Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

[Adrian Stoness]

the amd 64's ran 98 se. it installs in less 23 seconds or somthing me and a
friend did it ran it for quiet a while
i7 are multi core dunno how 98 would handle that.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

> On 01/28/2016 05:22 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>>
>
> Windows 98 worked fine with a 1.4GHz Tualatin Pentium III (socket 370)
>> and i815e chipset. It also worked just fine on a Pentium 4 and I suspect
>> would work with a Pentium D or Core Duo using only one CPU core.
>>
>
> I didn't mention that I've got 98SE running on an 820 chipset (RIMM/RDRAM
> is silly cheap now) with a Tuallie 1.4GHz in a Powerleap slocket.  It
> doesn't much agree with the Crystal CS4622 audio, but perhaps that's just a
> matter of finding the right driver.
>
> Windows 98 was supposed to support a maximum of 2GB of memory, however
>> it has a bug in the Vcache driver which causes problems unless you limit
>> the memory it can use to 1 or 1.5GB.
>>
>
> Exactly what I've done with 440GX system.  Using a different XMS driver, I
> keep a 1GB RAMdisk there.
>
> On faster, more modern systems, I use VirtualBox.  Just not worth the
> extra trouble finding drivers--but I suspect 98SE will run on P4 systems as
> well.
>
> --Chuck
>
>