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Old Jul 24, 2002, 10:13 AM   #1
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Default No Win98 support...sob sob..

Dear Customer,

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Radeon 9xxx Specifications

The Radeon 9000 series (Radeon 9000 Pro and Radeon 9700) will run on Win XP,
Win 2000 and Win Me.
It will not work in Windows 98/se/95/NT, therefore there will be no driver
support for these operating systems.

Please check the online technical specifications for more information about
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Radeon 9000 Pro: http://www.ati.com/products/pc/radeon9000pro/specs.html

Radeon 9700: http://www.ati.com/products/pc/radeon9700/specs.html




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Old Jul 24, 2002, 10:19 AM   #2
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wuite possible the WinME drivers will work in Win98SE since they both use WDM drivers. Though, the original Win98 will not work at all.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 10:37 AM   #3
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To be perfectly honest with you I did NOT want to get another MS product after 98, I've even stated as much........ I did however finally make the plunge and get the XP Home upgrade. I formatted my C: drive, and installed the upgrade fresh ( and did the 98 cd swap when asked). After I set everything up I disabled all BS that XP runs by default, and set it to run only what was necessary. I must admit IMHO it is a much more stable OS than 98 ( AGAIN IMHO ), also loads faster, and I have no problems running the things that I use. It does s**k that my NAV has to be upgraded to 2002 ( which I think is bs - money grubbers ). Other than that I think XP runs mint, and a very worthy upgrade. I think it was worth $99, for me anyways.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 10:43 AM   #4
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Is there going to be a DX9 download for either version of Win98? If not, that could explain why there will be no Win98 support for the 9700, and why they'd go so far as to say "it won't work with 98, so we're not gonna bother writing drivers".
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 10:43 AM   #5
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To be perfectly honest with you I did NOT want to get another MS product after 98, I've even stated as much........ I did however finally make the plunge and get the XP Home upgrade. I formatted my C: drive, and installed the upgrade fresh ( and did the 98 cd swap when asked). After I set everything up I disabled all BS that XP runs by default, and set it to run only what was necessary. I must admit IMHO it is a much more stable OS than 98 ( AGAIN IMHO ), also loads faster, and I have no problems running the things that I use. It does s**k that my NAV has to be upgraded to 2002 ( which I think is bs - money grubbers ). Other than that I think XP runs mint, and a very worthy upgrade. I think it was worth $99, for me anyways.
By BS did you also disable services that are on by default?
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 10:50 AM   #6
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 11:09 AM   #7
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If you go into the administrative tools then services you will see what is running by default remote services,alerter etc... By turning some of these services (that you most likely won't be using anyway) off it frees up resources and potential security risks. http://www.blackviper.com and if you search around other sites have more info!
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 01:16 PM   #8
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hheheh, I suppose , now that i've seen the email from ati, WHICh btw, better not be a sick joke I'll have to go and upgrade to xp.....

fortunately for me, i have winXp corporate editon which works like all other ms. os's worked, you can format/install anytime anything goes wrong,,, BUT Guess what home/pro edtion are LIMTITED to TEN , YES ten installs so if you get the klez virus ten times, then m.s. says ooopss better buy another license,,, yea there are hacks, but there should be no need for a hack,, selling a limited license like that is illegal, but m.s. got away with it so.....
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 02:40 PM   #9
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If you go into the administrative tools then services you will see what is running by default remote services,alerter etc... By turning some of these services (that you most likely won't be using anyway) off it frees up resources and potential security risks. http://www.blackviper.com and if you search around other sites have more info!
Yep Bads, thats what I did , wasn't sure what you were asking me. Gotta get rid of the resource hogging BS, and it runs mint.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 03:10 PM   #10
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Windows 98????

what is that?

using only Windows NT based OS for 3 years now...

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Old Jul 24, 2002, 03:22 PM   #11
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Yep Bads, thats what I did , wasn't sure what you were asking me. Gotta get rid of the resource hogging BS, and it runs mint.
Good to hear! "What" Billys got something to tell all of us! http://www.theforumisdown.com/upload...0702/Billy.jpg
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 03:33 PM   #12
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Good to hear! "What" Billys got something to tell all of us! http://www.theforumisdown.com/upload...0702/Billy.jpg
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 04:36 PM   #13
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what services did you guys disable?

honestly, i have no idea which ones to disable..
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 04:50 PM   #14
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I wouldn't be surprised if there was no DirectX 9 for 98, as MS is trying to phase out 98 for the same reasons they don't support NT 4 anymore.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 05:17 PM   #15
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what services did you guys disable?

