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I need a burner for a Win 98 (non SE) P2 300 box

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killerdcc

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I agreed to revamp a machine for a firend and they want me to add a burner.

So will a CD burner work in a Win 98 (not SE), P2 300, 192MB box (on a asus 440LX chipset mobo) or it is too slow/old?

Every drive I see says min is Win98 SE....will that be an issue?

Thanks
 
I used an old 2X burner for work on a pentium 200 MHz, Win95 SR2 and Win98 first ediition so it should work at least at 1x - 4x, maybe faster given burn proof.
 
Probably depends more on the burning software than the drive itself. The drive itself shouldn't give a flip about the machine or OS as long as it supports at least PIO4/DMA2 (16.7 MB/sec) drives. UDMA2 (33 MB/Sec) capability should cover the needs of ALL burners. Check the spec sheets on the drives of interest.
. DVD movie playback needs either a faster machine or a decoder card (like the Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus). So if you're just talking CD burning, it should be no problemo.
. IAC, no one should still be using original Win 98 - it shouldn't be too hard to come up with an SE bump CD somewhere 😉 . After all, M$ gave away the bump disks at one time...
.bh.
 
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