Can Windows 98 Run on a New Modern PC 2024?

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  • @RamtechENG
    @RamtechENG  11 місяців тому +26

    Partition Manager shorturl.at/jqs48

    • @futuristicentity2417
      @futuristicentity2417 11 місяців тому +4

      Advice salvage older hardware and desktop case and make a restoration project if it works it might be that older computers can be considered retro pieces I prefer older Operating Systems because newer ones block certain software and it was a mistake for Microsoft to even go this route. The more they upgrade the more expensive it becomes this is kind of unfair for those who just want a computer I am wanting my Windows 7 Vista back very badly and thinking about formatting and putting it on here my computer isn't compatible with Windows 11 so I am thinking about taking advantage if you have a virus scanner it's all you need you have the option to revert expect no support from Microsoft though apparently they don't want your money that bad enough.

    • @MGRracing
      @MGRracing 5 місяців тому +1

      @@futuristicentity2417 What are your systems specs? I think you can force windows 11 on systems that claim they do not meet minimum requirements.

    • @Putin-Lox
      @Putin-Lox 2 місяці тому +1

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  • @sas999LLJW
    @sas999LLJW Рік тому +397

    Imagine if there was a message' this PC is too new/powerful for windows 98, please downgrade to continue. ' that would be funny

    • @OfficialNightic
      @OfficialNightic Рік тому +25

      If I'm correct some betas of windows operating systems have that

    • @ezequiele.5230
      @ezequiele.5230 11 місяців тому +5

      ​@@OfficialNightic just curious which ones?

    • @OfficialNightic
      @OfficialNightic 11 місяців тому +6

      @@ezequiele.5230 Possibly Memphis, Whistler and Longhorn.

    • @supremegameer1_gaming878
      @supremegameer1_gaming878 9 місяців тому +4

      Underrated comment

    • @OfficialNightic
      @OfficialNightic 9 місяців тому +1

      @@supremegameer1_gaming878 no

  • @garystewart3110
    @garystewart3110 Рік тому +75

    things have gotten so much easier than they used to be. i remember installing drivers on floppies and actually setting jumpers for irq setting.

    • @yussef961
      @yussef961 5 місяців тому +1

      ah yes for overclocking lol you had to tell ms dos games to use dma 220 irq 3 etc

  • @Vlad-1986
    @Vlad-1986 Рік тому +88

    There is actually a SATA driver for DVD drives for DOS. It is called XDVD2
    Also a better tool than patchmem it is called limit9x. Basically, you don't need to change RAM into your computer. It just makes it so regardless of your actual Memory, Windows98 will only see and reserve 512mb. This is the maximum and avoids having to limit the system to 4GB

    • @eizomonitor6003
      @eizomonitor6003 Рік тому +5

      Yup. I did the same a long time ago and worked. Later i used a different patch to max out my memory.

    • @tomyyoung2624
      @tomyyoung2624 Рік тому

      Yes valid cd rom devices drivers selected -M --P

    • @davinovais3436
      @davinovais3436 7 місяців тому

      @@eizomonitor6003 Where I can download it???

    • @pikachuchujelly7628
      @pikachuchujelly7628 4 місяці тому +2

      Rudolph Loew's patch is better. It allows Windows 98 to actually take advantage of all 4 GB of RAM (the absolute maximum for a 32-bit non-PAE OS).

  • @jonathanrees3765
    @jonathanrees3765 Рік тому +15

    Single CPU/core showing up is to be expected, first Microsoft operating system that supported 2 CPUs was NT. At least 1 vendor had an NT 4.0 HAL that supported a whole 4 CPUs (but went out of support really fast). Safe mode loads without any non essential drivers - so if boots in safe mode but not normally it is a driver issue. It is sometimes possible to back port drivers from a newer Windows operating system - under the bonnet even 11 still has old code. Windows retains unused drivers, so when you swap between boards it retains garbage from different board(s). In device manager "Show hidden devices" will normally display these. It is often useful to uninstall these devices/drivers when you have problems as it cleans up plug and play. Plug and play does not actually work properly if the graphics driver is not right or not functioning correctly - not sure why, but after graphics driver install system often then would correctly identify the rest of the system. Installing 95 on older DOS systems often had problems because of faulty RAM - that never showed in DOS.

  • @bitemykrank1970
    @bitemykrank1970 Рік тому +14

    You don't need the USB stick to do a Win98 install. All you need is to copy the win98 folder from the CD to your HDD and run setup from it directly. It's the way we did it back in the day.

  • @markpmar0356
    @markpmar0356 Рік тому +54

    The first OS I used was Windows 98 and it was in 1998 and because some things never change, it didn't run very well at first and the OS didn't really stabilize until it was patched in Windows 98 Second Edition the following year. It was a great OS to play with and learn from but as an OS meant to run on DOS and in 32-bit environments, I'm surprised you got as far as you did. The most "modern" CPU I ever used with Win 98 was a Pentium D. Win 98 wasn't meant to operate past "Pentium !!!", as it was called. And 512 MB of DRAM would've been a huge luxury in 1998-99. I used 32 MB of memory in my first PC. That PC still runs and I have Mr. Loew's software patches, too. It remains one of my favorite builds. Currently, I am using Windows 7. I call it "the perfected Windows 98"! Thanks for this video.

    • @datavalisofficial8730
      @datavalisofficial8730 Рік тому +5

      My first was win 98 too, not in 1998 but in 2004 lol, i was 6 to 7yo

    • @probablyanon
      @probablyanon Рік тому +7

      win7 gang gigachad

    • @gpubenchmarks7905
      @gpubenchmarks7905 Рік тому +4

      Win 7 was good. 1 of the best os. So beautiful aero glass.

