Re: Operating System not found loop problem

Posted on 2022-02-12, 07:18

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by john_popani

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leileilol wrote on 2022-02-12, 06:04: Check those boot disks for viruses too. It's an original boot disk, only used to install windows on this machine, I'm afraid that's not the issue.

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Re: Operating System not found loop problem

Posted on 2022-02-12, 07:18

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Warlord wrote on 2022-02-12, 00:30: Fdisk /mbr i can't reach Fdisk, it never reaches the option for a command prompt. It simply goes to that screen and i have to reset the pc. Even if i change the boot settings it still goes there.

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Operating System not found loop problem

Posted on 2022-02-11, 15:47

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Hello, I turned my win98 pc the other day and i got a black screen with "Operating System not found". No matter what i try to do i always get to this point. Forcing the boot to start with the floppy/cd doesn't seem to work. I tried 3 other blank hard disks but i still get this error. Anyone have an …

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Re: Turok 2 Seeds of Evil doesn't start / Windows 98 SE/ Voodoo 3 2000

Posted on 2021-12-09, 16:32

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looks like you have the incorrect version game installed for the patch maybe there be another online to use it. sometimes its a corrupted game sometimes its a game from a dodgy source. I would look for the correct game installer myself chances are it will work well prior to this patch. I haven't …

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Re: Turok 2 Seeds of Evil doesn't start / Windows 98 SE/ Voodoo 3 2000

Posted on 2021-12-09, 15:43

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Stiletto wrote on 2021-12-08, 20:51: john_popani wrote on 2021-12-08, 19:49: I tried, but i get an error "old file doesn't exist" No problems here! Try again. https://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/4550/7/54180/download Here is what i get when i try to update the exe file Filename 0BCA1149-D505-4170- …

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Re: Turok 2 Seeds of Evil doesn't start / Windows 98 SE/ Voodoo 3 2000

Posted on 2021-12-08, 19:49

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I tried, but i get an error "old file doesn't exist"

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Turok 2 Seeds of Evil doesn't start / Windows 98 SE/ Voodoo 3 2000

Posted on 2021-12-08, 19:10

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Hello, I'm having trouble running Turok 2 on my Win98 machine. I installed the game without any issues but when i start it the cursor changes to the loading one for a second and that's it. Nothing happens after that. My specs are: Win98 SE Pentium III 733mhz 512 RAM Voodoo 3 2000 Soundblaster live …

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Sound blaster Awe64 and Z (Zed) by Bitmap brothers compatibility issues

Posted on 2021-06-07, 17:12

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Hello, I recently installed Z by the Bitmap brothers and I'm having some compatibility issues with the sound. I have an Awe64 and no matter which option I use for the sound setup the game freezes. If I set it to Awe32 the game freezes as soon as I press New game. If I set it to Soundblaster 16 or …

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Re: Show us your IBM Compatible PC games collection

Posted on 2020-12-03, 06:31

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kolderman wrote on 2020-12-02, 18:01: john_popani wrote on 2020-12-02, 17:20: Here is my PC collection so far, a few cool things are on the way and hopefully will arrive on time to put them under the tree 😁 BF5C302A-7651-45BA-BD3D-42650879C3D9.jpeg asdasd.jpg The Win98 looks so out of place up …

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Re: Show us your IBM Compatible PC games collection

Posted on 2020-12-02, 17:20

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Here is my PC collection so far, a few cool things are on the way and hopefully will arrive on time to put them under the tree 😁 The attachment BF5C302A-7651-45BA-BD3D-42650879C3D9.jpeg is no longer available Filename asdasd.jpg File size 28.62 KiB Views 1855 views

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-12-02, 17:12

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Here is my humble setup. Filename 2020-12-02 19-04-20.jpeg File size 1.45 MiB Views 4670 views There are 2 more machines below the desk, 1 for everyday use and the 98 "spoiled rich kid" machine 😁 The Compaq is a DOS build with P1 133mhz 32mb ram AWE64 S3 trio 64+ (and soon a voodoo 1)

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Re: What speaker setup are you using on your vintage machine?

Posted on 2020-12-02, 16:12

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I used to have these Saturn speakers 2019-04-07 20-06-20.jpeg but they were not in a good condition and started to distort and buzz a lot so I replaced them with these Edifiers 2020-12-02 18-03-54.jpeg and they're pretty ok. Heavy on the bass as I like but not too much highs so i will eventually …

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Re: Installing Win95 on externally connecyed HDD

Posted on 2020-11-30, 06:16

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Best bet would be to partition the laptop's internal drive and then use a bootmenu to choose what partition to boot from. Even better would be if the laptop has an mSATA in addition to the regular SATA connector (guessing it is SATA since the dock has USB 2.0). That way you could always just …

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Re: Installing Win95 on externally connecyed HDD

Posted on 2020-11-28, 20:27

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That would require you to get the hard drive recognized in DOS. While there are USB mass storage drivers for DOS, I'm not sure they work well enough to satisfy Windows 95. But even if you could install Windows 95 on the drive, how would you boot from it? You can't boot from another drive, load the …

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Installing Win95 on externally connecyed HDD

Posted on 2020-11-28, 16:11

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Hello, I have an old HDD connected to a laptop via docking station (usb2.0). Is it possible to install Win95 on it without a floppy, directly from the windows image file?

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Re: [DOS6.22][AWE64] Crazy Drake's sounds cut off after 2 seconds

Posted on 2020-10-09, 17:14

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Crazy Drake remains, the sound plays for 2 secs and cuts off. :\ I checked that game and sound cuts off when there is an IRQ problem (usually bad game config). If my card is configured with IRQ 5 but I select IRQ 7 in SETUP.EXE , I can reproduce that exact behavior. If I select IRQ 5, it works …

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Re: [DOS6.22][AWE64] Crazy Drake's sounds cut off after 2 seconds

Posted on 2020-10-09, 17:12

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Crazy Drake remains, the sound plays for 2 secs and cuts off. :\ I checked that game and sound cuts off when there is an IRQ problem (usually bad game config). If my card is configured with IRQ 5 but I select IRQ 7 in SETUP.EXE , I can reproduce that exact behavior. If I select IRQ 5, it works …

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Re: [DOS6.22][AWE64] Crazy Drake's sounds cut off after 2 seconds

Posted on 2020-10-09, 14:55

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The official DOS AWE64 driver is still available on Creative's website . If memory serves, you want the ctcmbbs.exe and sbbasic.exe packages. The versions from that page should contain everything you need to set up the card under pure DOS, including aweutil. I've installed both those, i have sound …

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Re: [DOS6.22][AWE64] Crazy Drake's sounds cut off after 2 seconds

Posted on 2020-10-08, 20:44

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You may try with Unisound to see if your card is being detected and initialized correctly: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=72553 (With Unisound, these entries from creative are not needed: C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S , C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q , C:\CTCM\CTCU /S , AWEUTIL /S Thanks I'll try it for …

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Re: [DOS6.22][AWE64] Crazy Drake's sounds cut off after 2 seconds

Posted on 2020-10-08, 20:03

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First i didn't find aweutil anywhere so i downloaded it and put it in the sb16 folder. I called it in the autoexec.bat but i got an error - ERR012: AWE32 initialization failed. Maybe I am missing something ?

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