Nice work! I was having this issue under qemu+whpx with an 11 gen intel CPU. I could work around it but this is a better fix Re: Qemu + whpx accel + win98 guest DLL corruption

Thanks I think you are correct and I stumbled upon a related patch @ Patch for Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me to run on newest CPUs Having applied it the VM now works as expected 😀

Ok I sort of resolved this first by disabling protected mode drivers in the Win 98 guest. Unfortunately that meant that the CD ROM also disappeared but rather than set that up in DOS I achieved the same result by disabling the primary IDE channel in System -> Devices. That had the same effect of …

I am running qemu on a Windows 11 host with whpx turned on. On one laptop running a 10th Intel Core i9 CPU everything works great but the exact same guest image copied over to another laptop with an 11th Gen Intel Core i5 does strange things when launching executables inside the win98 guest. The top …

I desoldered the chip using the second method, cleaned up the pads and the laptop is happy to POST without it and does now reboot properly when exiting the BIOS. Reading the IC specs I think this is simply a bus connector for the docking port so I may well be able to get away without a replacement …

Some progress. This bus controller IC gets really really hot - too hot to touch after a few minutes of the motherboard being powered up. Given its proximity to the docking connector that would seem to make sense however I'm not sure if the fact it is getting hot is because it itself is shorted …

No continuity problems. I also removed cpu heatsink and fan and found a couple of extra fuses but these check out ok too. Guess I will try the VCC on the sound chip itself next.

Hi, Yes I have a multi meter so doing some continuity tests shouldn't be a problem. Here are some high res images. 1. Damaged docking connector. You can see where it is bowed and this is where I ran the penknife blade through. https://box.sbbsystems.com/cloud/index.php/s/kK5iJE4S225tF5X/preview 2. …

Hi, I bought a couple of n600c laptops with a view to combining parts and making one that was in good overall condition for retro gaming. Both were fully functional on arrival which I tested by swapping out a hard disk with Win98 SE installed. Then I did a silly thing. The docking station connector …