    • @fuyoutubeck
      @fuyoutubeck Рік тому

      windows 7 is awesome guys

    • @rayphoenix7296
      @rayphoenix7296 Рік тому +2

      The first computer my family bought ran Windows 98. It was not the first OS I ever used though. Windows 3.1 was the first OS I ever used. I used it on a computer my father fixed up from his workplace in 1999.

  • @stormykeep9213
    @stormykeep9213 Рік тому +6

    It's fun experimenting with old/new hardware and software in this fashion! I'm just thankful for emulators though like PCEM and 86Box so I can play my old Windows 95/98 games on my modern pc!

  • @spankyham9607
    @spankyham9607 Рік тому +72

    Could be down to the Legacy implementation of the UEFI bios. I run into that problem off and on, and many current motherboard no longer have legacy. Another possibility is that AMD still retains more legacy architectures than Intel is. Hard to know which is the case, but congrats you found something that works non the less.

    • @abrahamdsl
      @abrahamdsl 2 місяці тому

      "and many current motherboard no longer have legacy"
      me with my new Asus TUF Dash f15, this UEFI really.

  • @michaelprox1172
    @michaelprox1172 Рік тому +25

    Next: Can Windows 95 Run on a New Modern PC 2022

  • @agsel
    @agsel Рік тому +20

    HIMEMX /MAX=512M would probably alleviate any memory problems. Also you have already been running MS-DOS in this entire video.

  • @mrdogpoopunleashed
    @mrdogpoopunleashed 10 місяців тому +3

    Loved it! I was really hoping it would work because I used Win98 and old parts are getting harder and harder to find. Thanks for sharing.

  • @mrmosk2011
    @mrmosk2011 Рік тому +15

    Looks like AMD CPU has some good backward compatible capabilities. I am surprised it even worked, because modern PCIe drivers use a lot more memory than the PCI ones in the late 90’s. It also shows how well PCIe is designed for backward compatibility, when the physical bus is completely different, yet the software addressing still shares enough with PCI to let the OS start.

  • @GalaxyCat001
    @GalaxyCat001 Рік тому +6

    There is a setting in the start up config that can tell win98 to limit ram used to 512 or 1 gb etc. I used it on an older Athlon 64 PC to limit ram to 2gb, also had Rob's memory patch on the PC. Ran perfectly. Though the ram limit was not read if starting in safe mode so would need to drop ram to under 2gb if I really needed to go into safe mode which was very rare.

  • @stricikli
    @stricikli Місяць тому +2

    ♡ your channel. You put so much effort in this video. I was looking for some chill content about retro stuff, and boooom found this one

    • @stricikli
      @stricikli Місяць тому +1

      in the end of a tiring day, I needed nothing else but this gem. thank you :)))

  • @gabriellejacquiet9925
    @gabriellejacquiet9925 Рік тому +1

    Great video, really interesting as I - obviously - never tried this myself, I didnt know it was this tedious to get working

  • @skesinis
    @skesinis Рік тому +7

    I’ve tried once back in the late ‘90s to install and run Windows 3.11 on my Windows 95 Pentium 233MHz PC, with 64MB of RAM, split in half to create a 32MB RAMdisk, where I installed the windows 3.11 just for fun, to see how fast they’d boot up. Not only did they run properly (until I exited and I rebooted the PC, which obviously erased them from the RAMdisk), but they booted up in just about 1 sec! I think that the most time of the booting process was for the monitor to switch mode from text to the graphics resolution! 😂 My first ever PC, which I had back in 1991 had Windows 3.0, and it was just a 386sx/16MHz, with 2MB RAM and 40MB hard drive.

    • @wallacegrommet9343
      @wallacegrommet9343 Рік тому +1

      Our office installed Win 3.11 on a large network the same year. Our IT techs were so excited when the 486 Intel cpu was available sometime later!

  • @excess_wrx
    @excess_wrx Рік тому +9

    Awesome video! Amd lives up to the name Advanced Micro Devices for sure!

    • @jevinlownardo8784
      @jevinlownardo8784 Рік тому +1

      And Intel not intelligent enough to teach an old folks some new tricks

  • @johnkovacs1318
    @johnkovacs1318 Рік тому +1

    you are a bracer soul then I, I would have just used virtual machine (and have but nostalgia ran out pretty fast after the initial boot sounds as I didn't think it would work and had nothing planned afterwards lol), as well love the Russian words helps me in my language skills (even if all I can do is see and understand the letters but not what they mean in a word lol). Would like to see more you are still doing these.

  • @chrisrudi7162
    @chrisrudi7162 Рік тому +4

    I have an Intel Core2Duo E8400 with 2x 3 GHz, 1 GB DDR2 800 and Windows 98 SE. Win98 works with GeForce 7900 GT, 2x Voodoo 2 Cards SLI and inofficial Drivers on P35 Chipset. The Voodoo Cards are connected via PCI to PCI Express Bridge.

  • @cristirado_official01
    @cristirado_official01 Рік тому +7

    Try changing Hardrive configuration on BIOS to IDE instead of AHCI (SATA ). A few modern Motherboards can still emulate IDE configurations.

