Edit: I noticed this thread about another EPROM programmer that seems to work for what you need: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=79620 I have an older one of those (TL866CS) and can confirm that it works fine for burning BIOS EEPROMs, or at least it did with the type I tried it with ( …

OTOH, if your BIOS can't be upgraded and you're stuck with the 8 GB limit, grab a CF to IDE adapter and use a Compact Flash card. They work fine for pure DOS gaming but become a bit sluggish under Win98. My CF card (which is a new SanDisk UDMA7 card, 32 GB) isn't sluggish in Windows 98 at all; it …

I just noticed a new problem with SE: when I select "shutdown" it restarts instead. "Disable Fast Shutdown" in msconfig is selected by default, though I tried deselecting it but it didn't make a difference. I also removed the 1 GB of RAM and put in 512 MB, but that didn't change anything either. I …

I got Windows 98 SE installed again, and DMA for the CF drive was not enabled by default like it was in FE, and enabling it solved the issue with the slow drive and freezing/lagging mouse pointer during disk activity, so thanks for that suggestion. In fact, the benchmark is actually higher now than …

If you are trying to write a file larger than 4 GB to a FAT32 partition, then that would do it. It's an NTFS partition in XP. I have XP and 98 FE, dual boot, on the old Maxtor HDD (I've left it disconnected since putting the CF card in there), so I put the CF card on the secondary IDE channel and …

We know that you know lots of things about computers. ? Try some of the suggestions. I can't check right now because SE is gone Before I install SE again to try anything, I want an image of the CF card with FE on it, but the first tool I tried (HDD Raw Copy Tool) isn't working ("write error 5 can …

DMA will not necessarily be enabled in the OS merely because it is enabled in the BIOS. One way to check would be in Device Manager. I can't check right now because SE is gone, but it's enabled by default in FE: https://i.imgur.com/lFe2qa2.png Does it get enabled by default in SE? By the time …

Did you enable DMA? What about write alignment? You want to partition flash storage on a modern computer first to get the best performance. Enable DMA where? It's enabled by default in the BIOS; it enables it when it detects an 80-wire IDE cable rather than a 40-wire. I partitioned the CF card in …

Whenever I've installed Windows 98 SE, I always get an hourglass beside the mouse pointer for 10 or 15 seconds after the desktop loads. It does that from the very first boot on a fresh install, and I've never been able to fix it, not even by disabling every startup item in msconfig. Windows 98 FE …