First post, by nathanieltolbert
I have been scouring all over the place looking for a fix for this issue, and where as I have seen multiple posts with the same error message, I have tried everything that would work for set up I have an there has been no resolution. The card works perfectly fine inside Windows 98 of course, but when the machine boots and when you try to reboot into full DOS I get the following error message from SBEINIT.COM
error : Could not allocate code/patch RAM below 4 Mbyte boundary. Try loading SBEINIT.com before Smartdrv.exe or minimizing VDISK Ram.
The program does find the card and it identifies it's hardware address and the IRQ which is 10. The SB16 Emulation setting inside of Windows 98 is pretty standard a=220 i=5 d=1,5 p=330
The system hardware is as follows
ASUS P5A Super Socket 7 Motherboard
128MB PC100 CAS 2 RAM
SD to IDE adapter with 32GB drive
(note, tried on a Western Digital 20GB hard drive from the same era and got the same error)
Using the Integrated Drivers version 2.13
GeForce 2 MX video card
I found something regarding the SB Live! Value OEM cards not wanting to load the SBEINIT.COM file if a UIDE is loaded. Does this mean I can't run the board with Ultra DMA-33 running? Do I need to drop to DMA mode 1 or PIO mode 4? I am grasping at straws by this point and if there is additional information needed please let me know and I will do my best to provide it.
Regards,
Nathan