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Resurrecting a Legacy X86 PC..
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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 1017382" data-attributes="member: 325666"><p>So far so good ..</p><p>Looks like I had the original chipset installation CD ..</p><p>I built win2000 on a 100gb partition formatted to NTFS on a 500gb IDE ..</p><p>Everything went smoothly ..</p><p>I have Audio ..</p><p>I have LAN / Internet access</p><p>It even installed the Voodoo without asking for my driver disc ..</p><p>The only driver disc asked for was the Sigma Xcard ..</p><p>This too went in smoothly ..</p><p>Will do XPpro tomrrow ..on a seperate partition of the same Hard Drive ..</p><p>What is worrying me a little is the motherboards backwards compatibility to Win95B and 98SE..</p><p>It may well choke ..</p><p>BUT</p><p>having looked closely at the original driver disc ..there are included Win9X patches on it ..</p><p>No surprise there ..so maybe ..just maybe the motherboard is old enough to be backwards compatible.</p><p>We shall see ..</p><p>..and this is the tricky part ..</p><p>Finding a mobo recent enough but not too recent for XP/2000</p><p>..and old enough to support older OS like 95B/98SE..</p><p>A tightrope indeed..to straddle the millenium..</p><p>Time to shut down for the night and go watch some TV.</p><p>;)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 1017382, member: 325666"] So far so good .. Looks like I had the original chipset installation CD .. I built win2000 on a 100gb partition formatted to NTFS on a 500gb IDE .. Everything went smoothly .. I have Audio .. I have LAN / Internet access It even installed the Voodoo without asking for my driver disc .. The only driver disc asked for was the Sigma Xcard .. This too went in smoothly .. Will do XPpro tomrrow ..on a seperate partition of the same Hard Drive .. What is worrying me a little is the motherboards backwards compatibility to Win95B and 98SE.. It may well choke .. BUT having looked closely at the original driver disc ..there are included Win9X patches on it .. No surprise there ..so maybe ..just maybe the motherboard is old enough to be backwards compatible. We shall see .. ..and this is the tricky part .. Finding a mobo recent enough but not too recent for XP/2000 ..and old enough to support older OS like 95B/98SE.. A tightrope indeed..to straddle the millenium.. Time to shut down for the night and go watch some TV. ;) [/QUOTE]
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