I can't seem to find anything that sounds like my question. I see plenty of threads about a hdd not appearing in Windows 98; however my problem is that the hdd does appear in Win98 but not in DOS mode before Windows is loaded. This evening I found that the PS/2 keyboard on my 233MMX rig died so I am …

Thanks, guys. Yep, works great! Added Powerstrip to my collection of Win9x software. 😀

I have Win98se working nicely on a 2GHz AthlonXP with 2GB RAM (1.5GB ramdrive using HIMEMX and XMSDSK). It has a Diamond Radeon 9250 PCI 256MB video card using the ATI software version 8.03.98.3-050117a. The monitor is a 19 inch Vizio HDTV capable of 1366x768. In later Windows versions and my main …

This is a fun topic and I've been building/modding PCs since my family's first Packard Bell 486SX. So I've seen and done a lot of things... In my 233MMX I replaced the primary slave with a CF->IDE adapter and installed a couple of OSs on CF cards. DOS/Win3.11 works great and works with the 18GB …

I managed to find a 1GB Compact Flash and transferred my OS/2 image from the SD to the CF. Warp boots happily on this CF card 😀 Thanks, Jo22, for your ideas eventually leading me in the right direction.

Thanks again, Jo22. You give me some new ideas. Today I tested a theory regarding disk geometry. In the BIOS I specified the geometry and set to NORMAL then did a clean install. It won't even begin to boot on NORMAL, only on LBA, then on LBA the same problem occurs. The box my CF-IDE adapter came in …

Thank you, Jo22. Those are interesting ideas. I did not REM the driver in config.sys since, as posted in the other thread, it did not solve his similar problem. (c) is interesting. I could try to boot from the floppy to do chkdsk. My OS/2 is installed as a single HPFS partition. (d) is a lot like …

Hello, everyone. I hope this is the right forum for this question. On my i430TX rig I've had Warp installed and running on a Quantum 1.0GB disk for a while. I did not have the boot manager installed and it was a hassle to switch between the OS2 and DOS disk drives to multiboot. Thus I made raw …

I thing I've fond another severely irritating thing when working on old PC's - Windows 98 reinstalling the driver(s) and asking for a Win 98 CD every @!#%% time you put a different card in the PC(and place the 'old' one back afterwards) or even just by moving it from one slot to another. With the …

Same here, derSammler. Just a few days ago my secondary slave, an 18GB Maxtor, started making those dreaded knocking sounds. Fortunately it was still empty so nothing is lost. I dug an ATAPI Zip250 out of my closet. I remember many years ago when I found it at a thrift shop for $3, already mounted …

I prefer PearPC for OSX. It can run up to 10.4.11. One thing it can not do is Classic mode. Even after installing the 9 system folder, it hangs when trying to start Classic mode.

I agree about molexes that are too tight. I've had plenty that left the side of my finger bruised, and sometimes scratched a knuckle on the IDE pins. How about chassis bare metal frames with edges like a hacksaw blade. I've left blood stains on ribbon cables CD drives that are so long they interfere …

Hello all, I'm new here and this is my first post. I hope someone can help. I've searched these forums and Google numerous times, trying every idea I've found, with no luck. Back during early summer I rebuilt my MS-DOS rig using the following: QDI Titanium IB i430TX with BIOS 1.3s AMD K6-233 with …