Trashbytes wrote on 2023-12-27, 22:20:Not sure what the above aggro is about but try to not let it tarnish the rest of us here, not all of us behave like that to new people.
I'm so glad to hear that. I have no idea what the argument is about either! 🤣 I'll just chauk it up to the guy was having a bad day, and I was at the wrong place at the wrong time. I must had tripped a boobie trap somehow, and I'm not quite sure how. But to throw a personal insult and call me lazy... Not cool man. Just... yeah, just not cool.
But anywho, back to what this thread is about. Trashbytes had the right idea. I started off at allbootdisks.com with the Win 98 without RAM Disk. I found that I didn't need it, as I did covered USB flash drivers watching this video here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_cnTc9mMnpA
Not only did it find my USB flash drive, but it found my flashdrive formated in Fat16, which blew my mind. I then added ctmouse.exe to add my mouse on my mousepad (more on that later).
But then I discovered that I didn't have any sound drivers when booting into DOS. I looked it up and found that my Compaq Armada 1750 has a ES1869 sound card. So I did some looking, found some drivers on archive.org (which is becoming the best place for drivers now days, by the way), downloaded it, copied it off of my Fat32 USB 3.0 thumb drive (is this even real!?) And added it to my autoexect.bat.
The problem I'm running into are two fold. One is I've still not had any luck with SHCDX33F.exe. I've added it to my autoexet.bat and config.sys with some tutorials I've seen online, but no one seems to point out exactly what you need to do. Has anyone here have experience with that?
But the second half is a big one. I borrowed my dad's mouse with a PS2 to USB adapter. When I boot my laptop into DOS and move my mouse it constantly beeps. And because my autoexet auto loads Norton Commander, it presses random button presses. In Win98 it does the same. In Win98 it has to look for drivers on the Win98 CD, but it eventually works. If I plug the USB mouse strait into the only port it has, no beeping and nothing happens. In Win98 it scans for drivers off of the Win98 CD and it works great. Am I missing a proper driver? Thanks for your help guys.