Hm interesting. Win98 is a mistery. Anyway, nice that it worked out for you with the mempatch 😀

I might try it with CMR2, since I don’t have any connectivity on that machine. You might want to try the patches and see how far you can go. But most certainly you have another kind of patch already installed (else your 9x would not boot), and that will most probably not allow the patch from rloew …

I don‘t think it is a board issue. Rather drivers and/or ram constellation? How much ram are you running and what patches do you have installed? I did get a audigy ZS2 because I needed the dos drivers and emulation running. Something which can’t be achieved with the onboard sound. Ok what Games are …

I currently have that exact Asrock mainboard in my Retro rig. A very nice piece of hardware. I recommend installing windows without ACPI (setup.exe /p i) as with Support, my system sometimes did not boot up properly into windows.

zapbuzz reads my mind :) I did slipstream a windows 98 installation the easy method (by just dumping all the files into the win98 directory). i heard that when you put the files in the win98 dir of the installation, the installation uses those instead of the ones in the cab files - which makes this …

Could you explain how you modified the bios, how you got to dump it, and what values to what did you change? I‘m going to get an ax850 series card, and I want to replace my current 7800GS with that card due to compatibility and stability problems. I‘m afraid I‘ll run into some of the issues as well …

What a mistery! I‘m going to get myself a sata PCI card and go from there. But only for research purposes. Since I was able to use a partition over 128Gb, I can stick to 1 drive. Now I just need to fix the stability of the system when having more than 512mb ram. But I guess that I will open a …

Ok, I‘m going to give that a try and report back about my findings. Regarding Graphics drivers - no problem whatsoever. The Nvidia installer did all the work for me and there was no need to do anything afterwards.

Yep, this build is really to push the limits and see how far I can go. But at the end of the day, the stability is a killer. Quick update on my findings: I kept things simple and did as suggested: windows98SE + NUSB, and the updates from the CD + the RAM and the large Drive Patch from rloew. This …

You totally want to install the rloew memory patch. And then slap in 4 GB of RAM and it'll happily work. Crashes every now and then could also be related to drivers, don't install more than you need and don't change the hardware after installing drivers. 98 is very picky about this and i've had to …

Cheers Folks - First post here, but a long-time user of this awesome forums. I need the help of a veteran retro person :) I finally made the step to build-up a "kinda retro" system to enjoy some old 1990-2005 era games. For this I built-up a little machine with: Mainboard: AsRock 775i65G Rev2.0 CPU: …