  • @AR2R5
    @AR2R5 Рік тому +4

    WOW!!!
    I just installed a fresh Windows 98 on modern HW few weeks ago and I would love to view this kind of video then. Now I finished and it's not actual for me anymore. Anyway - I felt your struggle during installation. It took me like few nights to install everything. And few more days to install specific PCI card for medical equipment and find drivers. This is why I did need W98. Anyway I looked your video from start to finish. Thanks :)
    P.S.
    My PC was with DDR3 and I had a spare 1GB stick - it was a miracle, but it did show all of 1gb without memory patch. And for GPU I did use "VBEMP 9x Project" GPU drivers. As for the error during normal boot - In my case I found out that Advanced Power Management driver was causing errors. I did uninstall it and disable and it allowed to boot normally. Oh and one more thing - windows 98 DON'T like changing memory stick placement. If you installed on one stick in slot 0 then it should be left like that. This was one issue that I had for a long time. Maybe you can try again if have energy to do it once more :)

  • @yousefslimani99
    @yousefslimani99 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for uploading this video I was really wondering if someone can install windows 9x OSe's on modern computers! So thanks to you I was finally to see the results! Nice video by the way!

  • @armani_raccoon2816
    @armani_raccoon2816 Рік тому +38

    Im a youngin when it comes to PC gaming (born in 04 flip flopped thur PC and console most of my life) and the oldest OS i've ever used is Windows XP but seeing videos like these not only makes me appreciate how far we advanced in tech but also how simple yet cool things were in the past. I want to make an old build some day and have either Windows 95 or 98 on it just to get an idea of what it was like

    • @zepo82
      @zepo82 Рік тому +2

      honestly as an oldy just use a vm to fiddle about and save some money! :D

    • @tejay9416
      @tejay9416 Рік тому +2

      Be glad you werent around for the Windows ME days smfh lmfao

    • @Dave_en
      @Dave_en 4 місяці тому +1

      Windows 98SE was best among 9x series OS but still it lacked lot of things. XP was best among the NT 32 bit systems. Windows 7 is still the best among x64 OS.
      But unfortunately these old OSes are retired and do not support new hardware fully. Lack of drivers makes these brilliant OS unusable nowadays.
      But still I am thinking to install xp for educational purpose for my kids. Atleast they can use old encyclopedia and other useful softwares of XP era. I can generate horoscopes for friends and relatives.

  • @MrCoweater
    @MrCoweater Рік тому +11

    I totally want to see MS Dos 6.22 on a modern PC! :D Although I read somewhere that the last pc with 16bit extensions for running Dos code was an old 775 socket like the Core 2 Duo or Quads.

    • @Mini-z1994
      @Mini-z1994 Рік тому +1

      Well as long as you got some legacy bios functionality an AMD Ryzen system should manage too boot dos still actually, ofc getting things like sound.
      (Due too missing soundblaster compatibility or even pc speakers on motherboards.)
      Resolutions & color modes like cga, ega etc... & game speed working normally is a whole different story.

    • @dylancullar2490
      @dylancullar2490 Рік тому

      I've been playing dos games on freedos from an sd card natively on my modern dell latitude. Had to change a few bios settings but everything works apart from sound. It's a dell latitude E7450.

  • @tdm3bros
    @tdm3bros Рік тому +5

    install first ever windows version

  • @danwake4431
    @danwake4431 Рік тому +2

    i have an ancient Dell Inspiron 7100 laptop that came with XP but for some reason, back in the day I put 2000 Professional on it, and it boots and runs fine to this day. Although I haven't put it on the internet in many years. 2000 is so clean and proper and no nonsense. I wish we had a version like that today.

    • @NUCLEARARMAMENT
      @NUCLEARARMAMENT 9 місяців тому

      I have an old Dell Inspiron 4100 with GeForce 2 Go graphics. I wonder what I can do with it now.

  • @RamtechENG
    @RamtechENG  Рік тому +133

    What is your favorite operating system?

    • @NOTNOTCAT
      @NOTNOTCAT Рік тому +58

      windows xp

    • @Hexavate
      @Hexavate Рік тому +51

      windows 7

    • @Obito_Playzz
      @Obito_Playzz Рік тому +21

      First I was windows xp, then I got used to 7 and then it was really hard to upgrade to 10 but now I can't upgrade to 11 it looks so weiredish

    • @himmelskibet
      @himmelskibet Рік тому +12

      Windows 2000/Windows 7

    • @zushikatetomotoshift1575
      @zushikatetomotoshift1575 Рік тому +20

      Windows 98, XP and 7.

  • @iceManSwag
    @iceManSwag Рік тому +7

    I remember when Windows 2000 came out I installed it on my Windows 98SE machine Pentium 2 450Mhz, 128Mb ram I think I had, CREATIVE RivaTNT 2 ultra 32Mb SDRAM. I was amazed how well the mouse moved & how corporate Windows 2000 felt. I remember it was slower in 3DMark by 1000 points. It was very stable not BSOD's like Windows 98SE.
    I think it would be fun to see Windows 2000 on a modern PC I think most drivers should install.

    • @CotyRiddle
      @CotyRiddle Рік тому +2

      2000 would install and boot fine for the most part even nt 4 would

    • @jondonnelly4831
      @jondonnelly4831 Рік тому +2

      I have done this, it is possible with discreet graphics, sound, possibly lan too and a lot of unofficial updates and patches can even browse the Internet, but it's not as fast as you'd think it would be. XP is a big step forward and in classic theme with 2000 icon icons it's hard to tell them apart. XP is easier to get working and some people still use it today. I look after a school that only just changed out the XP machine this summer. They just didn't give us any bother. Libre office, Gimp, VLC, various browsers and retro games too. Sad to see it go, replaced with 😭 100% locked down windows 10. Where we cant even boot from usb.

