Alistar1776 wrote on 2022-08-21, 19:14:

... to reinstall the OS on the hardware i want to use...

That wouldn´t hurt! 😉

Have you tried another boot disk? Are you hearing the floppy drive reading the disk then stopping?

Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-08-21, 19:47:

Have you tried another boot disk? Are you hearing the floppy drive reading the disk then stopping?

I havent tried another boot disk, no. But the drive does read the disk, then stops. Im using a known working drive, disk, and cable.

With the failure rate of floppy disks, I would definitely try more than one. If you've tried several that will get the the A: in other systems, I would then strip the system down to a barebones configuration and see if you can get to the A: then. I'd also try a bootable CD of any operating system just to see if that works. Try and format the hard drive with Super Fdisk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ivV5tyfRs

Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-08-21, 21:05:

With the failure rate of floppy disks, I would definitely try more than one. If you've tried several that will get the the A: in other systems, I would then strip the system down to a barebones configuration and see if you can get to the A: then.

Agree ! Think that is Gibbs rule #11 😁

Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-08-21, 21:05:

With the failure rate of floppy disks, I would definitely try more than one. If you've tried several that will get the the A: in other systems, I would then strip the system down to a barebones configuration and see if you can get to the A: then. I'd also try a bootable CD of any operating system just to see if that works. Try and format the hard drive with Super Fdisk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ivV5tyfRs

Update, formatted a different floppy and rewrote the win 95 boot disk, alls working good now. couple small issues id like to address tho. Upon bootup, when is detecting drives, it detects the primary hdd proper, but when detecting the cdrom, it says "Primary Slave error: ATAPI Incompatible" yet, i can press F1 to continue booting, and it all works fine. More of an inconvenience, really.

Secondly, I have a little breakout board, that has USB, PS/2, and IR that for some reason the system isnt detecting the mouse i have plugged into the PS/2 port.

If it's a known good PS/2 mouse, I'd begin by making sure all of the wires for the PS/2 connector on the adapter have continuity (are the USB ports good?). If yes, then find the pin out for the PS/2 mouse header and make sure the wiring is correct. If yes, then check for voltage on the pins. This image is an example - your motherboard may be different.

I am too tired to search that other "Windows 95 Gaming?" thread. What motherboard are you using ?

Horun wrote on 2022-08-22, 00:30:

I am too tired to search that other "Windows 95 Gaming?" thread. What motherboard are you using ?

The board Im using is a PCChips M590 Socket 7 board

Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-08-22, 00:05:

If it's a known good PS/2 mouse, I'd begin by making sure all of the wires for the PS/2 connector on the adapter have continuity (are the USB ports good?). If yes, then find the pin out for the PS/2 mouse header and make sure the wiring is correct. If yes, then check for voltage on the pins. This image is an example - your motherboard may be different.

Unfortunately, I dont have a multimeter available, and im not quite certain what i could plug into a usb port on a win95 system to see if it works

Alistar1776 wrote on 2022-08-22, 00:59:

Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-08-22, 00:05:

If it's a known good PS/2 mouse, I'd begin by making sure all of the wires for the PS/2 connector on the adapter have continuity (are the USB ports good?). If yes, then find the pin out for the PS/2 mouse header and make sure the wiring is correct. If yes, then check for voltage on the pins. This image is an example - your motherboard may be different.

Unfortunately, I dont have a multimeter available, and im not quite certain what i could plug into a usb port on a win95 system to see if it works

Well, that's a bit of a problem on both counts. I used Win95 for a few months spanning from October of 2000 to maybe April of 2001. Can anyone chime in? Does a working USB port at least show up in Device Manager as an unknown device?

Alistar1776 wrote on 2022-08-21, 23:10:

Upon bootup, when is detecting drives, it detects the primary hdd proper, but when detecting the cdrom, it says "Primary Slave error: ATAPI Incompatible" yet, i can press F1 to continue booting, and it all works fine. More of an inconvenience, really.

Is ATA cable from drive to board correctly connected? Pin 1 (obviously red marking on cable) on pin 1 at both of drive and board connectors? It is 40 or 80 wires version?

Secondly, I have a little breakout board, that has USB, PS/2, and IR that for some reason the system isnt detecting the mouse i have plugged into the PS/2 port.

There is a PS/2 mouse support option in BIOS setup (in Advanced CMOS setup) - you have this set to enable?

cdrom might be jumpitred for slave/master instead of single device

Ydee wrote on 2022-08-22, 06:52:

Is ATA cable from drive to board correctly connected? Pin 1 (obviously red marking on cable) on pin 1 at both of drive and board […]
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Alistar1776 wrote on 2022-08-21, 23:10:

Upon bootup, when is detecting drives, it detects the primary hdd proper, but when detecting the cdrom, it says "Primary Slave error: ATAPI Incompatible" yet, i can press F1 to continue booting, and it all works fine. More of an inconvenience, really.

Is ATA cable from drive to board correctly connected? Pin 1 (obviously red marking on cable) on pin 1 at both of drive and board connectors? It is 40 or 80 wires version?

Secondly, I have a little breakout board, that has USB, PS/2, and IR that for some reason the system isnt detecting the mouse i have plugged into the PS/2 port.

There is a PS/2 mouse support option in BIOS setup (in Advanced CMOS setup) - you have this set to enable?

Im not sure how to tell if its 40 or 80 wires, but pin 1 is to pin 1 as far as im able to tell. PS/2 mouse support is enabled, just turned the system on to verify

rasz_pl wrote on 2022-08-22, 15:39:

cdrom might be jumpitred for slave/master instead of single device

Made sure CD-Rom is jumped as slave only. Same issue.

for best compatibility use second ide channel just for cdrom

Alistar1776 wrote on 2022-08-23, 05:53:

Im not sure how to tell if its 40 or 80 wires, but pin 1 is to pin 1 as far as im able to tell. PS/2 mouse support is enabled, just turned the system on to verify

Which CD/DVD drive you have connected - brand and model?
Is the HDD connected to the last connector on the cable and the drive to the middle one? Have you another ATA cable? If yes, try replace.
About PS/2 - you have a multimeter? If so, you can measure the PS/2 connector on the bracket. You should measure about +5V on red-marked pins, put a needle or pin in it and measure on it.

Ydee wrote on 2022-08-23, 07:14:

Which CD/DVD drive you have connected - brand and model?
Is the HDD connected to the last connector on the cable and the drive to the middle one? Have you another ATA cable? If yes, try replace.
About PS/2 - you have a multimeter? If so, you can measure the PS/2 connector on the bracket. You should measure about +5V on red-marked pins, put a needle or pin in it and measure on it.

CD drive is a Sony NEC Optiarc. hdd is connected to the very end, and jumped to master, cd rom is connected to the middle plug and jumped as slave. It should be noted that the issue arises with various models of cd rom drives, across various cables. If not upon first boot, then next boot it throws the compatibility error. But, as mentioned, i can tell it continue and everything still works fine.

I do not have a multimeter to check the ps/2 issue.

rasz_pl wrote on 2022-08-23, 06:00:

for best compatibility use second ide channel just for cdrom

tried it. same issue