First post, by borgie83
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Hi, I've got a problem with my new Pentium II rig. It's running Windows 98 SE. Whilst within windows, everything works as it should. Runs fantastic actually with no issues at all. My problem is within Dos 7. Navigating around dos is fine but as soon as I try to install any drivers eg sound blaster awe32 or GUS, the system hangs/freezes and I'm forced to reset the pc. Even if I go to run a game eg Hexen and set the sound to no sound the system hangs again. I cannot seem to run any software nor install any drivers within Dos. Everything just hangs when I either run the install.bat files or run the game executable file. Very strange as I've never encountered this before on my various dos rigs. I'm thinking my issue may be related to memory even though the memory has been tested in other rigs and works fine in those. I also can't seem to update the bios from P16 to P17. Give me an invalid disk error on boot up. Figured it might of been a bios issue but I honestly don't know unfortunately 🙁
The specs are as follows:
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Pentium II 450Mhz CPU
Kingston 384mb Ram (3x128mb)
Western Digital Caviar SE 120Gb IDE Hard Drive
TNT2 Ultra AGP Graphics Card
Voodoo 2 12mb in SLI
Diamond MX300 PCI Sound Card
Sound blaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card
Gravis Ultrasound Classic ISA Sound Card
Yes I'm aware there is 3 sound cards obviously, the MX300 is used only for windows whilst the 2 ISA sound cards are only for dos sound.
I should also note that I've tried running the pc with basically nothing loaded in the config.sys and autoexec.bat files except for the cdrom drive but still no luck. If I do load even a small bit extra I get memory issues when loading windows. Hence the reason I believe this is a memory issue.