The minimum hardware requirements for Microsoft Windows 95 are:
>A personal computer with a 386DX, 20MHz or higher processor, running the MS-DOS operating system version 3.2 or later, or running Microsoft Windows version 3.0 or later, or running OS/2 version 2.0 or later
>Note: Do not install Windows 95 on a computer with a B1 (stepping) chip.
>4MB of memory (8MB recommended)
>At least 70MB of available hard disk space for installation
>Actual requirements may vary based on features you choose to install. UITS recommends that you keep at least 10% of the drive free to reduce errors and fragmentation; therefore, on a 1GB drive, keep 100MB free.
>One 3.5" high-density disk drive or a CD-ROM drive
>VGA or higher resolution graphics card
After going through some Tom’s Hardware posts, it sounds like one of the B1 chips at that time was unable to do power saving modes? Maybe win 95 was incompatible with that?
Intel 386 microprocessors dated before April 1987 are known as B1 stepping
chips. These chips are known to introduce random math errors when performing
32-bit operations, thus making them incompatible with Windows 95.
Oh yeah:
What’s this B1 chip?
I was also curious.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000057218/processors.html
After going through some Tom’s Hardware posts, it sounds like one of the B1 chips at that time was unable to do power saving modes? Maybe win 95 was incompatible with that?
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/b1-vs-c1-stepping.297173/post-1974732
Edit: back with more info https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/119/Q119118/
So I was wrong.