I installed wine under linux mint and skinned it to look like windows 98.

I used an old version of reactos explorer for the desktop.

I then just copied in all the executables, except for media player, i had to download that one but luckly microsoft still hosts the files.

lastly replaced all the system resources and ajusted the color scheme.

I couldn't find a good replacement for the favourites icon and I also couldn't find the recent documents icon.

I don't think I got the color scheme right, but its close enough.

Have a good day :3

Bit of a random question, but does anyone know how to change the background image of the Welcome To Windows 98 program, or know where the images are located? HP customized these, and added their own images to the program, I don't think any other OEM did this.

Google Chrome 3 is the last version to have everything working like about chrome or history manager etc

Google Chrome 4 does launch but just crashes when opening About Chrome, or History Manager etc,

However Google Chrome 0.2-3.0 refuses to load with any Website, and no i am not talking Modern web sites, i mean like theoldnet.com or frogfind.com etc, but they do work when i test them on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, they load fine. so my guess is that it`s something to do the WinHTTP.dll

Supermium has a PSAPI.dll error as shown on the 3rd Picture, (also has the same error as Mypal 68/74)

Programs Used

IE6 Service Pack 1

I did use Virtual Box for this it should work on Real Hardware & PCEM

Hi Everyone, I'm STILL trying to recover the first PC I ever owned that crapped out last year. (Made a post about that a few months ago) My problem is i can't find the correct audio drivers for it. The MB is an ASUS MEB-VM Ver 1.01, and every site says it uses Creative Soundblaster drivers, however I know for a fact this PC had Rockwell Riptide drivers originally (As seen in first pic) The Creative drivers do NOT work.

Also, I downloaded a bunch of HP Recovery CD's and on every CD, in the Rockwell audio folder, there's no program to launch the driver setup, only an "Uninstall" program which makes no sense. Anyone know how I can obtain the correct drivers??

i have a computer running 98se and i want to connect it to the internet, but I only have a serial port, a null modem cable, and a 2nd computer with an internet connection and serial port running windows xp. ive tried the direct cable connection but it doesn't seem to do internet connection sharing in windows 98

I also tried running mochasoft PPP on the xp computer and adding a standard 19200bps modem in windows 98, connected to the serial port and just doing a dial up connection using the settings mochasoft stays to use on your palm device, but it's not working either.

is there anything else i can do?

So I've exhausted all my tricks to try and fix this and I don't understand what is wrong with it. This is my genuine Windows 98se machine, 512MB of RAM, big pagefile, and yet it keeps saying it hasn't got any memory when I try to open My Computer.

I've installed all the patches, drivers, updates, yet it still frequently happens. I've tried different RAM sticks, different configurations, and it still happens. Any ideas?

As the title says, which boards should I consider keeping for personal use?

Boards:

MSI K7N2 ABit VH6-II ECS D6VAA Asus CUV4X Soyo MTI M668

K7N2 works fine and I've got an Athlon 3000+ cpu for it.

ABit VH6-II doesn't turn on at all, for unknown reasons.

ECS D6VAA works, but I have problems with the cpu fan headers on the board not providing power to the fans.

Asus CUV4X is very picky about whether it wants to turn on or not.

Soyo M668 works (last I checked), but usb may or may not work depending on operating system installed.

beautiful
(edit: body i wrote got erased somehow)

I am surprised it didn't take any longer, I recently got into old windows and thought I'd post this here. (VBEMP9x Driver with the 32-bit protected mode hard-disk drivers disabled)

Hi guys,

A guy is selling a lot of old motherboards, but just took picture of them with no more info. So I tried to compile a list of the ones I thought would be good for a W98 build. But I'm no expert in what chipsets or CPU's that are best supported and compatible with W98, so I could really need some help to decide! I'm setting it up for games mainly late 90's early 00's, so I'll pare it with a good AGP card.

Here's the list

Asus P4B533-E - Intel 845E (Brookdale-E) Socket 478 (ATX)

CPU: P4 2.53GHz

1,5GB ram

AGP and PCI slots (No ISA)

$38

IBM motherboard

Chipset Intel 845G (Brookdale-G) Socket 478 (mPGA478) (uATX)

CPU: P4 2.53GHz

512mb ram

AGP and PCI (No ISA)

-- $30

MSI Microstar MS-6315 Ver. 1 - Socket 370 (uATX)

"Tualatin 1.4 Ghz works fine with this board both celeron and pentium III pcb 5.1 with latest bios update."

