Not sure if this belongs here or in General Hardware, but here goes.
I recently got a very inexpensive Dell 2400 with a 845G chipset board and a P4 2.2 on the FS/FT forum. I installed XP on it and everything checked out fine. My son has some older games that won't work in XP, even in compatibility mode, so I figured I'd set a 98SE system up for him on the 2400. As expected, I could get WIN 98 to boot on it, but I can't get the chipset drivers to install. I assume the 2400 originally came with XP (it's only about a year old), so as expected the drivers aren't on the Dell drivers CD. (Dell downloads also don't show any drivers for WIN 98.) But I also can't get the Intel INF drivers to work. When I use it, it appears as if the drivers are installing, but when the system reboots, the yellow exclamation points are still there for PCI ISA Bridge (not sure why that's there), System Management Bus, or USB. The motherboard is a proprietary Dell board, but I would've thought that standard Intel drivers would've worked on any 845G board.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Also since this only needs to run some pretty simple games, I also wonder if it wouldn't work okay, even with these issues (although having them would annoy me).
Thanks for any help.
I recently got a very inexpensive Dell 2400 with a 845G chipset board and a P4 2.2 on the FS/FT forum. I installed XP on it and everything checked out fine. My son has some older games that won't work in XP, even in compatibility mode, so I figured I'd set a 98SE system up for him on the 2400. As expected, I could get WIN 98 to boot on it, but I can't get the chipset drivers to install. I assume the 2400 originally came with XP (it's only about a year old), so as expected the drivers aren't on the Dell drivers CD. (Dell downloads also don't show any drivers for WIN 98.) But I also can't get the Intel INF drivers to work. When I use it, it appears as if the drivers are installing, but when the system reboots, the yellow exclamation points are still there for PCI ISA Bridge (not sure why that's there), System Management Bus, or USB. The motherboard is a proprietary Dell board, but I would've thought that standard Intel drivers would've worked on any 845G board.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Also since this only needs to run some pretty simple games, I also wonder if it wouldn't work okay, even with these issues (although having them would annoy me).
Thanks for any help.
