win98

[sam101]

I'm having problems installing Win 89 on a laptop with a AMD Athlon64 chip, from what i can gather these problems are not uncommon, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

Sam101

 

[handan2002]

Since you've obviously spent a bit of money already on getting that 64 chip (and its accompanying hardware), why don't you just fork out a bit more for XP? There shouldn't be any compatibility issues. Plus, you can actually take advantage of 64.

 

[sam101]

Ahh alas tis not me but a friend, i do not possess the acumen to own such a coveted device, said friend is dead set in the past and has uninstalled xp in favour of 98 and run into issues.

 

[handan2002]

well, if he/she really likes it that much, can't they just switch to the "classic windows" theme? that theme doesn't make it too different from the win98 one

 

[GavinO]

There are many differences between 98 and XP beyond the theme; XP is simply broken for some applications. Also, there is not yet a build of XP that takes advantage of AMD-64 instructions (there is simply a version on the horizon, awaiting the release of Intel's 64-bit chip)