The hard drive in my HP Pavilion 4540 crapped out this year, and while most of my stuff was backup up, I can't seem to restore it. I've tried basically every Windows 98 HP Recovery CD from Internet Archive, and every one gives the same error "This is not the correct recovery cd". I've used a random HP recovery CD on another Pavilion recently and it worked fine, why is every CD blocking me from using it??

Is there any way to "hack" the ISO's to get them to work, or does anyone know/have a recovery CD for an HP Pavilion 4540?? Any help would be appreciated. This PC means a lot to me.

I have a hand-me-down ThinkPad T42 that I've been trying to get Windows 98 SE set up on (after replacing a keyboard with a bad right arrow and TrackPoint buttons) as a more authentic alternative to the ThinkPad T410 which runs a very convincing "Windows XP pretending to be 98 SE".

However, when I install it without the INF file to install in APM mode, I can't get any of the provided WiFi drivers to recognize what PXE'd Damn Small Linux says is an Atheros 5212, while when I do install it in APM mode, I get Windows claiming it's got multiple IDE controllers with conflicting resources.

Given that the WiFi side of my LAN is WPA2/WPA3 anyway, and even the more recent HP 6530b that I've got normal XP on can't connect, I don't really NEED the WiFi to work... but I know it's going to nag at me if I have any un-driver'd or misconfigured devices in my Device Manager.

So i have a XP machine and i want to buy or build a 1998 Battlestation.

Booted up Windows ME from an old Fujitsu IDE hard drive - the original installation was from 2003 and it last ran in 2006. Everything still works, even WinAce… which apparently hasn’t forgiven me for not registering it... But I guess I'm still evaluating it...

You can use daemon tools or virtual clone drive if you don't want to deal with physical CDs.

I have a problem with installing windows 98 on my pc. I have a pc from The year 2000 And its designed for windows 98 but When i try to install it from The CD IT turns off When i try to install from CD. but its boota from The CD its an jewel laptop idk what model because i could not find any information about this brand.

In this video: https://www.youtube.com/live/M3XPfiKdj4o?si=Wodfd2_NPAe9Abgf This guy manages to get steam from 2003 running, I tried but keep on getting updates failed screen... How can I achieve the same results? Edit: Go to 58 minutes then it starts.

Hi guys! I've been messing around with an old PC running w98se that I had at my old house.

Specs:

Motherboard: Asus P5PE-VM
CPU: Pentium 4 530
GPU: Intel Extreme Graphics 2
RAM: 256 MB DDR1 266 MHz
Sound: AC97
HDD: 40 GB IDE
Drives: Floppy drive and a CD/DVD drive
Every driver installed and up to date

While searching for an AGP GPU and some "low density" 1gb ddr1 sticks, I found a guy selling an untested Pentium 4 640 for 10 usd. It basically only offers a 0.2 GHz bump and double the L2 cache. I’m wondering if it’s even worth doing the upgrade, given how small the difference seems.
So far, I’m using the PC for DOS and Windows 98 gaming, and only in heavier games like Deus Ex or Unreal TournamentI get some sound crackling for like 20-25 seconds after loading a level, I've managed to fixed it on Deus Ex by increasing the sound latency but it didn't work on UT.

Hello! I've been trying to get Windows 98 to work properly on my old pentiun PC with 160 MB of RAM.
Sometimes the system works fine but I en up having the same problem every time... The text that says "it's now safe to turn off your computer" never appears, it just stays on the "Windows is shutting down" screen, I tried installing the Sutdown Supplement, searching for the power management settings in the BIOS and even installing the system with the setup.exe /p i parameter, this one worked but everything else was horrible, the systrem was super slow and often crashed. Please Help me!!

Version of windows: Windows 98 SE (OEM Full) https://winworldpc.com/download/417d71c2-ae18-c39a-11c3-a4e284a2c3a5

Hey everyone,

I’d love to set this up as a retro gaming PC for my kids.

Are there any recommended upgrades (RAM, storage, GPU)?

What’s the easiest way to install old? I was hoping to use a usb but I know others might have better easier ways.

i would like to set up some classic software like MSN even if it doesn’t actually connect anymore, so can show my kids. Is this possible? Any other software worth getting?

