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New PC, 98 with old BIOS
I give up!
YOU ALMOST CERTAINLY CANNOT RUN ANY KIND OF WINDOWS 95, 98, 98SE, ME or NT (maybe even 2000) ON THAT MACHINE! I can almost guarantee you that. You need drivers and there are no such things. They've never been written. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... Gary S. Terhune wrote: William, the point is that there are no such drivers. You need them, but they don't exist and never will. In other words, you can't do what you want to do. Okay, Gary, I'm resigned to taking a different path. I'm installing Win 98 anew on an empty hard drive. I am aware of the pitfalls involved with large RAM and have cut back to 512MB. I understand that there may be complications, in that my current MB runs at 3.1 GHz. Are there patches or upgrades still available, for Win 98, that I can download and use to upgrade my old original issue Win98? Thank you. |
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New PC, 98 with old BIOS
Gary S. Terhune wrote:
I give up! YOU ALMOST CERTAINLY CANNOT RUN ANY KIND OF WINDOWS 95, 98, 98SE, ME or NT (maybe even 2000) ON THAT MACHINE! I can almost guarantee you that. You need drivers and there are no such things. They've never been written. But I do like to experiment with these things. Not very clear in my query was a request, as to whether there is a link to specific downloads to upgrade Win 98 from my original CD, to a 98 with all the warts from its original issuance removed. I could not find such on the Microsoft download site, even thought there are specific places to click for Win 98 downloads. I have installed Win 98 in VPC and I would like to remove the warts before I install ME, using my 98 to ME CD. |
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New PC, 98 with old BIOS
Play all you want, you aren't going to get anything decent out of 9x on that
hardware. No, there is no "download' to upgrade Win98. To get from Win98 to Win98SE, you have to buy an installation CD, just like you did with the ME Upgrade. You can go to EBay to find one. Note that the OEM offering of Win98SE cannot be used to Upgrade and must be clean installed. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... Gary S. Terhune wrote: I give up! YOU ALMOST CERTAINLY CANNOT RUN ANY KIND OF WINDOWS 95, 98, 98SE, ME or NT (maybe even 2000) ON THAT MACHINE! I can almost guarantee you that. You need drivers and there are no such things. They've never been written. But I do like to experiment with these things. Not very clear in my query was a request, as to whether there is a link to specific downloads to upgrade Win 98 from my original CD, to a 98 with all the warts from its original issuance removed. I could not find such on the Microsoft download site, even thought there are specific places to click for Win 98 downloads. I have installed Win 98 in VPC and I would like to remove the warts before I install ME, using my 98 to ME CD. |
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New PC, 98 with old BIOS
Gary S. Terhune wrote:
Play all you want, you aren't going to get anything decent out of 9x on that hardware. No, there is no "download' to upgrade Win98. To get from Win98 to Win98SE, you have to buy an installation CD, just like you did with the ME Upgrade. You can go to EBay to find one. Note that the OEM offering of Win98SE cannot be used to Upgrade and must be clean installed. Okay, then I just gor from basic 98 to my upgrade to ME. I see no reason to do Win98SE; I'm comfortable with the ME upgrade. I would like to add, if there are any, and post- release fixes for ME, or maybe it was just perfect and needed no corrections. |
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New PC, 98 with old BIOS
Again, you won't be able to run Windows ME on that hardware. Windows ME has
Updates just like any other Windows. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... Gary S. Terhune wrote: Play all you want, you aren't going to get anything decent out of 9x on that hardware. No, there is no "download' to upgrade Win98. To get from Win98 to Win98SE, you have to buy an installation CD, just like you did with the ME Upgrade. You can go to EBay to find one. Note that the OEM offering of Win98SE cannot be used to Upgrade and must be clean installed. Okay, then I just gor from basic 98 to my upgrade to ME. I see no reason to do Win98SE; I'm comfortable with the ME upgrade. I would like to add, if there are any, and post- release fixes for ME, or maybe it was just perfect and needed no corrections. |
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New PC, 98 with old BIOS
Gary S. Terhune wrote:
Again, you won't be able to run Windows ME on that hardware. Windows ME has Updates just like any other Windows. Sorry, Gary, something got lost on the way. I have now installed 98 under VPC in this XP machine and it's working fine. I have already upgraded it, not to Win98SE, but to ME, and it is working fine. What I'm seeking (and have asked Mike Maltby in the ME newsgroup to help me with) are the upgrades for Win ME, in such form that I can install them in the now running ME system. I had no intention of going online from the ME system, so what I need are download and Save links. |
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New PC, 98 with old BIOS
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:00:42 -0400, "William B. Lurie"
put finger to keyboard and composed: Gary S. Terhune wrote: Again, you won't be able to run Windows ME on that hardware. Windows ME has Updates just like any other Windows. Sorry, Gary, something got lost on the way. I have now installed 98 under VPC in this XP machine and it's working fine. I have already upgraded it, not to Win98SE, but to ME, and it is working fine. What I'm seeking (and have asked Mike Maltby in the ME newsgroup to help me with) are the upgrades for Win ME, in such form that I can install them in the now running ME system. I had no intention of going online from the ME system, so what I need are download and Save links. Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Essential Free Upgrades + Fixes: http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm#WME - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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New PC, 98 with old BIOS
Sorry, I got going on a sidetrack. Totally missed the VPC reference.
Try Franc's link. Otherwise, I have a full set of Updates for Windows 98, 98SE and ME on CD. I ask $3. Email me at if interested. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... Gary S. Terhune wrote: Again, you won't be able to run Windows ME on that hardware. Windows ME has Updates just like any other Windows. Sorry, Gary, something got lost on the way. I have now installed 98 under VPC in this XP machine and it's working fine. I have already upgraded it, not to Win98SE, but to ME, and it is working fine. What I'm seeking (and have asked Mike Maltby in the ME newsgroup to help me with) are the upgrades for Win ME, in such form that I can install them in the now running ME system. I had no intention of going online from the ME system, so what I need are download and Save links. |
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