I unplugged the power-supply fan in this little guy, so I think it qualifies... I like that idea and didn't realize such a device existed, thanks for sharing. I'm wondering how you configure the drive geometry in the BIOS for it? I've got an older 486 mobo that this looks like a great solution but …

Thanks for the extensive reply. What I was referring to is this: I had completely forgotten that Win98 would have the option of booting into the "previous version of MS-DOS". Somehow I thought that by "previous version" it meant its own 7.10. So let's say I have a drive C in FAT16, where I install …

So the procedure for unhidden partitions is as described in this page ? Assuming one optical drive, MS-DOS would be on C, Win98 on E and WinXP on F, correct ? But if Win98 requires the boot files to be on C, how can one boot to MS-DOS 6.22 when partitions are unhidden ? In Dos and WIN9X, hard …

I always have all my partitions unhidden without problems. In fact it makes it easier since the drive letters stay the same in all OS. But I use XP's boot manager rather than true separate boot partions. If you use true boot partitions you can only have 1 active at a time.

I've got a similar configuration, I dual boot Win98SE and WinXP and I configured my boot hard drive into 2 partitions, a 512MB Fat16 as C and the rest as FAT32 as D. Win98 is installed on D, (I have 2 more HD's with XP installed on the third in the F partion). Even though I don't have Dos on my boot …

Roland had a utility that remapped the mt32/lapc to emulate general midi. Scroll down and download the MT-32 to GM utility here: http://www.queststudios.com/roland/utilities.html Edit: You will also want to download the MT-32 reset utility so you can reset the LAPC back to defaults without rebooting …

It's the dos version that came with my sounds card. My sb16 did have some config.sys device drivers but I don't use them as they weren't necessary for DOS games and just ate up memory. Let me know what your AWE installs and I can take a look and see if it's needed imo.

I've never had an SB AWE, but I believe it is similar to my SB16 and I don't load any drivers for dos support. The only thing needed is to set the BLASTER variable in your autoexec.bat and to run the sbconfig utility which configures the board to the settings in the blaster variable. Mine looks like …

For all intents and purposes Win95/98 Dos-mode is true dos. However the version of DOS that it reports is v7.xx, i.e. Win98SE says v7.10. I haven't run into that before but if you have a game that is specifically checking for dos 6.22 it would fail when the version came back as v7.10. The way to get …

The empty socket was for the ASP chip (advanced signal processor I believe). I never did get one for mine since there really wasn't anything it was used for. I don't think any games ever took advantage of it, the only apps that I was aware of that used it were some of the bundled creative text to …

Thanks, I know there was an uption in Win98 to reserver specific IRQs/IO ports/etc but I'm not seeing anything similar in WinXP. I did some searching on microsoft and found the following article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314068/kb/314068 It sounds like WinXP isn't as flexible as Win98 was …

Ah thanks so much, I didn't realize that XP had one included. Got it to work ok. The only issue now that I'm seeing is that for some reason XP hangs during boot if I use my BIOS settings to reserve IRQ's 5 and 9 for ISA, I can reserve one or the other but not both for some reason. If I don't reserve …

Here's my setup, been very happily running Win98se for sometime and am able to run most of my DOS games without any issues: Soyo P4I845pe ISA 1GB ram 2.67GHZ P4 SB16 SCC-1 + MT32 I also use this machine as my day to day computer and I'm starting to see more and more apps and games not supporting …