Greetings CH!
Its been a while, but I have finally completed (at least the hardware part) of my classic gaming PC! I will list specs down below for those interested, but I need your help in the software department a bit.
The computer seems to struggle at unzipping files, odd for a 1ghz Coppermine CPU, and often times even freezes. So far, I've installed Windows 98 SE, got USB drivers, GPU and Chipset drivers installed, Got DX9c installed and attempted to install the unofficial windows 98SE Service pack update, when I received an error that states the following,
"Extracting File Failed. It is most likely caused by low memory (low disk space for swapping file) or Corrupted Cabinet file."
Now I've used computers with slower Cpu's in Windows 98SE and I had no issues like extracting the update, opening files on USB, or in the case of this computer, it freeze when even coping data from my USB.
I have one suspicion and thats my CF card "hard drive" but im not sure how id fix the issue. Instead of using a traditional hard drive, I decided to get a IDE adapter, and it has a 16gb CF card for its drive. I had my last two IDE drives fail on me, so im not really in the mood to trust any more.
Specs are
Spacewalker AV11 Motherboard
1ghz Coppermine Pentium 3 CPU
Chaintech Nvidia 4200Ti GPU @ 128mb
16gb CF card
256 + 128MB of SD RAM
And I think its a AWE 32 SoundBlaster card.
I plan to use this rig to play some of my classics like my classic need for speed collection, GTA VC, DOOM series, Titanic adventure out of time, GTA2 etc. So getting it running smoothly would be great. Appreciate your help in advance. Thanks.