    • @iceManSwag
      @iceManSwag Рік тому +1

      @@jondonnelly4831 Windows XP not so challenging to get working like something older as Win 2000 or older. Could off course be still fun even to get XP running.

    • @killanotterinasecond
      @killanotterinasecond Рік тому +1

      Ahh this is nostalgic. I had a Riva TNT 2. My first proper graphics card. I believe it was a Pentium III 450mhz system, although I can't remember how much ram.

    • @MarkWhich
      @MarkWhich 10 місяців тому +1

      Any machine that can install XP can also install 2000, but 2000 is more sensitive to hardware changes, which can suddenly render it unbootable, which is then a time-comsuming process to get working again.

  • @RetroSmoo
    @RetroSmoo Рік тому +9

    For those who want to try win98, i recommend using PCEm or Dosbox Pure

    • @The10021k-guy
      @The10021k-guy Рік тому +2

      I use PCEM for most of my retro needs. I do have a physical windows 98 machine but it's very buggy lol

    • @BackroomsSlayer
      @BackroomsSlayer 7 місяців тому

      I use vmware.

  • @8088argentina
    @8088argentina Рік тому

    Ya me suscribi, estuvo bueno, yo ando con PC más antiguas pero va a ser una prueba pendiente

  • @ManachanJapan
    @ManachanJapan 5 місяців тому +1

    My first own PC was a hand-down from my uncle, running Windows 3.11 in 1998. Not any programs, just some games from floppy disks my older sister copied on her PC (she was already living in her own apartment).
    I learned using computers at a friend's house, whose father worked in IT and thus she had two Windows 95 PC's at home (we met at school when we entered elementary school in 1994). In 5th grade, we had a basic PC course with basic office skills on Windows 98 and our public library opened a PC corner with flatscreen PCs and Windows 98. When 2000 came out, they upgraded to Windows 2000 and kept it. At my high school, we also used Windows 2000.
    My 2nd own PC was from my mother's office when they purchased new PCs. I got it around 2003, running Windows 98. In 2006, I finally convinced my mother to get DSL and that I need a better PC for school, and we purchased a refurbished Win2000 Dell from ebay. A couple of months later my system crashed, and a friend knew someone working for Microsoft and thus could get me a discounted XP disc. Once XP was installed, I could still access the 2000 image saved on the hard drive - but could not boot 2000 for some reason.
    My favorite systems are 2000 and 7.

  • @daveamies5031
    @daveamies5031 Рік тому +5

    I once installed WFW (Windows 3.11) on a Pentium 166 with 128MB of ram and it ran quite well, I was still able to get drivers for everything I needed and with so much ram even things like photoshop launched in under a second, but the only issue was it was a little unstable and would crash occasionally.
    In my opinion Windows 2000 was peak windows, it was the most stable and didn't have any unnecessary bloat, but XPSP3 with the garish blue/green start menu disabled was pretty good too, after that Windows has gone down hill, with stuff being added to make it harder to install/maintain and extra bloat to make it slower.

    • @NomadicDmitry
      @NomadicDmitry 9 місяців тому +1

      I totally agree. Win2K was the best. If only they have went that route without all that gloss - that would be great.

    • @blackterminal
      @blackterminal 8 місяців тому

      Windows 10 is more reliable than 7. The faster boot is great.

    • @daveamies5031
      @daveamies5031 8 місяців тому +1

      @@blackterminal On the same hardware? Often it's newer hardware (especially SSD's vs spinning disks) that give the impression of being faster to boot. I'll bet that Windows 7 and 10 are both painful on a desktop machine from 2000 if they will even run.

  • @londongaz2
    @londongaz2 Рік тому +8

    I remember a similar problem using a VM. I had to use another patch enabling it to run with faster CPUs- then it worked OK. Wish I could remember what it was called!

    • @BackroomsSlayer
      @BackroomsSlayer 7 місяців тому

      in vmware set the hardware settings to 6.5x. In 95 hardware settings higher than 5x cause problems.

  • @danch5802
    @danch5802 Рік тому +2

    Great effort!

  • @johnwilliams8818
    @johnwilliams8818 Рік тому +2

    Curious if you tried to get W98 to install modern hardware drivers? Or perhaps try using modern Windows basic drivers? The Device Manager "might" recognize the inf files and ? Now I want to try it 🤣 I have my CDs "I think" back to W95... I wonder if I could clone it onto my SDXC card and run it on windows 11 under compatibility?

  • @greatkingrat
    @greatkingrat Рік тому +8

    My working career included selling Windows 98SE gaming PCs (voodoo etc) so most of the fixes I was aware of. I must say, I don’t miss the old PC days. I am glad we have what we have now.

  • @CharlesVanNoland
    @CharlesVanNoland Рік тому +4

    RIP Rudolph. A true hero.

  • @vidmantaskvidmantask7134
    @vidmantaskvidmantask7134 Рік тому +1

    Your videos are amazing and creative.

  • @mumblety
    @mumblety Рік тому +3

    Installing MS-DOS should be a lot easier. I managed to install it on a fairly modern laptop mostly without trouble. The main issues that I ran into was driver issues.

    • @MarkWhich
      @MarkWhich 10 місяців тому

      Your better off installing FreeDOS, It's completely free and compatible with nearly all old MS-DOS software, and it supports modern things like USB Mouse, USB Keyboard, onboard Audio, NTFS File systems, larger amounts of RAM, etc etc.

