768 mb), runs very fast on P-4 systems with SATA, etc etc
etc.

How many times has your XP system phoned home to Milkro$haft to check
and see if it's still legal? How many updates and patches did you
download today?