First post, by senrew
- Rank
- Oldbie
I'm at a loss for how to get past a couple of problems with my DOS rig.
I'm running:
Aopen AX59pro SS7 MB, MVP3 chipset
P200mmx
128MB RAM
Diamond Stealth 4000
Voodoo 1
I have two partitions, one with pure dos 6.22 and Win95 installed to a seperate partition.
Issue 1:
I originally tried to get this to work with a vortex2 cartd with a xr385 daughterboard, but at the driver installation for the card, it will just hang up when installing the gameport driver. From what I could find online, the vortex cards have issues with MVP3 boards running AGP video and PCI audio. They recommended installing the latest 4-in-1 drivers. I installed DOS, then win95, then the VIA drivers, then video, then the Vortex drivers. I rebooted between each driver. The Vortex drivers install, then you must reboot so that it can identify each component. When it gets to the gameport portion, it locks up and hangs.
Anyone experience this and have any clue around it? I said screw it and swapped out the vortex for my CT2490 with the daughterboard. I figure i can deal with the hanging notes until I get a better ISA card or figure out how to get around the vortex issue.
Which leads me to...
Issue 2:
I've been fucking around with this rig for weeks now. Sometimes, after making changes, upon reboot, the machine will hang at the point between checking for a bootable CD, and booting from the hard drive. It will show it didn't find a bootable CD, and move on to the hard drive part, where it will just sit until I turn it off.
I had asked about this in another tread once, and was told to use smaller paritions or something due to using such a much newer hard drive on the older controller on this board.
I formatted it with DOS as it's going to be a DOS/Win95 machine only. It saw 8gb out of the 40gb drive, I made 4 partitions to use up all the space, 2/2/2/1.8 or something is how fdisk divided it up.
Anyway. I've tried fixing the mbr, and other such things, but once this happens, I have no way of booting from the hard drive. I can boot from CD or Floppy just fine. I've tried booting from a floppy and reversing whatever changes to the startup files I made just before the lock up but it still doesn't help.
Any suggestions? I'm really at the point were I want to just burn this rig to the ground and start over with a more predictable TX or VX board or something.
Halcyon: PC Chips M525, P100, 64MB, Millenium 1, Voodoo1, AWE64, DVD, Win95B