Running Win98 on Dual Core System

I'm trying to dual boot a Dual Core laptop with XP Home and Win 98. Xp Home installs without any problems, but the Win 98 installation crashes everytime. My question is can I run Win 98 on a Dual Core system? I know that Win 98 will only detect the single core. I've been reading up on articles and sites regarding this problem and have found people running the Win 98 with no problems at all (according to them) with the Dual core chips. The next thing I would try is to use Microsoft's Virtual PC. I really need Win 98 for an old design program. Please help! Thanks in advance!

 

how much memory does your system have ?

 

Yes I did two partitions one NTFS and the other for FAT 32. Still didn't work. Called up the local Intel office and they said that the Dual Core chip "cannot" run Win98. So that was it. Then I tried the Virtual PC. **** slow! The system has 1GB or Ram but Win98 running on Virtual PC was crawling at a snails pace. So now I'm stuck!

 

If you are still interested in Win 98, check for the availability of Win 98 drivers at the laptop manufacturer's webpage (for your model). If Win 98 drivers are available it will run on that system (unless there is some special preclusion about dual-core CPUs).

You do know that Win 98 would need to be installed before Win XP, and Win 98 must be installed to the C: drive (it has not been mentioned).

Without a "modification" Win 98 cannot address RAM larger than 512Mb.

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Win 98 will run on a Pentium 100Mhz system with 64Mb of RAM. People threw these away ages ago. Depending on the design program's requirements, somebody would probably "give" you a decent system. If you have a desktop monitor to run on your laptop, using a KVM switch you would only need the box/case and a keyboard. Network the two computers and both systems would be "live" at the same time, sharing the same monitor and mouse. This is my theory, it may depend on the capabilities of your laptop. (BTW, desktop systems would be a better type of "non-standard "/multiple OS setup. Laptops are really only designed with portability in mind). It could be a method you may want to investigate though.

Matt

 

I have run win98se with a gig of physical ram, and a gig of swapfile. All I had to do, in order for some programs to run, was add to [vcache] in system.ini :

MaxCacheSize=262144 (number is in Kilobytes)

With 768 MB physical and 1.5 GB swapfile, I did not have to make any mods to system.ini.

If you go over 1 GB physical, you get a 'not enough memory' fatal error at boot in 98se. However, if you need to run 2K or XP with more than 1 GB physical, then you have to limit memory in 98se, before you install the extra ram.

I know this from personal experience.