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Win 98 drivers for the Optiplex 170ln
I just recently bought 3 Optiplex 170ln units and was promissed by the seller that the system was compatible with win98. I know its an old OS, but my company has loads of licenses for it, and no real use for a newer Os.
Now I cant find any working win98 drivers for the system.
most things work, except grafics and LAN.
Anyone that knows of working drivers for this system ?
I sure could use the help!
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September 26th, 2005 16:00
Here are some of the specs. The NIC doesn't go into detail, but if you go to the downloads and select XP for the OS, it shows the NIC to be an Intel 10/100. Intel usually standardizes their drivers so that if you search by the Intel 10/100 for Windows 98 and get the latest driver package for any 10/100 card it'll likely work (as it covers most/all their 10/100 NICs).
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September 27th, 2005 00:00
So, you bought these without OS? I don't see any other reason to go back 7 years to an antiquated operating system. It will be hard, maybe impossible, to keep malware off these things, since everyone including the cleaning lady will be administrators. You say your company does business on these? Maybe you could tell us the name of your company so we can avoid doing business with you.
My 2 cents.
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September 27th, 2005 14:00
You could try the drivers from INTEL for the D865PERL motherboard.
However Only WIN98SE is going to work. WIN98 uses VXD drivers 98SE uses WDM drivers
which are closer to 2000/XP
http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/rl/rl_drive.htm
Message Edited by SpeedStep on 09-27-2005 11:15 AM
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September 28th, 2005 16:00
Point being that it does work. Its also why I still recommend to users that they get the 170L over newer PCI express systems as its Cloneable and manageable and reasonably reliable. I do however stress that ONLY TOWER systems should be purchased. That way adding a Geforce FX5500 PCI card is not a hassle.
Its not a screamer game system but for what I use them for it doesnt matter.