following up to the drive issues (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=79606) I was having with the SN41G2 I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on what has been going on with the CMOS settings on it. Symptoms: 1. System would report floppy drive error and date/time lost on POST - going …

Check it outside of the case - I once had a similar problem where the cause was an unnecessary motherboard standoff that was grounding out the board. In another case, there was hard to see corrosion on the CR2032's battery holder contacts. no luck I'm afraid - cleaned the battery contacts (they …

well after all that it looks like bad luck strikes again - machine will not keep its' BIOS settings after being disconnected from mains power - new CMOS battery tried as well - looks like my initial issues with the drive might have been something failing in the machine and the CMOS being corrupted. …

Warlord wrote on 2021-02-20, 11:11: did you try flashing the bios. You need a patch to to use such a large hard drive on 98se but it wont fix BIOS limitations Doh! flashed it to the latest (FN41S032) and Windows 98SE is now reporting 381GB - thanks Warlord, always good to have a 2nd pair of eyes …

Hi All, First off, I'm new here so hi to everyone! Got myself a Shuttle SN41G2 (FN41 motherboard) that has an Athlon XP 2700+, nForce2 chipset, 1GB RAM and has ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb AGP and Creative Audigy 2ZS PCI cards fitted. My plan is to get Windows 98SE running on the system for old games …