  • @kght222
    @kght222 Рік тому +3

    you just did install ms-dos on a modern computer. windows 98 and windows 95 are just gui wrappers on dos with some bells and whistles. all you have to do is copy the dos directory to the hdd, "downboot" into dos (or create a boot manager that shortcuts without booting windows) and poof, you are in dos. dos 6.22 is so easy to install that all you need is a boot disk with the sys program on it and a harddrive with the dos directory on it.

  • @agnostik532
    @agnostik532 Рік тому +1

    really good video and its so fun lol

  • @machdaddy6451
    @machdaddy6451 Рік тому +1

    My first thought when I saw this is that you're going to have driver issues. Massive respect for your persistance!

  • @jondonnelly4831
    @jondonnelly4831 Рік тому +7

    Core 2 duo 8400 , G31 + radeon x850 XT PE 1GB Ram DDR2 + SB Live is what I use and runs flawless. With a 3dmark 2001 score of 40k. Tis fast is really unnecessary but fun :D An 8800 GT might work with modded drivers and 4GHz overclock on cpu to go ballastic fast.

    • @jondonnelly4831
      @jondonnelly4831 Рік тому

      Faster rig in progress e8600 to get the higher multiplier, ddr3, 7800GTO comming in the post. 8800gt didn't work for me with ME and dosbox distro dual boot. That's the final form, probably. I have to use dosbox distro as machine is so fuking fast games do weird things. Dosbox distro boots from usb stick on top on tiny core Linux which is hidden away. Works pretty nice. Then again it also kinda makes all retro dos machines completly pointless.

    • @Brunorego80
      @Brunorego80 Рік тому +2

      I have a Core 2 Quad Q8200 with 4GB RAM, Geforce 7900GTO PCI-E (256MB RAM) with the Tweaked Unofficial NVIDIA Display Driver 82.69 and an Audigy 2. The Geforce 8000 series and later are not supported, unfortunately. In terms of CPU, there are a lot more possibilities.

    • @Ravensfan-qx5pc
      @Ravensfan-qx5pc Рік тому +1

      It cool that you got Win 98 to work on 2006 era hardware. Building an "overkill" Win 98 PC is fun if you can get cheap parts. I might give that a shot myself. I have a few socket 775 machines collecting dust.

    • @Ravensfan-qx5pc
      @Ravensfan-qx5pc Рік тому

      ​@@Brunorego80 I am curious on well it can game, or rather what the most recent game it can play and run smoothly. Like, I tried running Halo CE on my rig and it was pretty much a slide show. Specs:
      Pentium 4 - 1.5 GHZ
      RAM - DDR1 512 MB
      GPU - Geforce 6800 OC 256 MB
      30 GB PATA HDD

    • @Ravensfan-qx5pc
      @Ravensfan-qx5pc Рік тому

      Call of Duty 1 play fine w/o any issues.
      Call of Duty 2 would attempt to run, but throws up an error saying it needs Win 2000 or newer.

  • @See_Sharp
    @See_Sharp Рік тому +9

    If you can make your own drivers then you could run Win98 on any modern PC.

  • @d3mist0clesgee12
    @d3mist0clesgee12 Рік тому +1

    Nice video, brings bacc memories

  • @myname604
    @myname604 7 місяців тому +2

    I used to mod my Win98se so I could run it forever. I lost it and didn't have a back up of my years of work modding the system. Back ups were complicated because of migration to new PC's as I moved along through time. I had added large drive support, NTFS support among other file systems, and even had it running XP SP3 software including .NET framework.
    With Windows 98 SE anything is possible.
    Some of the secrets starts with DOS, I had to use parts of DOS 5, 6 , windows 98 base DOS and windows ME secret non-interface DOS 8 components and utilities to enable a broad range of of functions and abilities.
    I installed many DOS based drivers under the hood to achieve a greater level of system management as well as reducing system crashes with windows only based drivers.
    The root level of control is amazing and the performance makes the lastest gaming windows 11 system look like a 286 from 1989.
    Like I said, it was so many mods and so many complexities I lost track of the what I did and the and software I needed. The loss was terminal. It was years of f'n around and keeping up with changes in the world of PC tech and software.

  • @DarkAlaranth
    @DarkAlaranth Рік тому +5

    Might be worth disabling the extra CPU Cores, pretty sure Win98 only handled single core CPUs, you were expected to use NT4.0/2000 for multicore CPUs

    • @bdhale34
      @bdhale34 Рік тому +1

      NT 4.0 Workstation supported 2, Server supported 4 and Enterprise supported 8. And it wasn't multicore it was multi-cpu, my NT 4.0 WS CD says 1-2 CPU x86,alpha,mips.

    • @jedixo
      @jedixo Рік тому

      @@bdhale34 NT 3.x also supported multiprocessors. workstation 2 & server 4 respectively.

  • @lordrefrigeratorintercoole288
    @lordrefrigeratorintercoole288 Рік тому +4

    imagine being Windows98 and one day waking up on a PC with 64Gb of DDR5Rams and an RTX4090.
    i can see Win98 looking around and screaming 😱 😱

    • @katrinabryce
      @katrinabryce Рік тому

      A 3950X is has 64MB of L3 Cache, which is way more than most computers had RAM back in the days. So you wouldn't actually need to use the RAM at all for most things.

  • @kght222
    @kght222 Рік тому +2

    even back in 1999 the computer store i worked at didn't install windows from a cd or disks, we put a backup copy of the cabs on the computer anyway, we installed from the hdd. our perspective was that we were going to have a backup of the windows cabs on the drive anyway, why waste time.

