Dual Booting Windows 98 + XP on the Packard Bell iMedia PC and performing minor upgrades

Hi. Welcome to a follow up video on this recently restored Packard Bell iMedia Desktop PC from around 2002, featuring a Pentium 4 Northwood processor and an ATI Radeon 9200. In this video you’ll see me performing some minor upgrades, such as upgrading the RAM from 256MB to 2GB, and attempting to perform a dual boot with Windows 98 and Windows XP. There were some difficulties along the way, mostly due to incompetence on my part, but I hope it will still be a fun watch regardless. Enjoy!

*Featured Sources and Software*
Pentium 4 CPU Specs List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_4_processors
GParted v1.6.0-10 i686: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/1.6.0-10/
FreeDOS: https://www.freedos.org/
ASRock P4i65G Motherboard Drivers: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/asrock-p4i65g
ATI Radeon Windows 98 Drivers: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/radeon-9x-drivers.html
C-Media Audio Drivers: https://archive.org/details/C-Media-PCI-Audio-Drivers-2.73
Joseph’s Audigy2 ZS Drivers for Live! Cards: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/sound-blaster-live.html
Windows 98 Limitations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98#Limitations
Patchmem: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/rudolph-r-loew-patches.html
Windows 98 USB Storage Driver: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/windows-98-usb-storage-driver.html
3DMark Legacy Versions: https://benchmarks.ul.com/legacy-benchmarks
Sound Blaster Live! SB0220 Driver CD: https://archive.org/details/sb-install_202009
Windows 98 Update CD 2.23: https://archive.org/details/win41-upd

*Chapters*
00:00 Intro
02:38 01. Performing minor upgrades
06:58 02. Power on test and configuring BIOS
08:41 03. Erasing the hard drive using GParted
10:52 04. Creating and formatting FAT32 partition (with difficulty)
13:00 05. Booting into FreeDOS + Editing system.ini
14:08 06. Setting up Windows 98
15:46 07. Installing drivers
18:20 08. 3DMark2000 stability test
18:46 09. Installing and testing Sound Blaster card
25:09 10. Applying Patchmem to fix blue screens
26:40 11. Windows 98 functionality demo
31:47 12. Installing Windows XP + configuring dual boot
34:36 13. Installing service packs + drivers
35:58 14. 3DMark03 stability test
36:29 15. Modifying boot.ini
37:12 Conclusion

*Music Credits*
Simon Robertson & Stephen Root – Title Music [From Extreme-G, 1997]
Unknown Artist – Main Menu BGM [From ToCA World Touring Cars, 2000]
Sasha – “Goteki 45” [From WipEout 3, 1999]
Stewart Copeland – Dry Canyon Level BGM [From Spyro The Dragon, 1998]
Gary Scargill & Peter Oldroyd – “Hypertronic” [From ToCA Touring Car Championship, 1997]
Vonsnake – “Hyperion” [From BallisticNG, 2016]
Jonathan Colling – Arcade Music 8 [From Colin McRae Rally 2.0, 2000]
Josh Mancell – Boss Challenge Level BGM [From Crash Team Racing, 1999]
The Human Error – “Ghost Army” [From the album Ghost Army Deception, 2025]
Nagz – “Rob Me If You Can” [BGM From Sumotori Dreams, 2007]
Jonathan Colling – “2005 FMV Extended Version” [From Colin McRae Rally 2005]
Sasha – “Feisar” [From WipEout 3, 1999]

Дата на публикация: 12 април, 2026
Категория: Наука и технология
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