With either drive, the same thing happens. If I pulled that second RAM stick out, it would finish that bugged up installation without problems. It would get to the Windows protection error, and would keep powering off the computer. Then, I went back in and replaced the second 1gb of RAM, so that I could retry the Windows 98 installation with 2gb RAM on another 40gb IDE HD. I decided to let it hang there for a few hours just to see if it timed out or what, but when I came back, I found the installation had completed successfully! It just took about two hours instead of 25 minutes. I noticed that the lower 1cm of the Windows 98 sky/clouds screen had that little moving band, which appeared to be frozen, but it was actually moving to the right very, very slowly. When it gets to around the 20 minute point in the countdown, it goes to restart itself, gets to the Windows 98 sky/clouds screen, then freezes up.Īfter having read a lot of these nifty posts here, advising me that Windows 98 generally doesn't work with more than 1gb RAM or a CPU over 2ghz, I remembered it and removed one RAM stick to bring it back to 1gb RAM. The Windows 98 installation blows up and won't continue. It is a Shuttle XPC model SN21G5 which has a 2.21ghz AMD Athlon and 2gb of RAM, and I installed a 40gb IDE HD, not attempting to use the SATA controller here. The problem today is with a Shuttle XPC that just came in. It was a bummer, and since then I've stayed with sub-2ghz generic desktops and still get extremely fast performance and good security with 98SE. There was no driver CD and the online drivers were a tedious piecemeal business that still wouldn't get it 100%. Even the XP Home OEM disk (that I think they were required by law to provide at the time) wouldn't work, because you'd have no drivers for the video, wireless G, USB, etc., etc., etc. The only option it had for installing software was the restore CDs, and they loaded it with the factory disk image plus all the Norton, etc. I paid more than $1K for an HP notebook 6 years ago, only to find that the XP Home it came with was all it would work with. When the installation blows up, I just abort.īefore seeing this forum and similar pages in 2009, I didn't know it was possible to get around that. I've used Windows 98SE on most of my computers for 11 years but don't have any experience with the workarounds required to get 98SE installed on systems that won't work with it natively.
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