  • @jefft78
    @jefft78 6 місяців тому

    Pretty cool, reminds me of my dose days from the 90s on my 286

  • @stefhannington2218
    @stefhannington2218 Рік тому +5

    Would you mind running ibm's OS/2 Warp on a modern computer and surf the Internet etc? 🤔😂

    • @jondonnelly4831
      @jondonnelly4831 Рік тому

      Hmm it will connect to the Web, but the browsers available wont render modern Web pages most likely. Windows 2000 with kernel ex and blackwingcats updates and I think a custom compiled ghecko based browser worked quite well. UA-cam worked, if he can find a modern browser for it it will would be cool as fuk. I'm so bored I might even try it myself.

  • @Magnus_Loov
    @Magnus_Loov Рік тому +5

    This makes you appreciate that we have virtual machines.

    • @remo27
      @remo27 Рік тому +2

      While I appreciate that he chose to do this the hard way, I , myself , was thinking why bother? Even if you can get it to work, look how much you have to cripple the modern machine in order to let it run. Windows 98 was made at a time when 256 megabytes was alot of system memory. Your processor would be single core and neither AMD nor Intel had even yet hit the 1Ghz mark as far as clockspeed (though that would come pretty soon). MMX was still only 3 or 4 years old at the time. The internet was still mostly accessed via telephone dial-up, and speeds were such that even News sites often had only a few very grainy and often black and white videos and a few dozen mostly small .jpg pics that would often take a minute or so to download themselves. A modern machine has to sacrifice pretty much all its computing power and memory and run special, hacked or hacked together drivers to even get the system to limp along, so why bother? Just use a VM if you like the OS's features or interface so much. Ironically, Windows 98 in a VM actually runs BETTER than it runs natively anymore, plus you can still use the rest of your machine.

    • @Magnus_Loov
      @Magnus_Loov Рік тому +1

      @@remo27 To make some use of the modern hardware, I think Windows XP 64 would have been the earliest OS. But it, if I remember correctly, had quite a few problems with drivers and app compatibility that Windows Vista 64 for some strange reason didn't have. So maybe you would have had to go all the way to 'Windows Vista. And that, frankly, isn't so far off from current systems.
      And you would still be limited by the app support for browsers and and other apps. And probably drivers too.
      No reason not to go virtual for practical usage.
      But only for fun some people do installs like this.
      It is kind of the same thing with people who install old OS:es on their own assembled hardware. Like a "Dos-gaming" Pc with a 486 with Vesa Local bus that I saw somebody building. Maybe with the exception for some sound card drivers for external midi all that can probably be done in a VM. Probably with less energy expending too since newer hardware is more efficient and will use next to nothing when running these old OS:es and programs.

    • @nicolasdecondorcet2431
      @nicolasdecondorcet2431 Рік тому

      @@Magnus_Loov If I have 4GB RAM and Win 11, can I install virtual machine with Windows XP and give them 0,5GB or it will be problem for Windows 11? Because 4GB is a minimum requirement for Win 11.

    • @Magnus_Loov
      @Magnus_Loov Рік тому

      @@nicolasdecondorcet2431 I don't know. It sounds very restrictive with 4 GB to me. It probably will use the pagefile a lot (swapping between RAM and the harddrive. If you don't have an SSD then it will be really slow, if it runs at all).

    • @nicolasdecondorcet2431
      @nicolasdecondorcet2431 Рік тому

      @@Magnus_Loov I have 512GB SSD. Can give 256MB memory for virtual XP. It schould be enough. Perhaps, virtual need more.
      But is possible to install virtual XP in 32 Bit on Win 11? Isn't any restrictions? Microsoft would like earlier blocked that to force buying a new system or computers.

  • @casualretrocollector
    @casualretrocollector 20 днів тому

    My Lenovo T420 runs / dual boots win10/DOS/Windows 98 very well. I am using the vbe9x display drivers and the walters world intel high definition audio driver and I can play all my 90s windows games on it.

  • @centurion8446
    @centurion8446 6 місяців тому

    Very helpful...

  • @alextg23
    @alextg23 2 місяці тому +3

    "2024"
    Video uploaded in: 2022 👁👄👁

  • @halabardsznept3897
    @halabardsznept3897 Рік тому

    Thank You 💚

  • @BackroomsSlayer
    @BackroomsSlayer 7 місяців тому +1

    The maximum ram that Windows 98 can boot with is 1 gig. If you add more, you will be stuck in a boot loop and this is after the 512mb limitation patch is applied. 1gig is a hard limit for 98, also there are processor speed limitations as well that may cause system instabilties and crashes if the speed is too fast and it may prevent booting. a similar cpu speed issue exists on 95 as well as the most recent processor it will run on is a pentium pro.

    • @Dave_en
      @Dave_en 4 місяці тому +1

      I had 1GHz VIA C3 processor which was equivalent to Pentium 3 and 256MB RAM. Windows 95c installed fine and used the drivers meant for windows 98SE.
      Maybe some architectural problems in later Intel CPUs.

  • @NomadicDmitry
    @NomadicDmitry Рік тому +3

    I've tried Windows 98 on Core 2 Quad and was able to achieve it in Safe Mode. It's not as modern as that PC, though.
    Long story short. Better to grab an old latop for Windows 98 instead of trying all that.

