Installing Win98SE on a Vista machine

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I have an Acer Aspire E380 - Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz 1GB Ram
running VISTA and most of my games, flt sims, etc. will not
run on it even though most of them are Microsoft programs
i.e. MS Flt sim, MS force-feed-back joystick, MS Combat Flt
sim, etc. I thought my solution was to partition the hard drive
with a FAT32 partition (which I can do with VCOM System Cmdr9)
and install Win98se. On further checking I discover that Win98se
has limitations such as 512MB of RAM and no processor over 2.2GHz.
My question is: is the 512MB of RAM a deal breaker? I have also
been told that it might work but with reduced performance. Any
advise would be greatly appreciated.
 
You should have no problems running 98SE on that machine......you do need to
find 98 drivers though.
peter
 
REPINFL said:
I have an Acer Aspire E380 - Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz 1GB Ram
running VISTA and most of my games, flt sims, etc. will not
run on it even though most of them are Microsoft programs
i.e. MS Flt sim, MS force-feed-back joystick, MS Combat Flt
sim, etc. I thought my solution was to partition the hard drive
with a FAT32 partition (which I can do with VCOM System Cmdr9)
and install Win98se. On further checking I discover that Win98se
has limitations such as 512MB of RAM and no processor over 2.2GHz.
My question is: is the 512MB of RAM a deal breaker? I have also
been told that it might work but with reduced performance. Any
advise would be greatly appreciated.
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Win98SE has no problems with 1GB RAM. It's vcache that has
problems with more than 512MB. In your windows directory
open system.ini with notepad and add MaxFileCache=512000
under the [vcache] heading. It's Win95 and Win98 Standard
Edition (original Win98) that have problems with CPUs faster
than 2.2GHz. Win98SE (Special Edition) doesn't have this
limitation. I have been running 98SE at 2.6GHz for years with
no problems. Win98SE will recognize multi-core CPUs as single
CPU only. Just be sure you have all the necessary Win98
drivers for your system.
 
If you were to visit the Acer support website, you would
soon see that the OP's Acer Aspire E380 computer only
has drivers for Windows XP and Windows Vista. There
are no drivers available to work with Windows 98, such
as video adapter, audio, modem, NIC, etc. Attempting
to install Windows 98 on this computer will only result
in a disaster.

Ref: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/desktop/aspire_e380.html

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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REPINFL said:
I have an Acer Aspire E380 - Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz 1GB Ram
running VISTA and most of my games, flt sims, etc. will not
run on it even though most of them are Microsoft programs
i.e. MS Flt sim, MS force-feed-back joystick, MS Combat Flt
sim, etc. I thought my solution was to partition the hard drive
with a FAT32 partition (which I can do with VCOM System Cmdr9)
and install Win98se. On further checking I discover that Win98se
has limitations such as 512MB of RAM and no processor over 2.2GHz.
My question is: is the 512MB of RAM a deal breaker? I have also
been told that it might work but with reduced performance. Any
advise would be greatly appreciated.
Click to expand...
Win98SE has no problems with 1GB RAM. It's vcache that has
problems with more than 512MB. In your windows directory
open system.ini with notepad and add MaxFileCache=512000
under the [vcache] heading. It's Win95 and Win98 Standard
Edition (original Win98) that have problems with CPUs faster
than 2.2GHz. Win98SE (Special Edition) doesn't have this
limitation. I have been running 98SE at 2.6GHz for years with
no problems. Win98SE will recognize multi-core CPUs as single
CPU only. Just be sure you have all the necessary Win98
drivers for your system.
 
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