Can Windows 98 Run on a New Modern PC 2024?

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Can you Install Windows 98 on a New Modern Computer in 2022?
Today in this video I’ll try to find out is it possible to install Windows 98 on a modern hardware in 2022. Enjoy

[sasLLJW]

Imagine if there was a message' this PC is too new/powerful for windows 98, please downgrade to continue. ' that would be funny

[garystewart]

things have gotten so much easier than they used to be. i remember installing drivers on floppies and actually setting jumpers for irq setting.

[Vlad-]

There is actually a SATA driver for DVD drives for DOS. It is called XDVD2
Also a better tool than patchmem it is called limit9x. Basically, you don't need to change RAM into your computer. It just makes it so regardless of your actual Memory, Windows98 will only see and reserve 512mb. This is the maximum and avoids having to limit the system to 4GB

[markpmar]

The first OS I used was Windows 98 and it was in 1998 and because some things never change, it didn't run very well at first and the OS didn't really stabilize until it was patched in Windows 98 Second Edition the following year. It was a great OS to play with and learn from but as an OS meant to run on DOS and in 32-bit environments, I'm surprised you got as far as you did. The most "modern" CPU I ever used with Win 98 was a Pentium D. Win 98 wasn't meant to operate past "Pentium !!!", as it was called. And 512 MB of DRAM would've been a huge luxury in 1998-99. I used 32 MB of memory in my first PC. That PC still runs and I have Mr. Loew's software patches, too. It remains one of my favorite builds. Currently, I am using Windows 7. I call it "the perfected Windows 98"! Thanks for this video.

[bitemykrank]

You don't need the USB stick to do a Win98 install. All you need is to copy the win98 folder from the CD to your HDD and run setup from it directly. It's the way we did it back in the day.

[jonathanrees]

Single CPU/core showing up is to be expected, first Microsoft operating system that supported 2 CPUs was NT. At least 1 vendor had an NT 4.0 HAL that supported a whole 4 CPUs (but went out of support really fast). Safe mode loads without any non essential drivers - so if boots in safe mode but not normally it is a driver issue. It is sometimes possible to back port drivers from a newer Windows operating system - under the bonnet even 11 still has old code. Windows retains unused drivers, so when you swap between boards it retains garbage from different board(s). In device manager "Show hidden devices" will normally display these. It is often useful to uninstall these devices/drivers when you have problems as it cleans up plug and play. Plug and play does not actually work properly if the graphics driver is not right or not functioning correctly - not sure why, but after graphics driver install system often then would correctly identify the rest of the system. Installing 95 on older DOS systems often had problems because of faulty RAM - that never showed in DOS.

[mrmosk]

Looks like AMD CPU has some good backward compatible capabilities. I am surprised it even worked, because modern PCIe drivers use a lot more memory than the PCI ones in the late 90’s. It also shows how well PCIe is designed for backward compatibility, when the physical bus is completely different, yet the software addressing still shares enough with PCI to let the OS start.

[spankyham]

Could be down to the Legacy implementation of the UEFI bios. I run into that problem off and on, and many current motherboard no longer have legacy. Another possibility is that AMD still retains more legacy architectures than Intel is. Hard to know which is the case, but congrats you found something that works non the less.

[RamtechENG]

What is your favorite operating system?

[agsel]

HIMEMX /MAX=512M would probably alleviate any memory problems. Also you have already been running MS-DOS in this entire video.

[gabriellejacquiet]

Great video, really interesting as I - obviously - never tried this myself, I didnt know it was this tedious to get working

[stormykeep]

It's fun experimenting with old/new hardware and software in this fashion! I'm just thankful for emulators though like PCEM and 86Box so I can play my old Windows 95/98 games on my modern pc!

[excess.subieflw]

Awesome video! Amd lives up to the name Advanced Micro Devices for sure!

[mrdogpoopunleashed]

Loved it! I was really hoping it would work because I used Win98 and old parts are getting harder and harder to find. Thanks for sharing.

[stricikli]

♡ your channel. You put so much effort in this video. I was looking for some chill content about retro stuff, and boooom found this one

[cristirado_official]

Try changing Hardrive configuration on BIOS to IDE instead of AHCI (SATA ). A few modern Motherboards can still emulate IDE configurations.

[michaelprox]

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[johnkovacs]

you are a bracer soul then I, I would have just used virtual machine (and have but nostalgia ran out pretty fast after the initial boot sounds as I didn't think it would work and had nothing planned afterwards lol), as well love the Russian words helps me in my language skills (even if all I can do is see and understand the letters but not what they mean in a word lol). Would like to see more you are still doing these.

[yousefslimani]

Thanks for uploading this video I was really wondering if someone can install windows 9x OSe's on modern computers! So thanks to you I was finally to see the results! Nice video by the way!

[GalaxyCat]

There is a setting in the start up config that can tell win98 to limit ram used to 512 or 1 gb etc. I used it on an older Athlon 64 PC to limit ram to 2gb, also had Rob's memory patch on the PC. Ran perfectly. Though the ram limit was not read if starting in safe mode so would need to drop ram to under 2gb if I really needed to go into safe mode which was very rare.