*** Recommendation needed *** Which desktop or motherboard supports fast CPU and Windows 98

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Please tell which desktop computer models of selected brands, or ASUS
motherboards support

INTEL CPU with Windows 98 drivers.

My favorite desktop brands are: Dell, HP, Lenovo.
The INTEL CPU should be 3 GHz or faster, or dual core at 2 GHz or faster.
It should supports at least 2 GB of RAM memory.
Small format factor, small footprint is definitively a big plus.

It MUST be QUIET.

Due to the need to run a special audio PCI card having only Windows 98,
laptop computers may be out of

consideration!

I did use the special audio PCI with a Toshiba laptop attached to a Toshiba
PCI extension box, but the Toshiba's LCD

is at the end of its life!!!!
Very tempted to buy a used Dell laptop with PCI Dock, but afraid of soon
getting the same LCD problem.
If you know a Dell laptop model having PCI dock as fast as stated above,
please let me know (in desperate case).

Your help is MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!
 
Please tell which desktop computer models of selected brands, or ASUS
motherboards support

INTEL CPU with Windows 98 drivers.

My favorite desktop brands are: Dell, HP, Lenovo.
The INTEL CPU should be 3 GHz or faster, or dual core at 2 GHz or faster.
It should supports at least 2 GB of RAM memory.
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IBM (Lenovo) M52 desktops probably meet your needs and are widely
available at about $100.
 
You can stick a 512M module in a board and only get 98SE to boot by
crossing both fingers on both hands and circling the case it's in
twice in opposite only directions. But you do have to specially ask
for the drivers in specially designed packages with special
instructions on it in the special print that says Get a Life.

Not a problem if you can live with generic stuff, very small HDs,
unidentified EGA default video resolutions, a soundboard from Ebay.
Oh, and did I already mention one hell of a lot of luck with a new MB?

Dell, HP, Lenovo -- who or what are they? Some things tasty for
putting in a pot crook to cook?

Favorite MBs are increasingly more like favorite HDs. My very least
favorites are $200-300, although $17 or $26 is also nice. Even those
I can't wait to pay for, like this morning's 50K-hour Miss Mistress
designed box-blister packed solid state capacitors surrounding the
CPU, they come in features of bent-pins both as-&-for new at no-slack
$60 charged. When the statement comes through, it's only capital to
hipityhop right in time onto it.
 
Flasherly said:
You can stick a 512M module in a board and only get 98SE to boot by
crossing both fingers on both hands and circling the case it's in
twice in opposite only directions.
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Not true. Look for "system.ini" and MaxPhysPage setting.

I've run Win98 on a machine with 2GB of memory installed.

It's tricky to edit system.ini at the right time, but
never the less, that's the solution. MaxPhysPage and
MaxFileCache are the two worth knowing about. And
MaxPhysPage helps when you have way too much RAM.

Paul
 
Many thanks for all responds!!!!

I will research (!) about these recommendation.
My music software does not need much memory. My current Windows 98 laptop
could have only 256MB.

On the new (second hand) hardware, the memory above 512MB will be used as
RAM DISK. This should compensate the slower CPU and HD compared to today
standard!!!
 
It's tricky to edit system.ini at the right time, but
never the less, that's the solution. MaxPhysPage and
MaxFileCache are the two worth knowing about. And
MaxPhysPage helps when you have way too much RAM.

Paul
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True & recall the setting;- works on some as in very few machines
(older the better), though it's at best -iffy. Comes under "advanced"
settings. But all that was a long, long time ago, just about long
enough for anything about 98, under these new boards, to be -iffy.
Anything I've encountered for the past 4-5 years that just might boot
98 sure won't stay that way or take much else by way of programs. (I
sold one that's got around a AMD 1.2Ghz that'll dual boots 98 fine,
but it's been running over 10, 12 maybe more years and just won't
break. Stopped trying to tell him it should because he doesn't like
hearing it -- no reason, according to him, his shouldn't last another
50 years or something.)
 
Many thanks for all responds!!!!

I will research (!) about these recommendation.
My music software does not need much memory. My current Windows 98 laptop
could have only 256MB.

On the new (second hand) hardware, the memory above 512MB will be used as
RAM DISK. This should compensate the slower CPU and HD compared to today
standard!!!
Click to expand...

Guy I made the 98 for does radio, DJs, drums and sings. But when he
saw some new programs I'd set up and what they'll do with playback, he
recently bought another system from me with the power to run them.
Still runs the old machine (98 or XP) for whatever he does with the
internet, though. Oh - no it wont: Ram disks went out pre-Windows
with DOS, after system cache and memory swap files became just as
efficient/sufficient. 512M is good enough for music only XP (although
XP likes its 2G limit) and more than enough for 98.
 
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