    • @itmkoeln
      @itmkoeln Рік тому +1

      I did 9x (ME) on a 4Core Dual Vista which is by design VIA PT880 chipset the newest board that has drivers for 9x. And it supports upto a E6600 and E7600 Core 2 Duo (which both should make for the fastest 9x CPU as C2Ds have a higher per Clock Performance on single core than any of the Pentium 4 and D.) after all the 7600 was built on the newer Wolfdale/Penryn node.
      Per Core the performance in that Generation was higher on Dual Cores than on Quad Cores (after all the Core 2 Quads were glued together Core 2 duo). Making the E8600 and any 8500 and 8400 that could be clocked at 8600 speeds the fastest LGA775 in Single Core Performance.

    • @BackroomsSlayer
      @BackroomsSlayer 7 місяців тому

      It only sees one core. The other will never be used.

  • @Greecefinalbossroblox
    @Greecefinalbossroblox Рік тому +3

    Next: can windows 98 work on a toaster?

  • @nuherbleath461
    @nuherbleath461 Рік тому +2

    4:00 if you type in /L at the startup prompt you can enable a Logitech mouse driver. This stops the weird mouse movement

    • @ferry602
      @ferry602 Рік тому

      Can't you define mouse driver in the config.sys file?

  • @shorty808100
    @shorty808100 Рік тому +1

    i miss windows 98 was one of my all time favorite windows versions, something i don't miss is MS DOS being the main OS of a pc

  • @Kianmartinmira478
    @Kianmartinmira478 Рік тому +3

    *" hey that's a cool pc what games does it run?"* pinball..

  • @josephaltman460
    @josephaltman460 Рік тому +3

    Imagine trying to run a modern PC with 512MB! 😆 🤣 😂 😹

    • @Winnetou17
      @Winnetou17 Рік тому

      You can do that with Linux

  • @hamidjalalishakib397
    @hamidjalalishakib397 Рік тому +2

    Respect for the effort

  • @doctorletsplay
    @doctorletsplay Рік тому +2

    11:58 If I recall correctly Windows 98 didn't support more than 1 core by Default. This was updated in Windows 2000

  • @el_dallasyt
    @el_dallasyt Рік тому +3

    The subtitles:windows 38

    • @alextg23
      @alextg23 2 місяці тому +1

      1938😂

  • @World_of_OSes
    @World_of_OSes Рік тому +3

    Easier just to use VMware.

    • @jestersb-
      @jestersb- Рік тому +1

      but thats really cool to have a real pc running it

  • @Kestasification
    @Kestasification Рік тому +1

    Is this the end? - Of course not.😁 love it

  • @jestersb-
    @jestersb- Рік тому +2

    this is cool!

  • @Hanedan1912
    @Hanedan1912 Рік тому +1

    This is awesome.

  • @heroknaderi
    @heroknaderi 10 місяців тому +2

    Very cool 😎

  • @jangelelcangry
    @jangelelcangry Рік тому

    I've Installed windows 98 and mE on an X79 board.
    You need a 1G stick to make it work, but it won't detect any GPU you install on it. It will only detect it as the generic display driver.
    On the other hand, LGA 1155 seems to work fine if you have at least 2-3 PCI slots.

  • @konsolendoc
    @konsolendoc Рік тому +1

    Cool Video

  • @brucecox5884
    @brucecox5884 Рік тому +1

    interesting video, maybe tr 98 Second edition? also try in a Virtual machine

  • @idealpersonal1231
    @idealpersonal1231 Рік тому +1

    Great!

  • @gentuxable
    @gentuxable 7 місяців тому

    Win98 shows each display output as separate graphics card. My single 9550, which is supported under 98, shows two cards in device manager.

  • @stupidoldgamer
    @stupidoldgamer Рік тому

    You should really look into installing on a modern SOC like a PI or the like. This would Pique my interest.

  • @tuworlds
    @tuworlds Рік тому +1

    don't. ask me why but. i really love these videos that. you do and. the amount of effort that you put in them plus that i was using computers back then haahaahahha i bet windows won't work on a zx spectrum yep that's were i started
    super great vid. i love. it

  • @jasonz4545
    @jasonz4545 Рік тому +2

    Great experiment!what a mad scientist😆

  • @ThatTechChannel101
    @ThatTechChannel101 Рік тому +2

    man's answering all the hard questions for us lol

  • @subscribetoexentix69420
    @subscribetoexentix69420 10 місяців тому +2

    I subscribed

  • @robinwilliams5348
    @robinwilliams5348 Рік тому +2

    I wonder if NT could see the other cores as second CPUs as I think that was when they introduced multi-cpu support

    • @zachstoltenburg5150
      @zachstoltenburg5150 Рік тому +2

      nt will see multiple cores yes

    • @itmkoeln
      @itmkoeln Рік тому

      9x by design is single core. Which means that something like a C2D 6600 (Conroe) or 7600 (Wolfdale) on an Asrock 4CoreDualVsta (if you could find one as boards like these are rare) I got a decent 4CD last year locally in Hamburg. Mine came with basically initial bios and a low spec Pentium D. One bios flash and 2€ spend on eBay later I have the C2D e7600, the newest arch chip that is according to AsRock supported on the 4CD
      I chose the 7600 over the 6600 because the ipc on the Wolfdale chip should be better than on that Conroe

  • @itmkoeln
    @itmkoeln Рік тому +1

    2GB is quite much for 9x.. I tried building a 9x on a 4Core Dual VSTA which should be the newest board that has drivers on 9x. Was not able to go beyond 2x512 MB there. At least so far

  • @fra4455
    @fra4455 9 місяців тому

    Great👍

  • @mikeg2491
    @mikeg2491 Рік тому

    What I wouldn’t give to run 98 or XP on modern hardware and have seemingly lightning quick speed on every app you throw at it. It is still bizarre to me in 2022 you can open up something as simple as Office on a modern fast machine and it still takes a good 10-15 seconds to load, even longer sometimes on other similar productivity apps.

