HELP with new MB,videocard and OS

[jepadams]

I have been using win98 first edition since, I guess 98. I have it on 5 machines. I just bought an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe mobo, an ASUS V9480/TVD Ti 4800 video card, and a pentium 4-2.4 GHz 800MHz FSB processor and 1 GB DDR RAM. I was using an old AMD Athalon slot A 650 MHz with 512 MB. I should be very happy but I am not.

I uninstalled all of my cards and shut down video to standard VGA so I could move my 'C' drive to my 'new machine'. The mobo has onboard NIC and sound. I still had problems. you see this mobo only supports win98SE or newer, I have first edition, win95, and NT 4.0 (it will support NT4.0 ).
So I go out and but XP Home upgrade for $99

The mobo is fine with that but the video card is not XP conplient. It only supports win98, win98SE and winME. the video drivers suport NT 4.0 and seem to work on XP, but the capture features are lost to win 9x

When I was checking these out on the net before I bought them, I never saw anything about there compatability problems.

My network is protected by a router with firewall so I dont need the ICS feature in XP

It took me 2 days just to get my network conected with XP- give me NT 4.0 any day

Question 1
anyone know where I can find win98SE

Queation 2
Is the AGP voltage standard for 1x and 2x 3.3 volts and for 4x 1.5 volts and for 8x .8 volts
I bought every thing in retail box. The video card box says it is 8x, 4x, 2x
The problem is that ASUS does not give you any manuals in print and I can not find any on the CD's or on the internet

Question 3
Does anyone know of any after-market drives that will make the capture fratures on this card work or for an old ati all in wonder pro pci-I have one of those also but both ati and asus say they have no plans to make then XP compatable

Question 4
After upgrading I have noticed that some things dont work, such as my spell checker. Do I need to uninstall MS office and reinstall it or will I get told that MS office is not colpatable with XP, I think this is where the spell checking function comes from.

Question 5
I have not activated XP yet, could some of my problems come from that? And, since I have not maybe I could take the software back to officemax and get win2000 insted?
Is it any better?
I thought XP would be good but I think I like NT4 and win 98 better.

[sixf00t4]

1. i am sure you can get 98se from checking the traders forum

2. the card will work, it is backwards compatible. may want to check your bios settings and make sure everything is set correctly there, and ofcourse get the latest drivers.

3. after-market drives? drivers? where does ATI come in?

4. what version of office do you have? did you just do the upgrade? or did you format your pc with the xp upgrade? there is a MS KB article on that happenning, can you give the exact error?

5. there is no performance difference between activated or not. i dont think you would have much luck with 2k over xp either.

[DallasDon]

Windows 98 only supports 512 MB of ram. Might try it with one stick, to see if that helps.

Better to do a clean install of Windows XP with a full OEM version, rather than the upgrade Version. That would invlove backing up any data you want to save, and reformatting the hard drive, then reinstalling any programs, and data.

Refunds are often not accepted on Software. Might go for an exchange to an OEM version.

There is a compatablity wizard in window XP to run older programs. Use the search function in the help and control center to find out more.