
As previously mentioned, AWARD BIOS seems best based on my experience. This seems to be largely dependent on the type of BIOS. Modern motherboards frequently use ACPI that does not get along well with 9x. It will eliminate a bunch of headache and give you a head start on other problems. If you are serious about attempting this, then first I advise you to purchase rloew's RAM and SATA patches. Your main issues to overcome will be the following: I've been experimenting some in this area for a while now I've made it up to an Intel X58 Chipset motherboard but had to sideline further experimentation for a while.
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It's possible to get Windows 9x running on fairly modern hardware. (Most Gigabytes before UEFI use Award) I've heard that AMI doesn't play nice with Windows 98 and it's not my favorite either. My suggestion, go with a board that uses Award BIOS. Ill let you know my choices when I decide. I will try to narrow it down to a few by the end of today. But as Submix said/asked.what are the other specs of your hardware? What brand/model video card? Motherboard specs itself?Īnd I agree, virtualization is for *expletive*.using real hardware, especially newer hardware, now that's fun and usually quite rewarding.Sorry I didn't choose a motherboard yet.

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Rloew's RAM patch will let you use up to 4GBs and his patch is the bomb, but I need to do a little testing with it and Outlook 2002 which I still haven't had time to do actually ^^ But if you want to use a great quantity of RAM reliably, I'd really invest in his patch.

I'm not quite sure how 8GBs of RAM would work out.
