>>51031607>lol. That system has PATA. Doubt it would even run XP. ???
SATA didn't even hit the mainstream until 4 years after XP came out, most XP systems used IDE drives even after that point, and XP in the beginning shipped with Pentium IIIs and would run moderately okay on older chips. Drivers are pretty easy to find, the board wouldn't need them, you'd just need to find video, audio, sound and ethernet drivers and you'd probably be good to go. Those are easy as shit, ton of archives.
OP's machine looks like maybe a late-era Pentium III coppermine box or maybe a celery if he's unlucky, even if it was an AMD K6 or older celery it would still be no problem to install 98 on it.
>Easily could take half a day to get all the files you need for the install on the right media types. That's not even counting the additional 5 or 6 reboots for installing the latest windows updates and shit. Someone who isn't completely prepared could have a full day into this shit. Sure, if you don't know how Google works.
Integrated sound drivers are probably the hardest to locate if you don't know how to identify the chipset visually, but even then if you're just going to put XP or Linux on it that's absolutely no problem, it will likely already have the drivers on disk.
>All that is not even mentioning the fact that such hardware is probably on it's last legs and if it's not already unstable it has a very limited lifespan ahead.Nah, that shitbox will probably last another 10-20 years if you take care of it. All the duds usually die out within the first five or so years and anything that survives afterwards is probably going to be okay, I have much older shit that's seen much worse treatment that runs absolutely fine.
I've done this kind of shit forever, it's not really as difficult as people make it out to be.
