First post, by Roman78
I started making a king of retro Gaming PC running Win98/W2K/WXP on a Asus A7VT400 mainboard. This is a nice small mainboard from a Asus Bearbone PC that is great for some Case mods. So i transferred it into an defective SGI Workstation and tried to install W98. But whit some Problems.
The hardware it self: Asus mainboard, socket 462, Vis Chipset. made 2003 and has W98 drivers on the Asus site. CPU is an Athlon XP running at default speed, 2083 Mhz. 256 MB ram (for installing W98, later will be upgraded). GPU is a Radeon 9600 Pro and the Harddisk is a 1TB SATA connected to PATA whit this Adapter. This works great. Cound format the harddisk whit on the Win98 CD own Fdisk program. I noticed when using other tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard often unable to boot even DOS. So Formatted the Disk using /S. Able to boot the DOS7 without any problem. Copied the content of the win98 Folder from the CD onto the harddisk and started the installation. Partition is 4 GB.
First steps works fine, rebooted, continued installation, entered user details and Key. And than it hang on detecting Hardware.
Bios is resetted cause of empty battery. Now what could it be. The Bios, the GPU or the Harddisk? Next to try is to disable all the hardware n the bios, even the sound and Networkcard. Should i enable or disable the PNP-OS function in the Bios?