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krick:


--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on June 18, 2006, 01:21:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: krick on June 18, 2006, 12:10:25 am ---Win98SE only supports up to 137GB due to bugs in scandisk and defrag.  Since they don't make 137GB drives, 120GB is the biggest you can go.

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That's simply not the case at all!......  I have two 160Gig hard drives running under windows 98SE with no problems.

What I think you mean is that Win98SE won't support partitions bigger than 137Gigs in size.  So you can actually have much larger hard drives as long as you partition them into logical drives each smaller than 137Gigs.

Scandisk and Defrag then have no problem with them at all!

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There are certain situations where it will work.  You have to have a LBA48 capable motherboard with a IDE driver from the manufacturer that properly supports LBA48.  Unfortunately, this is very rare.

Here's a very good thread on the subject...

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=23894049cbaec1897e301c307401c2de&showtopic=46752

Havok:

If you are putting a machine together from scratch, don't use Win98: XP or Linux are better choices.

(Here comes the flames!)

You just won't get the support with contemporary hardware using a 9 year old operating system that is not updated or supported by Microsoft anymore. Since we are talking a new machine, speed should not be an issue.

My machine boots right into my front end from an off state in 34 seconds. And that's without even trying to really tweak the boot time with services, etc. I think you would be hard pressed to find someone with a 98 machine do much better. And if they did, does a couple of seconds really matter that much? You would be giving up driver support and adding additional potential heartache when configuring.

krick:


--- Quote from: Havok on June 19, 2006, 09:08:26 am ---If you are putting a machine together from scratch, don't use Win98: XP or Linux are better choices.

(Here comes the flames!)


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I'm not going to flame you.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion and your opinion is completely valid.

If you are building a new machine with PCI-Express slots, then you pretty much *have* to use XP or Linux as none of the chipset manufacturers are providing Windows 9x chipset drivers.

I just brought up Win98SE because many people on the BYOAC forums with dedicated MAME cabinets run 98SE or DOS7 in them.

I have an Opteron 2.8GHz system in my cabinet and I choose to run Windows 98SE since I don't see the point in spending $100 for a copy of XP just for a MAME cabinet.  So for me, the hard drive size and interface limitations are an important consideration.



Havok:

They're both good options, but I think a newer O/S is a better choice for a new pc. You certainly could use 98 however. You also brought up an excellent point: I actually do have a PCI-e video card, so I can't use 98. If anyone is thinking of using the latest, fastest video cards, then 98 isn't  for you. Plus, I also play PC games on it as well, and you really do want the latest drivers for those.

As far as the OS issue, I guess that all depends on what you already have. Since we are talking a new pc - he would have to purchase an OS anyways. (Unless you are replacing a current defective pc with an OS). I don't think you can even buy 98 anymore - even through aftermarket channels.

I guess it really boils down to exactly how you plan on using this cab, and if you want a fast video card with support, or just a standard video card (which can still be pretty fast).

The possibilities are endless!

 ;D

rackoon:

Thanks for the responses guy.

I have a P4 2.66 processor and 400MHz /512MB of ram. I was planning on using a copy of XP.
 I went ahead and got a WD 80GB harddrive   ultra ATA 100.

I suppose I asked the original question because I just don't know much about how computers work.

Just curious, where does the info go after it leaves the hardrive. As I understand it, RAM forgets every thing in seconds.

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