WINXP vs 98SE

[Christian-Comp]

Actually, you can upgrade the motherboard and not have to do a reinstallation on XP.
The catch is the motherboard has to require the same chipsets (virtually all aspects of the motherboard you are coming from). I swapped out a K7S5A for a PRO board and had 0 problems. It had the same chipset, and such as the prior board.

It is very limited on what you can upgrade and get away with but it can be done.

[TOAD6147]

Otherthan M$ wanting to make it obsolete I can't imagine why anyone would want to leave Win98 for XP especially in a home or home office environment. Given the fact that it requires updated hardware and increased memory I would stay with '98 if you're happy with it. And for someone to say '98 is unstable is rediculous. BTW, in the futue if you'll do a simple search you will probably find numerous threads dealing with any question you may have.

[Christian-Comp]

I thing where Windows 98 fall unstable is in 2 sections.

1) Memory - Windows 98 does not use its memory/resources/etc sufficiently. Most BSODs can be fixed by upgrading (in Win98 to more memory). This problem comes from having to go to the paging memory as opposed to hardware memory.

2) Driver handling - Poorly written drivers for the Windows 98 OS have caused a lot of problems.

These two things give the illusion that Win98 is unstable.

If anyone wants to talk trash about instability... go out and install Windows ME and then come back.