I have an old single core laptop with an 80gb HDD. It is my guinea pig for a lot of things. I have managed to set it up in a triple boot configuration with Windows 98SE, Windows XP Pro, and Windows 7 Home Premium. It wasn't easy to do since 98 has to be on a FAT32 partition and the other 2 on NTFS. I had to install 98 first and then create the partitions for the other 2 with Partition Wizard. I also had to use EasyBCD after installing 7 to add the 98 partition to the boot menu. 98 actually uses GRUB to boot and says it is booting DOS 6.something.
They all run well but XP does the best. Mostly because that is what the machine came with and I still have all the original drivers. It was a pain finding drivers for 98 and some things still don't have any. I got USB working but I can't get the wireless internet adapter to work. Windows 98 does not support wireless. Amazingly, I did find video drivers that work. I also had to trick Windows into thinking the machine only has 256mb of RAM because 98 does not recognize the 2gb the machine actually has.
XP is great with all the needed drivers and even the HP ones for the keyboard buttons and HP Quick Play DVD player. I also found XP versions of Firefox, Ccleaner, and Avast Free AV that does get definition updates. The wireless works flawlessly.
7 is the 32 bit version of Home Premium and works fine with all drivers found and installed . It does run slower than the other 2 though.
They all run well but XP does the best. Mostly because that is what the machine came with and I still have all the original drivers. It was a pain finding drivers for 98 and some things still don't have any. I got USB working but I can't get the wireless internet adapter to work. Windows 98 does not support wireless. Amazingly, I did find video drivers that work. I also had to trick Windows into thinking the machine only has 256mb of RAM because 98 does not recognize the 2gb the machine actually has.
XP is great with all the needed drivers and even the HP ones for the keyboard buttons and HP Quick Play DVD player. I also found XP versions of Firefox, Ccleaner, and Avast Free AV that does get definition updates. The wireless works flawlessly.
7 is the 32 bit version of Home Premium and works fine with all drivers found and installed . It does run slower than the other 2 though.
My Computers
System One System Two
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- OS
- Windows 11 Home
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom built
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
- Motherboard
- MSI B550-A Pro
- Memory
- 16 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200
- Graphics Card(s)
- PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6600XT with 8GB GDDR6
- Sound Card
- Realtek integrated
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer Nitro 24" RG241Y 144hz refresh rate
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1080
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital Black SN770 1 TB NVMe SSD
Samsung 860 QVO 1 TB SATA SSD
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB HDD
- PSU
- LEPA B650 650 watt
- Case
- Enermax Coenus
- Cooling
- Cooler Master Hyper T4 air
- Keyboard
- CM Storm Devastator
- Mouse
- E-Blue Cobra Jr.
- Internet Speed
- 100mbs
- Browser
- Microsoft Edge Chromium
- Antivirus
- Microsoft Defender
- Other Info
- Optical Drives: LG DVD-RW and Pioneer BluRay/ DVD burner
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- Operating System
- Windows 11 Home
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Asus ROG Zephyrus G14
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
- Motherboard
- Asus board (GA402RK)
- Memory
- 16 GB Samsung DDR5-4800
- Graphics card(s)
- Integrated Radeon 680M and discrete Radeon RX 6800S with 8GB GDDR6
- Sound Card
- Integrated Realtek with Dolby Atmos
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Laptop screen 14" WQXGA, IPS, 120hz refresh rate
- Screen Resolution
- 2560 X 1600
- Hard Drives
- 1TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD (WD Black SN850)
- PSU
- Battery power and Asus power brick/adapter. Also has USB-C charging
- Case
- Laptop
- Cooling
- Laptop fans in vapor chamber
- Mouse
- Touchpad and Omoton bluetooth mouse
- Keyboard
- Built in RGB backlit
- Internet Speed
- 100mbps
- Browser
- Edge Chromium
- Antivirus
- Microsoft Defender
