I have tried to install Windows 98 SE on PC with motherboard made by MSI and I'd like to share my experience and ask if anybody got better results with motherboard based on Intel 915 series chipset. What are the items that need driver.

915GM + ICH-6 chipset. This is officially supported in version 6.3.0.1007 of. USB 2.0 controller - Without any driver, all 8 USB ports are fully functional in USB 1.1 mode, I tried OrangeWare driver (version 2.04.0.0) that is necessary for motherboards with ICH-4 and ICH-5 southbridges, everything looked fine, USB2 EHCI controller was found, USB2 hub was found, usbview utility shows USB2 controller+hub with 8 ports - but it is not switched to USB2 mode.

SATA/PATA disk controller It contains standard ATA100 interface suitable for connecting of two PATA devices (HDD, CD-ROM) and SATA controller for connecting upto 4 SATA devices. It can be switched (in BIOS) into three modes: 1. Disable SATA.

In this mode just PATA devices are recognized, ESDI506.PDR is used and speed upto 100 MBps can be achieved. In this mode the SATA controller operates in legacy mode, Windows 98 SE see SATA disks as standard ATA devices (ESDI506.PDR driver) and with enabled DMA the tested transfer speed was upto 135 MBps. The PATA devices are disabled in this mode! Enhanced mode. In this mode both controllers work in native mode.

It means that PATA devices are served by ESD506.PDR, and SATA controller has yellow excalamtion mark - therefore all disk drives connected to SATA ports operate in compatibility (16-bit) mode. Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 It has no driver supplied by Intel. It can work as standard PCI graphics controller in 640 x 480 x 4-bit resolution only. There is no possibility to switch it off manually. If PCI-E graphics card is inserted, it is switched off automatically, but if PCI graphics card is inserted, it is still present. I tried Nvidia 6200 Turbo Cache PCI-E board but it even does not work as Standard PCI VGA, it works as standard VGA only (again 640x480x4). Then I tried some old S3 Trio64V+ PCI board and it works fine in 1024x768x16bit.

I plan to try other PCI-E boards. Intel® High Definition Audio It seems there is no support for HDA bus in Windows 98SE, is available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 only. The codec used is Realtek ALC880 and Realtek also offers no solution. This board contains also two Marvell 1000 Mbps Ethernet controllers - the Windows 98 SE driver works fine, but sometimes it was not able to obtain the IP address from DHCP server, but there is visible delay also in Windows XP on the same computer. The box I tested had 1024 MB of RAM and it was not necessary to do anything special to install Windows 98 SE from the original CD-ROM to this computer. The summary so far: - SATA disks in legacy mode and PATA disks in native mode works perfectly, but not concurrently.

USB works in 1.1 mode only - On-board graphics controller works in VGA mode only, add-on PCI board works correctly - On-board audio does not work at all What drivers are needed: - Intel ICH6 SATA controller - Intel ICH6 USB 2.0 EHCI controller - Intel 915G(M) GMA900 Graphics controller - Intel ICH6 HDA controler + Realtek ALC880 codec Maybe somebody was able modify some existing driver to work or has any other workaround. I did this test just to see how easy it is to operate Windows 98 SE on newer motherboards with Intel chipset. I plan to try also next generation motherboard, with Smithfiled processor but I don't expect big differences. If anybody has any (better) experience please let me know. Our driver will not work on ICH6 and ICH7 as Intel did not license for those platforms. But the difference between ICH5 and ICH6 seems not to be big, maybe some easy trick can enable the USB2.0 functionality, I don't know.

Regarding SciTech, I almost forgot that they exist. I have used their driver 15 years ago very often. Unfortunately they support VEN8086&DEV2582 = 'Intel® 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family' only and not VEN8086&DEV2592 'Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family'. It seems that the latest beta (3.1.3) of Scitech SNAP supports i915GM chipset. I'm still figuring out how to unpack the installer and install this thing manually, since I have a system with a 945GM but they only want to support 945G. I want to force the 945G drivers on it, I think it should work fine since the two are very similar. (It says 'unsupported chipset' when run).

There already is a that supports the Intel 910G(ML), 915G, 945G, among other video chipsets, around the net, it seems. I tried Nvidia 6200 Turbo Cache PCI-E board but it even does not work as Standard PCI VGA, it works as standard VGA only (again 640x480x4). Then I tried some old S3 Trio64V+ PCI board and it works fine in 1024x768x16bit. I plan to try other PCI-E boards. I have tried Geforce 6200 PCI-E and its driver was very unstable under Win98. NVidia's tech support (after complaining a bit that they do not make video boards) told me to stop using this obsolete operating system. However, two different models of ATI X550 do work properly.

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They have limited DOS memory to maybe a megabyte or smth, but it is OK. The driver for Realtek ALC codec (integrated) is not stable, but I don't care as I have a good sound card (Yamaha YMF724). Yay, DOS games! VIA VT6410 SATA/RAID controller works properly.

I have tried only P-ATA devices (three 250 GB hard drives are connected). Operating of RAID-ed drives in DOS mode is possible, but if writing is attempted it may corrupt the entire disk.

Marvell network interface works properly (except, read below). This Windows 98 machine can not operate for more than 4 or 5 days because of some timer problem I have not been able to resolve so far. The system clock slows down, then there appear timing problems in MIDI hardware, then network card (Marvell) wouldn't accept incoming connections, regular digital audio wouldn't play (PCI board). I suspect it's because system timer shares IRQ 0 with an IDE controller, but I'm not sure. There are no observable problems running Win98 for shorter periods of time, like one day.

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Edited December 19, 2006 by j7n. Change the value of the registry key: 'HKLM Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Detect ACPIOption' into ' 2' To enter registry go to Run Execute type in 'regedit'. Clicking on + HKEYLOCALMACHINE (HKLM) will open that tree and so on. If this entry is not in your registry, go to '. Detect' and create new DWORD-value 'ACPIOption' by clicking Edit-New-DWORD-value and typing in 'ACPIOption' with value 2 (no matter if dec or hex) After that - start hardware detect (Control Panel).

I guess this disables ACPI and enables APM instead. BTW, in Windows 2k/XP, APM is enabled by using 'Standard PC' HAL: Regards, Roman. From what I can tell, motherboards based on the Intel 915P chipset are probably the most desirable for Windows-98se at this point.

That particular chipset does not have integrated video, and it does have DDR-2 support. The next best would be 915PL, followed by the 875. According to the mobot on motherboard.org, Soyo has this board: Soyo SY-P4I915 DRAGON 3 Which I can't find on Soyo's web site nor can I find much about it doing a general web search. Seems that it would make a great win-98 platform. It seems to have ATA-133, which very few boards have. One problem could be finding a PCI-express video card with win-98 drivers. I guess you can always use a PCI video card.

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There is also the Gigabyte GA-8I915P-D ad nd the Microstar MSI 915P Neo2. Asus doesn't seem to make a board based on the 915P. All of the 915-based boards that I've looked at all claim that they don't support Win-98, yet in their driver download section there is always support for win-98 for the various components (audio, chipset, ethernet).

Can anyone else post their experiences with Win-98 and motherboards based on the i915?