Anyone out there still using it? I have 3 pcs in my house. My personal laptop: win xp sp2 core 2 duo widescreen... a dell desktop: 8400 3.0 p4HT xp sp2.. and a dell 450 p2 with windows 98se. I have a wireless card on it and mcafee that comes free with comcast. the only pc that i have it on (norton everything else)
and i runs well for surfing and email when the other one is in use. i tried xp on it and it runs like garbage.
anyone do the same thing with an old junker?
2007-01-25 10:22:31 · 11 answers · asked by Rusty Caldwell 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
yeah it has 12gb and 128ram. the disk was spinning constantly
2007-01-25 10:36:14 · update #1
your problem is that you don't meet the minimal specifications for such operating system... and much less the recommended... windows xp runs OK in a PIII but not on a PII, with at least 256 Mb RAM and good amount of free disk space... anything less on RAM and the disk is going to work like crazy, slowing down your experience...and Win98 is well known for taking forever to boot up, specially in an anti-virus like Norton is running in it...or any other program that loads up at boot up... just reformat using win98 because to try and add ore memory to that PC is not even going to be worth the effort. Those memory chips (EDO RAM) are to be installed in pairs, and are normally 64Mb really hard to find, and when you do... normally expensive for what they are...
2007-01-25 10:34:04 · answer #1 · answered by MexicanCurious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
Starting from a humble AMD386 DL 40Mhz it has windows 95 and broadband!. Plenty of Windows 98 computers up and running However the main systems I had to migrate to Windows 2000 as I was still uncomfortable with XP at the time now however I do have One of four with XP Pro and One with the XP 64-Bit edition however its very hard to use since drivers are rare!.
The 386 form AMD Runs faster than the Intel we have of the same speed, I have even run command & Conquer the original in a dos and it runs be a little slow. However the real gems are some lovely 486/66 with ATI Mach 32 cards. Lovely they play Riven in Windows 95/98SE.
2007-01-25 18:32:28 · answer #2 · answered by drchristianmd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My suggestion to you is just maintain the MS Win 98 on your existing three (3) desktops. Try not to upgrade it because it is nearing it's end of usage. I had a Compaq Presario 3000 PC with Pentium III running Win 98 and I upgraded the memory to 256MB, changed the Hard Drive to 60GB, upgraded the OS from Win 98 to Win 2k to finally Win XP Home. After spending all that the motherboard failed. In the end I bought a new PC. Just use it until it expires. Saves you money, time and effort. Hope I help. Good luck!
2007-01-25 18:34:04 · answer #3 · answered by George S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I grab a FREE http://pclinuxos.com and burn it to CDrom, then insert in the CDrom, and reboot.
Be patient, but, once it is running, the hardware will run smoother than it has ever run before, with full and true multi-processing, multi-tasking, on upto 20 Desktop environments, and it comes with 1900 games, programs, applications.
Have about 30 of the old boxes, mostly curbside donations. Great as game servers for Quake, and http://ipcop.org boxes.
Good for email, most editing tasks.
2007-01-25 18:37:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we technically have three also 1 xp 2.4 ghz 2 98se's 500mhz 1 has 192 mbs of ram and the other 256 and the 192 is 100k times faster visually than the one with 256, i am thinking the hd on that one is going tho lol
2007-01-25 18:28:46 · answer #5 · answered by i see you all 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For many uses, Windows 98 still outclasses XP. The problem is when I change harddrives, Microsoft is so concerned with it's bottom line, it stopped providing the patches.
That put a cramp in how we use it.
2007-01-25 18:29:05 · answer #6 · answered by Jeff H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know... the only thing I can say at this point with the information you've given is that it's the browser's fault. Try Mozilla Firefox. If you give some more info, I might be able to help you.
2007-01-25 18:30:30 · answer #7 · answered by Cheese Lover Bob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've got an old junker that used to run 98 se, its my new linux box. Trying to learn Open Suse just for the heck of it. I highly suggest it if you want to learn linux.
2007-01-25 18:27:30 · answer #8 · answered by Firedog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i set up my windows 98 se with a wireless card so i can stream files from my xp computer, i can play my music and videos. the computer is connected to my tv and my surround sound.
2007-01-25 18:30:33 · answer #9 · answered by Smithers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep 98 on it, it seams it can't handle xp unless you add more ram.
2007-01-25 18:29:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