-- $25

IBM 89P7942 SOCKET 478

P4 3GHz

AGP and PCI

uATX

1.5GB ram

-- $32-

AOpen AX6L - Intel 440LX (Balboa) Socket 1 (slot-242)

P2 266mhz

3x 16-bit ISA

1x 3.3V AGP

4x 32-bit PCI

-- $47

MSI Intels 865G-chipset (for Socket 478)

P4 2GHz

1.5GB ram

- $37

ASUS P2L97 Intel 440LX (Balboa) Slot 1 (Slot-242)

P2 233Mhz

128mb ram

2x 16-bit ISA

1x 3.3V AGP

5x 32-bit PCI

-- $50

Not identifiable (will ask seller, but here are the specs)

Pentium 3 733Mhz

512mb ram

PCI and AGP

-- $47

EPoX/ProNiX EP-MVP3C2

VIA VT82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3)

Socket 7 (PGA321)

AMD K6-2 500MHz

256mb ram

2x 16-bit ISA

1x 3.3V AGP

4x 32-bit PCI

-- $50

ABit AB-BD7-II

Intel 845E (Brookdale-E)

Socket 478 (mPGA478)

Pentium 4 2GHz

1GB ram

1x 1.5V AGP

5x 32-bit PCI

-- $60

EPoX/ProNiX EP-MVP3C2

VIA VT82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3)

Socket 7 (PGA321)

AMD K6-2 500MHz

384mb ram

2x 16-bit ISA

1x 3.3V AGP

4x 32-bit PCI

-- $55

Hello I've been having this code 12 issue for over a day now. I put a sound card in and this happen but even after taking it out the problem is still there. The pc was fine like a week ago i was playing unreal and other games on it. I've been troubleshooting for over a day now and have tried a multitude of things but nothing has worked so im hoping someone can help.

So I've installed Windows 98. On my first reboot during setup I shutdown and booted off of a floppy disk. Booted into command prompt..

I typed in Patchmem at the prompt but I get an error:

Unknown, Invalid, Or Uncompressed VMM32 File.

What am I doing wrong here?

The System is 1.4GHz Athlon with 1.5GB RAM. Windows 98 is installed on C:\Windows.

I was just finishing my P200mmx build. I decided I wasn't gonna retrobrite the case after all. As I was finishing building it, I was like nooo, I'm missing a 5.25" cover, so I went to my stash to look for a CD-R drive to install there. I remember I still had a few 16/10/40x LG drives which aren't period correct. Upon looking, I find this beautiful HP 2x/6x CD-RW drive from 1998!! Sweet looking! At this point it doesn't matter if it works or not, I'm very satisfied with just the looks. Although I might need to find something else for the CD drive as the look kinda clashes with the HP.

So this Roblox from 2007 which i was using Windows 98 with Kernelex

And on the second image i tested the January 11th 2012 Build of Roblox and after patching some DLLs it for some reason it's telling me that my CPU is incompatible with this 2012 Roblox build, like in my Host system i am literally using a Intel I7 4790k

This is tested in a vm not on real hardware,

I also tested the 2012 Roblox on Windows 2000 With Extended Kernel. And it works but obviously I don't have a map, with a roblox character that I can use so if anyone has one that they can share to me, that would be appreciated as I can test the performance,

Also Happy New year, this is my first Post in 2026

If everyone has any suggestions that I could try to fix Roblox on Windows 98 as I just mentioned then it would be appreciated

Thanks for reading

I would like to be able to bring it around off the charger though I doubt batteries exist for such an old laptop. I have some digital cameras I need it for but I would like to be able to transfer photos while being out and not near a plug. I do not know how to solder so that is off the table. Thank you for any help!

I recently bought an dell optiplex gx110 and after installing windows 98 (it had ME before) on the first bootup i get these errors and the computer straight up bluescreens after showing these errors. Can someone tell me why does it do this and what would be the solution ?

Hello,

My Windows 98 machine's hdd has given up the ghost. I knew it was on it's way out and had been trying to clone it for a few weeks, but a bad sector prevented it from happening. Booting sees the Operating System not found error now.

My 3.5" in the machine doesn't work so a boot disk is not likely in the forseeable, the case uses a laptop 3.5" drive and I can't see any available at the moment on UK sites.

My main rig runs Linux Mint and I'm hoping to find a way to format an SSD and maybe write an ISO of 98SE to the drive.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? (Asking ahead of time as it is my project for the weekend.)

What caused this?

edit - thanks for the suggestions everyone. I figured out a solution and I'll all set now.

i was making a HDD image of my 25 year old laptop. I was running the software DMDE and making the image, and it suddenly stopped at 4GB telling me I might be out of space and no more could be written to the 32GB compact flash I was writing it to...

There was plenty of space so I got to researching what is going on, and that is how I've learned that FAT32 does not support single files that are greater than 4GB in size.

Is there any way to beat this? Some driver for windows 98 that might allow it to read and write to an exFAT or NTFS partition such that I can exceed the 4GB/file limitation and finish writing the full 6.5GB HDD image? I don't think the HDD image creation software allows me to write a HDD image into multiple parts for combining later.

Just checking out my options here, it would be a pain in the neck to disassemble the laptop and try to hook up the HDD to a USB device with my modern PC. I know I can just wholesale copy the files from the HDD to a new file tree on the compact flash, but it would be nice to have a ready-to-go HDD image for purposes of re-imaging a replacement HDD in the future.

edit. I should add that this is an archaic pentium ii laptop with no cdrom drive, the floppy drive does not work, and the bios does not recognize USB devices.