Reply 20 of 26, by waterbeesje
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Drivers. Plug&pray. Went up and down the hill a few times more than is like, but I'm getting somewhere!
Windows and the mouse didn't seem to like eachother. Just by trial and error I discovered Windows would not respond to the mouse when ctmouse was loaded. Reboot without loading ctmouse and Windows did whatever I wanted!..
Next up, the graphics card.
The Diamond Stealth 64 Vram drivers would crash Windows on startup, locking the entire system. The universal driver library from Vogonsdrivers contains some s3 drivers, resulting in the same lockup. Trying to find any other driver did not result in anything useful... Seems these Vision 968 cards are only did for Windows 95 and 98?
Any way I swapped the card with the original 864. Also no drivers that worked. I did find some 864 drivers library on the net and I could load Windows with them. Yay!
But the picture looked kinda distorted... Not good, could it be bad drivers or bad video Ram? Swapped back to the 968 and Windows did boot! But with the same glitchy distorted picture. I know the 968 is a good one since I tested it on Win98 before without these glitches (on my IBM Aptiva 2137). So the drivers must be broken....
Tired of driver trouble I got to my Matrox MGA2064, downloaded the first MGA driver from Vogonsdrivers and BAM! Worked like a charm! No distortion, full 24 of 32 bit colour on windows 3.11!
Next up: sound. The Crystal CS4237b chip is quite some capable card. It emulates everything from opl3 to Roland modes and I already have configured it for DOS, playing some music from the rest utility.
In fact, the drivers contain a DOS and Windows 3.1 setup program.
Running setup in Windows: not a single hassle. Shut down Windows, editing autoexec.bat and config.sys to get the drivers onto the right boot menu items and reboot the system.
Windows gets me a black screen and after a few seconds returned to the command prompt.
Testing from DOS: working fine.
Check startup parameters all fine.
Reboot to minimal drivers: himem+sound.
Testing from DOS: working fine.
Windows refused to start.
Disable sound driver from DOS, reboot, Windows started with errors (sound related).
Remove Windows sound drivers, set drivers for DOS, reboot, start Windows, reinstall drivers, reboot, Windows refuses.
(No filthy language allowed at our home but I came close).
In the end I found that the config for the soundcard is plug and play but can be overridden by editing a little ini file and give the config.sys sound driver the /O switch (override).
Fiddling with some addresses and stuff kinda made this a soft-non-plug&pray card 😁
Reboot, test in DOS went ok, restart Windows, reinstall drivers set autoexec and config, and rebooted.
Windows boots right onto the desktop.
Me be happy again 😁
Stuck at 10MHz...