Greetings!

I recently acquired a 'new' to me computer. It seems like a older custom PC. Its a Chaintech Zenith PC and has a cool LED light up clock on its case. I Will list specs at the BOTTOM.

I installed a nice 200Gb Ide hard drive and installed windows 98 SE. Issue is, i cant seem to find any drivers for 98Se. That is i am, but am unsure which of these older sites to trust. Nvidia has a 98 Driver, but the link is dead. Could someone offer some assistance. Specs are:

AMD Athlon 1500+
7NJS Zenith motherboard
1Gb DDR RAm
Geforce Ti4200 128Mb GPU
200Gb WD hard drive.

I Will also being installing XP and 2000 hopefully on a tripple boot. I might have a few uses for this machine, depending on how that GPU works out. I'll look around for you...in the meantime i suggest tryin the Win2K drivers....they should work.Motherboard:

From what I can find it's an nForce2 Ultra 400 based Mobo. Should be able to use the Unified Driver Package for nForce for Windows 9x. Can be found here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_win9x_2.41.html

Here is a direct link: nForce

The Geforce 3 download seems to be broken as you said. You can find Detonator Drivers on Vogons. It's a reasonably safe site primarily build by the users of the vogons.org forum as a REPOSITORY of driver files for older hardware.


BTW regarding the 1GB of RAM, Win98SE has issues with 512MB or more of RAM. The SOLUTION in most cases is to add or edit "MaxFileCache = 524288" to the VCACHE section of WIN.INI. It sounds like it's booting and you just need drivers but that could bite you later since the VMM ends up taking up way too much memory for itself.Quote from: patio on May 27, 2016, 06:37:27 PM

I'll look around for you...in the meantime i suggest tryin the Win2K drivers....they should work.

Motherboard:

From what I can find it's an nForce2 Ultra 400 based Mobo. Should be able to use the Unified Driver Package for nForce for Windows 9x. Can be found here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_win9x_2.41.html

Here is a direct link: nForce

The Geforce 3 download seems to be broken as you said. You can find Detonator Drivers on Vogons. It's a reasonably safe site primarily build by the users of the vogons.org forum as a repository of driver files for older hardware.


BTW regarding the 1GB of RAM, Win98SE has issues with 512MB or more of RAM. The solution in most cases is to add or edit "MaxFileCache = 524288" to the VCACHE section of WIN.INI. It sounds like it's booting and you just need drivers but that could bite you later since the VMM ends up taking up way too much memory for itself.