  • @MetalMe55iah
    @MetalMe55iah Рік тому +1

    i remember working as a kid in my uncles computer shop i had putting rigs together and installing windows 98 done in about half an hour fun times

  • @rarapas
    @rarapas Рік тому +1

    Commander Keen is an MS-DOS game. You can't run any proper DirectX etc game in 9x without graphics drivers, and for nVidia, the last known cards that do, with modded drivers, is the Geforce 7xxx series. 6xxx has proper drivers. And even with that, for a PCI-E card, to get the driver working, you need to install the driver and afterwards remove the "standard VGA driver" from the devices list on 98. The newest PC I successfully had a proper Win98 installation (with chipset/gpu and on a SATA drive in legacy mode) was a s775 with E8xxx CPU and a 6800 pci-e GPU. For sound I went with SB-Live! 1024 as I wanted DOS emulation :) Also, there's a DOS memory manager that actually replaces himem and limits the RAM, no need for the patch with that one. (Mr Loew 's work hadn't been released freely yet)

    • @elbmw
      @elbmw Рік тому

      Maybe I misunderstood your comment but I can run pretty much any DOS game on my Win10 PC through DOSBox. I do remember that I had to change some settings in the DOSBox config file to slow the speed of the game and the size of the window to ran maximised in one of my 23" monitors. BTW this is on an overclocked Sapphire Radeon RX590 Nitro+ Special Edition running the latest compatible Radeon drivers with Adrenaline.

    • @rarapas
      @rarapas Рік тому +1

      @@elbmw MS-DOS games do work as they don't rely on Win98, hence they don't need video drivers..
      Contrary, proper windows games, especially directX games on windows 98 require drivers to function :)

    • @BackroomsSlayer
      @BackroomsSlayer 7 місяців тому

      I installed directx 9.0c in 98 successfully.

  • @davechristoffersen6633
    @davechristoffersen6633 11 місяців тому

    Good effort but i believe you wont find any gpu drivers for win98 for your graphics card. As others have said, best to go virtualization route like unraid.

  • @MGRracing
    @MGRracing 5 місяців тому +1

    I installed win98 on an i5-750 with 128GB ssd and pcie.
    I unpacked the win98 SE service pack 3 iso on to another partition.
    I booted with Windows 2000 pro CD and booted to dos without setting up Windows 2k.
    I then ran the Windows 98 setup from the SSD and it took less than 5 minutes to install and takes less than 5 seconds to boot 😅

  • @DS-vb1ms
    @DS-vb1ms День тому

    If you use sci tech it will apply better drivers for graphics which could resolve the artifact issue

  • @wujing14001
    @wujing14001 Рік тому +1

    thank you for try to install windows98 on new hardware.

  • @O_mores
    @O_mores Рік тому +2

    I can run Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and 98/Me on my Ryzen 3900X machine with 64/32GB RAM. (not all accessible of course, but the amount of physical RAM doesn't matter as long you use builtin limiter in system.ini ) For Windows 3.11 you can find a video on my channel, more to come soon. On this very compatible Ryzen 3900X machine machine I have I got the "vcache" error when I upgraded the BIOS. So there something going on at the BIOS level...

  • @yussef961
    @yussef961 5 місяців тому +1

    i tried it but just couldn't find a driver that worked for my lan card .the pc is from 2015
    could find Realtek drivers for 98 but it would fail to start etc
    didn't want to bother i bought a laptop from ebay for 90 euros
    already with 98 in it
    i have been using ms dos 6.22 and win 98 on an older pc and had no issue cause it was from this time

  • @Mimikyu949
    @Mimikyu949 4 місяці тому

    Hey man! Im trying to install windows 98 on a dell optiplex 755 with an SSD. It also has 4GB ram. After running scan disc, it just reboots. Is there any way to prevent that?

  • @brianbidner5701
    @brianbidner5701 2 місяці тому

    you can put the drivers from freedos for the cd too boot on the system

  • @thecount25
    @thecount25 4 місяці тому

    Just get a PCIe to PCI adapter and use an old video card some are compatible I think S3 maybe?

  • @JarppaGuru
    @JarppaGuru 3 місяці тому

    yes if computer parts are backward compatible and new 1500 buck gpu run 800x600 without need any drivers than what windows give. mean what 98 installation have. next is if cpu has same instruction that back then. mother board bropably same. so it run AND blazing FAST

  • @whiteshipcentral4767
    @whiteshipcentral4767 11 місяців тому

    The reason why you're getting an "NTLDR is missing" error message when upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 is quite simple, Windows 2000 is a version of Windows that Microsoft made after they made Windows NT so it uses the same technology in it's Kernel, Windows 98 is a DOS based Operating System like the other versions of Windows that came before it, Windows 2000 is an NT based Operating System, that's why you needed to do a complete clean install rather than an upgrade...

  • @elbmw
    @elbmw Рік тому

    You may have more success installing Win98 on a VM. I recall installing DOS many years ago on a VM running XP as the host OS, but that was about 20 years ago so you may still have some driver issues but by using a VM you could allocate 512MB as RAM and at least you would eliminate that particular issue.
    None the less an interesting video.