What's the deal with windows 98 and usb support?

[Mark Kaine]

i have an old pentium Fujitsu Ergo Pro X, it has usb ports but i cant get them to work at all. is there any way to install drivers (which ones) or does 98 just not support usb?

maybe i need a BIOS update? 

[HanZie82]

Install latest service pack.
I think that came with USB drivers. (it's been a while, im not 100% sure).

[Murasaki]

It should support USB afaik. Could just try with generic USB drivers like this https://archive.org/details/usb-20-driver-win-98

[thrasher_565]

9 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

i have an old pentium Fujitsu Ergo Pro X, it has usb ports but i cant get them to work at all. is there any way to install drivers (which ones) or does 98 just not support usb?

maybe i need a BIOS update? 

98se might or might not but 98 you have to install everything.

 

https://www.philscomputerlab.com/windows-98-usb-storage-driver.html

 

if it dont work then might have to buy a pci to usb that's what i had to do...

 

the unofficial services pack has it thow need a way to get it on there... burn it i guess.

Edited March 28, 2023 by thrasher_565

[HanZie82]

1 minute ago, thrasher_565 said:

98se might or might not but 98 you have to install everything.

Oh yeah that was it, Needs SE for USB to work automagicly.

Else you will need to install drivers on a per USB-device basis.

[thrasher_565]

1 minute ago, HanZie82 said:

Oh yeah that was it, Needs SE for USB to work automagicly.

Else you will need to install drivers on a per USB-device basis.

ya but dose not work on all mbs...

 

i also remember my dad installing something off the install cd but that could have been for xp?

Edited March 28, 2023 by thrasher_565

[HanZie82]

2 minutes ago, thrasher_565 said:

ya but dose not work on all mbs...

 

i also remember my dad installing something off the install cd but that could have been for xp?

Yeah for XP it was Service pack 3 that enabled USB2 support i think.
Back then service packs did come on CD's.

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, HanZie82 said:

Yeah for XP it was Service pack 3 that enabled USB2 support i think.
Back then service packs did come on CD's.

yeah so i would need a cd with drivers for 98 basically?  

 

I still don't know which are the *real*  or working drivers tho?

 

2 hours ago, HanZie82 said:

Install latest service pack.
I think that came with USB drivers. (it's been a while, im not 100% sure).

oh ok, so this?

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.philscomputerlab.com/windows-service-packs.html&ved=2ahUKEwjWpsjwm__9AhXkN-wKHfGKDV8QFnoECAkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1vxd9rbrarwUUl-jfaFMDY

[Omores]

Maybe your USB is disabled from BIOS? It was typical for computer of that era to have USB off by default.

 

Windows 98SE has good USB support, even USB audio. So if you have some "gaming"  USB headphones they will be recognized. I have a professional USB to SPDIF tool - and it was recognized in Windows 98. (it's gadget that can be bought new)

 

Use a PCI to USB card, with VIA chipset. It will be recognized as USB 1.1 with default Windows 98 drivers. USB 2.0 can be unlocked by installing the official drivers.

 

I have a VIA PCI-E to USB card (basically the same PCI hardware but with an embedded PCI-e to PCI bridge) and I use it on any PCI-E only set up, to run Windows 98 on real hardware. Like on this Coffee Lake refresh platform: