First post, by BigBodZod
So, I've been doing some testing on my dual-boot legacy gaming rig with other cards besides the VooDoo 5, just to see what would and would not work and how things looked of course 😉
I've been testing using a Radeon 9550 AGP card that works just great under the Win 2K install however under Win 98-SE it's more challenging.
Mostly it's getting any driver package to work, either the official ATi or the Omega drivers cause the boot display to end up with a black screen and only a underscore character in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
This would seem to indicate that it's not finding a boot device, however, it was already in the Loading Windows boot phase when the screen blanked out and ended there with only that flashing underscore.
Since I have these on two separate HDD's I booted into DOS mode and deleted Win 98 and reinstalled just to be sure, same results.
I can reboot into safe mode, run a scandisk and then uninstall the driver package and reboot into normal mode properly, this would indicate the OS is still intact.
The strange part is that the initial install of this card and drivers worked just fine and I was actually able to play a bit with some games until during one session the screen locked up with the sound repeating over and over again.
It could be that the HDD the Win 98 installed onto is failing but the boot record is fine as I can boot into Win 2K just fine and the same card works great, in fact I played through the entire SiN game using the default open gl driver in 1280 x 1024 mode.
Since I have glide wrapper installed, I was able to try out the GlideGl mode as well, which worked but was limited to only a 1024 x 678 display.
Anybody know if an ATi or Omega driver package that works best with Win 98-SE ????
I have somebody checking on some nVidia chipset, agp cards for me to test with, the only other one I could find was the MX-440 card, suppose it would be fine for testing this out in regards to the Win 98 driver issues.
No matter where you go, there you are...
