Win98 and PIII?

[yungman]

I just bought the intel board (D815EEA)and a PIII 800EB chip and after installing Win98 (not 2nd ed.), I can't restart the machine properly.

If I go to Start Menu and then choose Restart, I'll get the following error message after Win98 loads: "windows encountered an error accessing the system registry. Windows will restart and repair the system registry for you." So it restarts and then if I try this again, the same error message will pop up when I choose to Restart. anybody heard or experienced this prob?

So is this a problem with the hardware or Win98 not being able to recognize the PIII? I've disabled the onboard sound and I've got an ATI All in Wonder Pro in the AGP slot which should disable the onboard video. The onboard Lan is enabled. I haven't installed anything any cards yet, just the cd-rom, hd, and floppy.

Any ideas of where to get patches or do I just need to get Win98 2nd ed or Win ME?

 

[BCYL]

This should not be a problem with PIII... Just that your windows registry is corrupted, possibly by some software you installed... Even though win98 does not recognize a PIII, it still works with it...

 

[yungman]

The thing is that I haven't installed any software at all, I'm going to try flashing the bios and searching for updated drivers on intel's site.

 

[BreakApart]

Sounds more like the hard-drive is setup wrong in the bios... Did you use auto-detect hard-drive in the BIOS before you began, to set the default format? I have seen this same problem where the drive was not configured correctly...

 

[Mem]

Best thing is do a clean install of OS,then install the i815 drivers from the motherboard CD ,this should then improve stability.