Jorpho wrote on 2021-04-15, 17:26:It's hardly unknown for SD cards to have problems – though at least a 4GB card is unlikely to be a much smaller card that has be […]
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It's hardly unknown for SD cards to have problems – though at least a 4GB card is unlikely to be a much smaller card that has been faked somehow.
Were you removing the card from the reader when you were installing the driver for your voodoo3? Also, what package were you using to install those drivers?
So you think the SD card somehow did something to the system.ini file?
I don't know exactly what you mean by "I couldn't go into safe mode... error, dos prompt... missing files", but that sure sounds like there were problems with more than just system.ini.
Sorry I was typing on my phone at the time, I will try to be more accurate here. Here is what I did:
(mobo is a 440bx epox mobo with Pentium 3 600mhz, slot 1, 512 MB SD RAM 133 running at 100mhz 2-2-2 timings)
First attempt
Used a 4GB SD card in an IDE to SD card reader. Reader is using primary IDE slot.
CD/DVD rom drive is IDE using 2nd IDE slot on Motherboard.
Booted to win 98 se OEM CD, Ran DOS with CD support from there.
Created new partition using Fdisk
rebooted PC and booted to CD again and back to DOS
Change directory to D:\win98\ and ran format c: /s
Then created directory on c: \windows\options\cabs
Copied files from D:\win98*.* to cabs
Installed windows from cabs folder on C:
Windows install completed
First thing windows did after booting, was detect my monitor, so I told it the driver was in the C:\windows\options\cabs folder.
Once in windows I tried installing voodoo 3 drivers 1.07.00-WHQL from Phils site. I ran setup.exe and was prompted to reboot.
I rebooted the system and I received an error saying system.ini was missing and that I needed to run windows 98 setup again.
I tried booting (using F8) and selecting DOS prompt. It said 2 files were missing or corrupted "C:\windows\dblbuff.sys" and "C:\windows\ifshlp.sys"
I tried booting into safemode and got a blue screen saying "VFAT Device Initialization Failed" and "A device or resource required by VFAT is not present or is unavailable... etc"
I thought it might have been a fluke so I tried again.
2nd attempt:
Did everything I did the first time except I installed the chipset drivers first.
After this, I rebooted the system and turned on DMA for the C drive.
I rebooted and same errors again. Missing system.ini.
I don't know if its just a crappy SD card, this is a strange error I've never seen before I I did lots of Tech support in the early 00's and used win98 extensively.
It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life.