Packard Bell 200mmx Legend 1710__ Is it OK upgrade to 98?

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~A_Sammy

Hi,

I have an old PB up and running win 95. Somewhere along the line I remember
something about propriatary modems, etc., and to be careful when changing
anything on them.

Is it OK to upgrade to win98se? Or will that ruin it?

Thanks in advance!

as
 
~A_Sammy said:
Hi,

I have an old PB up and running win 95. Somewhere along the line I remember
something about propriatary modems, etc., and to be careful when changing
anything on them.

Is it OK to upgrade to win98se? Or will that ruin it?

Thanks in advance!

as
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~A_Sammy said:
Hi,

I have an old PB up and running win 95. Somewhere along the line I remember
something about propriatary modems, etc., and to be careful when changing
anything on them.

Is it OK to upgrade to win98se? Or will that ruin it?
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I ran win98 just fine on an even older packard bell...
I'd advise you to have at least 64 megs of RAM ...
(although it will technically work with only 16 megs of ram...with even 32
the sytem will be rather slow)

BTW: if you are doing this so you can add USB it should work out well...
if you do not need USB you may find win95 good enough.
 
I ran win98 just fine on an even older packard bell...
I'd advise you to have at least 64 megs of RAM ...
(although it will technically work with only 16 megs of ram...with even 32
the sytem will be rather slow)
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There is 48 Megs in the computer.
BTW: if you are doing this so you can add USB it should work out well...
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yepper, that's the plan.
if you do not need USB you may find win95 good enough.
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Thanks for your input.
 
~A_Sammy said:
Hi,

I have an old PB up and running win 95. Somewhere along the line I
remember something about propriatary modems, etc., and to be careful
when changing anything on them.

Is it OK to upgrade to win98se? Or will that ruin it?

Thanks in advance!

as
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it might, you'll have a fcking mission getting any driver info out of PB
though...
 
i'm running an AMD 200Mhz mmx, 32 megs and win98se. its an old
workhorse.

its fine.

i even have multiple programs running simultaneously, (email, windows
media, internet explorer..etc). it swaps data to the hard drive a lot
if too many programs are loaded at once but yea in general you should
be fine with win98se.
 
You probably cannot get WIN98 device drivers for your computer's hardware.
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he could probably use generic drivers....unless packard hell has
locked all their products for use with their stuff ONLY.
 
~A_Sammy said:
There is 48 Megs in the computer.


yepper, that's the plan.
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I forgot the model on my old packard bell...it;s up in the attic now
but the one I used was a Legend ...but it was P75
i had 40 megs of RAM and I did the upgrade from win95 to win98
(to get USB support) and it worked out just fine...no problems at all...
it was just a bit slow.
Of course I cannot possibly predict how thing will go with your machine.

I eventually put in a 200mhz overdrive cpu...a total of 128 megs of ram
and a larger and faster harddrive.
The machine was finally retired about a year ago...My girlfriend first got
it
in 1995.
BTW: try to get win98se if possible
 
I have an old PB up and running win 95. Somewhere along the line I
remember something about propriatary modems, etc., and to be careful
when changing anything on them.

Is it OK to upgrade to win98se? Or will that ruin it?
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FWIW I managed to do this on an old Compaq running win95. I renamed the
original c:\Windows directory to Win95, deleted everything else, and then
did a clean install of Windows+software. Everything was fine with the
exception of the winmodem, but I did get it working by using the old
driver in the c:\Win95\inf directory.

My wife's grandmother had an old PB p75 with a (terrible) soundcard and
(terrible) winmodem on the same card. You could possibly get it/them
working using the method above.
 
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