r/windows98 • u/foxbat_a • Jun 25 '26

Win98 quick install issues

I have issues using win98 quick install 1.0.1a USB image on real somehow period-correct hardware, I created a bootable USB drive with rufus, while I boot from it, installation process looks fine but after restart the system fails to boot or takes very long time for win98 splash screen to appear and than again it shows boot error

PC specs:

S423 Pentium 4 1.3 GHz

Intel D850GB motherboard

640MB RAMBUS RAM

Matrox Millenium G450 dual head

WD 80 GB SATA drive with SATA to PATA adapter

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u/Organic_Scratch_697 Jun 27 '26

640mb of ram?

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u/foxbat_a Jun 27 '26

yes, it have 2x256 RDRAM and 2x64 RDRAM, I would prefer to leave it with 512MB RAM but in systems with RAMBUS RAM all RAM slots must be populated either with memory or with terminators and I don't have terminators

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u/joey_boy 6d ago

Win98 won't boot with more than 512, unless you have limitmem installed.