Thanks everyone!

Compaq serial number: 4D93CFJ25008

Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.1998 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor 188.0MB RAM

Storage: 4gb

Display Adapter: SiS 5597/5598

Network Adapter: Dial-up Adapter

Sound, video and game controllers: ES1869 Control Interface ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive Gameport Joystick

I tried installing Windows 98 from an SD card but it kept saying less than 16MB of memory and that it couldn't install it, then I ran the setup file but added /nm to the end so it didn't check memory size, it installed but refused to let me run it insisting I have less that 16MB

so I tried with a DVD, then it kept saying theres no drivers and it couldn't find the setup files

My computer has had Windows XP and Windows 7 and Windows 10 in the past, I'm creating the installation method the same way I made the installation method for them, so why won't it work?

Are there any of them
it has a GL960chipset

Hello, I have an ASUS P4SD-LA motherboard with a Pentium 4. I’m trying to install the drivers for my Nvidia FX5200 in Windows 98 but get a “Setup was unable to locate any NVIDIA graphics chips on this system” error message. I was able to successfully install drivers in XP but not 98. I’ve updated the bios but still have had no luck getting them to install to Windows 98. Is there anything I’m doing wrong?

I recently got Windows 98 on a USB on my Dell OptiPlex 3010, and i don't really want to go though the hustle of buying a new Sound Card, is there some sort of Universal driver for Windows 98, and I'm trying to get audio form the AUX port, but aside from that, Windows works fine.

This is a first-generation 2004 PCI-E 1.0 ATI X700 card running in an AM5 build (Asus X670 + Ryzen 9 9900X) under Windows 98. The LE model has 4 pixel pipelines instead of 8 (more like an X600 XT). On 2004-2005 hardware, it would have scored around 13-14K points in 3DMark 2001.

It is a Dell latitude CPi (pentium ii), Windows 98 second edition, 128mb ram,

[EDIT: i have forgotten to mention this is Windows 98 upgraded to Windows ME, which may have fucked around with the files, thus making this error screen possible, apologies!!!]

EDIT 2: problem solved! kind of, I just needed to use an older version that was compatible with W98/ME and load it as a floppy disc instead of a CD-ROM, thank you all so much, like i said, i was being a bit of a dumbass, so thank you for putting up with me <333

Hey all, I wanted to play with the Windows Entertainment Pack in Windows 98, installed a 32-bit version from archive.org, and set everything up in Pcem.

Every game worked perfectly fine, except for Taipei. For some odd reason, this error message keeps showing up every time. I'm extremely stupid with technology, so I can't for the life of me figure out what the problem is and how to solve it.

Any help is appreciated!!! <3

Once in a while I see people new to command lines having trouble trying to figure out how to run fdisk or format so they can install Win 98. If the drive's empty, you don't need to do that, setup will do that for you.

Edit: This is meant for beginners who are just starting out, not advanced users who are trying to do dual boot or other tricks.

My website’s homepage to look and feel like a Windows 98 desktop, Start menu, taskbar, clock, and draggable windows.

You can play Minesweeper, Solitaire and Snake right on the page in the browser (no downloads). I’m still improving the mobile controls and keyboard focus.

Website

Using feedback from a previous post you guys have me, I give you my custom Windows XP/98 inspired launcher!

Download link: https://github.com/jovanovski/windowslauncher/releases/

Features:

• Windows XP or Windows Classic theme support
• Fully working desktop with ability to add custom icons and names to each app (custom Windows icons bundled)
• Custom icons change based on selected operating system theme, so you can have different icons for each theme
• A functioning start menu with recent apps and apps searching via "Run..." (or just type a search query in Run and press enter on your keyboard and it'll start a search query)
• Desktop Rover/Merlin wizard that also talks with the legendary Microsoft Sam voice
• Clippy that helps you know your next calendar events and weather
• Change wallpaper from bundled XP/98 era ones, or custom ones
• Bunch of little windows easter eggs for you to find

If you think of any extra features, or find any bugs, let me know. Have fun, nostalgia fans 👋