asusa7n8x deluxe motherboard

[willya29]

this motherboard has an nvidianforce2 spp northbridge and an nvidia nforcemcp (deluxe model0 southbridge. My os is win98se.

The manual tells me to make a directory wsr under windows and transfer windows files to it.

I cannot get the file win386 to copy to this directory. Tells me it is in use.
I am therefore unable to download the nvidia nforce drivers from the cd to the computer.

I have an amd athlon2600x cpu, western digital hard drive(2), 512 mb 2700 memory, an asus ti4200 nvidia graphics card, a Santa Cruz sound card. a cd and a dvd rw installed.

Having tried everything I know to do and failed, I need help. The asus support section is no help at all as they just quote the manual. Any hel-p will be appreciated.

 

[1394]

You could try going to nvidia's website and downloading the latest drivers there. All you have to do is double click the file once its downloaded.

 

[brite750]

I have that mobo, it comes with a cdrom "Nvidia nforce2 chip set rev 68.01" you just put it in and it runs what's the problem?

Just saw your using 98se, I was told that this board does not support 98se but I don't know if that is true or has anything to do with your problem.

 

[darkjedi]

what does the os has to do with the motherboard?

 

[brite750]

As I said I don't know, it was a new one to me also. When I bought my new system, see sig, I was told that I should get Win2k or XP, because the new hardware is not made to run with 98x. Is it bull, probably, but I couldn't afford the time to screw around, bought system for Acad project.

 

[darkjedi]

has anybody heard this problem before?

 

[darkjedi]

I just called asus technical support ,and I was told that windows 98se might work but, the motherboard has new technology that is not compatible with 98 , the motherboard will run slow and you won't the able to use full its full potential

 

[darkjedi]

It will be better to use windows 2000 or xp

 

[brite750]

It will be better to use windows 2000 or xp

Thanks for clearing that up, I was beginning to think I got smoke blown up my knickers.

 

[storage_man]

I have a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Mother board for the last 8 months. When I first built my system I was using Win 98SE. I installed all of the necessary ASUS drivers and never had a problem related to WIN98 and the Mother board. Today I have Win XP Pro, and the main reason I switched is for USB support. Support for USB mass storage under WIN 98SE was a hit and miss adventure. Device removal was always an issue along with proper support of the devices. This included flash drives, USB cd burners and DVD burners. Win 98 and ASUS should work.

Storage_man

 

[darkjedi]

store man , at least we now know that the motherboard works with windows 98, but according to asus it will not run to its full potential , I was going to upgrade my old motherboard to this asus motherboard and use my windows 98 , I do not believed that the performance will be reduce that much , I'm upgrading from a 400mhz to a 2ghz, in your personal experience did you see any diferrence in performance betwen windows 98se and xp

 

[storage_man]

Darkjedi

I think win98 actually ran faster than XP. XP has a lot more overhead (ie: running tasks) than WIN 98. My system always had 512mb of memory and has 1 or more 80gb 7200 8mb buffered hard drives (I run WIN98, WINXP pro, and Red Hat Linux). They the drives were on sale so I bought 3 of them. I have an AMD Anthon 2400+ CPU.

Storage_man

 

[darkjedi]

thanks for the info, I was afraid that performance might be suffer because of windows 98

 

[brite750]

Hey, then my knickers are smokey. Well, I do actually like Win2000 pro, it's real stable, compared to 98se. It runs AutoCAD2002 really well, has a few little bells and whistles, but it cost me $160, curse you BG.

 

[willya29]

My computer is plenty fast enough. Have no usb problems. Can capture vhs tapes, etc. The only thing that bothers me is I feel I should be able to install all the Nvidia drivers. There has to be a way around this business of Windows 98SE asking for the windows setup cd, then not being able to find it, no matter what drive I tell it the cd is in. I should be able to point the win directory and get it recognised. Instead it tells me I have elected to cancel the Nvidia driver setup everytime. The only thing I haven't done is completely reinstall the motherboard. This has been a good board and I really want to use all its potential. Anyhow, thanks for all the answers.