Bare minimum requirements for running Win98 ??

[Montano]

What are the official 'minimum requirements' for running Win98 ??

Proc speed, memory, etc...

Thanks 😀

 

[spyordie007]

According to this site:
http://www.mcmaster.ca/cis/help/win95_98/#requirements98

A 486DX 66 with 16MB of RAM. I seem to recall having machines running Windows 98 on 12MB of RAM as well.

Your biggest problem is going to be the applications you want to run on it. For example, just upgrade to IE 6 and you need 64MB of RAM...

 

[aswedc]

You could actually disable the processor check and run it on a 386 too, it uses no 486 instructions. I used this method to run 98SE on a NexGen Nx586.

 

[Montano]

More info on disabling the proc check please 😀

 

[Nothinman]

Minimum requirements would probably be blindness and mild retardedness for me personally.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: Montano
More info on disabling the proc check please 😀

You're sick, if you really need a machine to dink around with I've got a couple of P2-266s w/ 192MB of RAM and 17" monitors, I'll sell you one of 'em (PM Me).

-Spy

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Minimum requirements would probably be blindness and mild retardedness for me personally.

LMAO!!

:beer:

 

[Ionizer86]

I wouldn't run 98 on a machine less than a midrange P2 (I'd say about a P2 333 with 64MB ram) unless you're going to install 98 Lite to scrap the IE shell, in which case a ~P100 should be ok.

 

[Bassyhead]

I've ran it on a P166 w/ 64MB RAM, slow but definitely usable for light stuff like web browsing and stuff

 

[FrustratedUser]

I've run NT4 on a P90 so why would W98SE need more?

 

[vegetation]

Win98 ran great on my old P166 dell desktop with 64mb ram. However it ran like cr@p on my P133 Omnibook laptop with 80mb ram, I don't know why but when I installed 98lite to disable IE engine it was much much better.. So the morale of the story is disable IE if you got a slow system, then use Firebird or something.

 

[ba2486]

Left or Right Hand

High Cliff

Strong Tail Wind

 

[Winchester]

I am pretty sure I had it running on a 486 DX 100mhz with only 8mb ram. It was slower than molasses though. Took it forever to open calculator or notepad.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: aswedc
You could actually disable the processor check and run it on a 386 too, it uses no 486 instructions. I used this method to run 98SE on a NexGen Nx586.

I'm glad I didn't buy one of those... I would have been pretty pissed to find it was architecturally just a fast 386 and didn't support any of the new instructions 🙁.

edit: Oh, and I thought the i486 didn't introduce any new instructions - nothing changed until the Pentium... so anything that runs on a 486 should run on a 386 (albeit slowly 😉)

 

[Abhi]

The least i have run it on was a P 120 mhz, 32 MB EDO RAM....