stano wrote:I would download the bx or equivalent for your board chipset drivers, directx then install video drivers but even if you havent installed in that order it should not crash.
THe 9x microsoft operating systems would get their knickers in a knot sometimes for the smallest issues.
Weird.
Installed the last chipset driver pack from Intel that supported the 440GX, installed the last version of DirectX for Windows 98 and then tried the Forceware install. Didn't seem to solve the issue. I'm pretty sure there's a driver of some kind I might be missing or that needs to be updated, I'm just not exactly sure what it is and where to find it 🤣.
Edit: Managed to get Forceware 61.76 to install. Hit dxdiag and it's saying I have no DirectDraw, Direct3d or AGP Texture acceleration. If I try to change screen res from the 800x600 it has defaulted to, I get a black screen crash and have to restart.
I installed the unofficial 98SE SP3, which seems to have allowed me to install the drivers and boot into windows without issue, but then I got a black screen crash when I tried to see if dxdiag was displaying the proper directx info.
Update:
Disabled PNP OS in bios. Going to do a fresh reinstall of 98SE to see if that solves any of the issues I've been having. Not sure if that will actually help or not, but I seem to remember hearing that Windows 98 didn't really seem to handle managing IRQs well and that it was better to let the bios handle that.
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