I've enjoyed installing windows 98 on old hardware; unlike windows xp, the OS installs without network authorization and runs mind of legacy software. But the

I've enjoyed installing windows 98 on old hardware; unlike windows xp, the OS installs without network authorization and runs mind of legacy software. But the couple of old towers I've gotten from friend's closets have lacked driver CDs. Once you reinstall windows (perhaps because of a bad hard drive sector) it becomes impossible to get the sound card working again or better than 16 colors out of the graphics card. Vendors like even intel no longer provide 80710E chipset drivers and the ones for download on shareware sites don't work.