honestly, i have no idea which ones to disable..
Here's a few guides with more insight! This really should be in the operating system forum though! http://www.deviantpc.com/forums/show...&threadid=1926 http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,10918,00.asp http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/wi...rvices-3.shtml
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 05:36 PM   #16
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I wouldn't be surprised if there was no DirectX 9 for 98, as MS is trying to phase out 98 for the same reasons they don't support NT 4 anymore.
I think they will be releasing dx9 final version with the final version of sp1 for xp.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 06:15 PM   #17
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I wouldn't be surprised if there was no DirectX 9 for 98, as MS is trying to phase out 98 for the same reasons they don't support NT 4 anymore.
Because they realize it's a better OS than all of the invasive PoS they've released since?
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 06:44 PM   #18
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My .02

Every current OS I’ve wanted to upgrade to the next (3.11->95->98/SE->ME (50 bucks who could complain!!)->XP). But until some major (next best) thing comes up I’m going to stick with XP (PRO). Where w2k focused mostly on stability (at the coast of home usability) XP has that right balance or backdoors, exploits and backwards compatibility.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 07:06 PM   #19
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What is it about Windows ME that makes it that much different from 98SE?
I've had a ME CD for a while, but, from all I've read about it - and from the experience of those I know who used it (notice past tense), I decided to stick with 98SE.

Once XP's SP1 is released, I may, at that time, or soon afterwards, give some serious consideration to getting it. However, I would be getting mine via the purchase of a newer computer. It's been over two years since my last major CPU/Motherboard upgrade, so it's way past my usual time span for doing so. This way I get a new system that comes with XP and don't have to lay out separate funds for it.

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Old Jul 24, 2002, 07:21 PM   #20
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No support for 98SE?

Damn, gotta pirate another OS.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 08:22 PM   #21
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I can see that how it might NOT be officially supported. There's not a HUGE difference between 95 & 98 (granted the difference between 98 & ME is a lot less), but DirectX 8.1 DOES say that it does not support windows 95.

So there is a precedent.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 08:35 PM   #22
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 09:50 PM   #23
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you people are dumb. did you even see my post above? :/
Win98 and Win95 uses the VXD system to make drivers. From what it looks like, ATI are sick of using that system to support an aging os, so they've moved to the WDM system of making drivers. WinME drivers will work for Win98SE, becuase it uses the WDM system. The ifirst edition of Win98 unfortunetly dosen't.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 10:25 PM   #25
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you people are dumb. did you even see my post above? :/
Win98 and Win95 uses the VXD system to make drivers. From what it looks like, ATI are sick of using that system to support an aging os, so they've moved to the WDM system of making drivers. WinME drivers will work for Win98SE, becuase it uses the WDM system. The ifirst edition of Win98 unfortunetly dosen't.
If that is the only reason, why did they not support Win95 with DX8.1? Obviously, MS is trying to move away from the older OSs altogether. I'm just surprised they included WinME support for the card.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 10:35 PM   #26
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See this page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle.asp?gssnb=1

Microsoft is putting Windows 98 in "extended phase," which means they are ending free support for these products. You can still buy support from them though. By next year, Microsoft is going to throwing 98 in the "salvage" pile. So it is entirely possible that MS themselves will stop supporting 98 very soon, possibly encouraging ATI to stop supporting 98.
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Old Jul 24, 2002, 10:54 PM   #27
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you people are dumb. did you even see my post above? :/
Win98 and Win95 uses the VXD system to make drivers. From what it looks like, ATI are sick of using that system to support an aging os, so they've moved to the WDM system of making drivers. WinME drivers will work for Win98SE, becuase it uses the WDM system. The ifirst edition of Win98 unfortunetly dosen't.
Since when? Why can you use Win 98 (first edition) drivers in Win ME systems and vice versa? (except of course for some things like USB) And CANNOT use Win2000 drivers in ME?

Because they both use the VxD format!

The only difference is that Win ME has more checks to see if the drivers are digitally signed or not. Otherwise, they are the same stuff.

Before you call people stupid, check your facts
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Win98 SE if I recall correclty only has WDM 1.0 which was MS's test bed for WDM. However ME, Win2K, and WinXP all feature WDM 2.0 (IIRC) and hence allowing a company to realse one driver file to support three OS's at once.


Proof:

http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/kb_ftp/585ftp.asp

Turtle Beach for their Santa Cruz sound card only use's one Driver file to support ME, Win2K and WinXP, whilst the Win98 SE WDM driver is kept seperate.

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Win98 SE if I recall correclty only has WDM 1.0 which was MS's test bed for WDM. However ME, Win2K, and WinXP all feature WDM 2.0 (IIRC) and hence allowing a company to realse one driver file to support three OS's at once.


Proof:

http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/kb_ftp/585ftp.asp

Turtle Beach for their Santa Cruz sound card only use's one Driver file to support ME, Win2K and WinXP, whilst the Win98 SE WDM driver is kept seperate.

ss1.
win me, though, still uses the win9x Vxd as well.

Proof?

Same web site as you put in, I got this line

s481me9x.zip 20670457 03-27-01 WINDOWS 9x, ME | VxD drivers v.4081 |
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No support for 98SE?

Damn, gotta pirate another OS.

and i gotta swap out my key
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