Are there Win 98 or Win ME drivers for MS-7525 motherboard?

[davidinhawaii]

I have an old MS-7525 mobo that I was thinking of making in to a stand alone system running win98/SE/ME to play old win95/98 games natively but since HP no longer supports these mobos its really hard to find drivers.  Has anyone tried to do something like this and is it worth the trouble?  I tried using VM / DOS box but some old games will simply not play

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

From the information I could find the motherboard was used in the HP Compaq dx2390 Microtower PC which still has driver support.

OEM MSI MS-7525 VER:1.0 (Boston-GL6) - Specs | Manual | Drivers | BIOS | Download (soggi.org)

As you can see from the list of drivers available, the motherboard was never supported by HP for anything older than Windows XP.

HP Compaq dx2390 Microtower PC Software and Driver Downloads | HP® Support

[davidinhawaii]

Thanks for the info, I guess I have to look for something a little older for a Win98 system

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I don't know how much money you want to spend but I recommend that you look into an old Dell Optiplex GX260 tower which has driver support for Windows 98. 

Support for OptiPlex GX260 | Drivers & Downloads | Dell US

That is the newest PC I can think of that where you can still find support for W98:

optiplex gx260 in Desktops & All-In-Ones for sale | eBay

[davidinhawaii]

Hi Paul, Thanks for the recommendation, I'll take a look on ebay to see if anything is worth the trouble/cost.  So funny that I remember working on those GX260/270 systems while I was the computer administrator / design engineer for the entire engineering section (about 125 systems) back in the 1990's.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Yes, I remember them too, starting with the old Optiplex GXa's, when our company had a contract with Dell, and we had them all the way to the GX270's, then switched to HP.

I remember buying an off-lease GX260 on eBay for around $130 years ago.

I buy both Dell and HP desktop business PC's for my personal use.

This is being posted from a Dell Optiplex 7020 MT.