First post, by wutang61
Looking for input on what I’m doing wrong here.
I’ll have to admit, upfront, my D875PBZ is very temperamental. Booting into DOS from 98 or attempting to install a DOS game, wipes the system out. Or really any super hard crash basically soft bricks the system.
As soon as it goes into “DOS Mode” I lose video signal. Absolutely will not reset without a 24 hour power and CMOS battery pull.
Running a FX5900U with DVI-HDMI. Forceware 77.xx.
I have a few games I would like to get working in DOS. Mainly OG mechwarrior and mechwarrior 2. As I’m still digging around how to mod “windows aka pentium edition” and titanium to run at least 1024x768. Tips for that or links would also be helpful.
Is this in issue with DVI itself? Is somehow the card forcing VGA output and that’s why I have no signal? Very odd behavior.
First go around with DOS Mech2 I get a DOS prompt within 98 with the “install graphics” press any key into install, lost video out.
I will add during this time, the keyboard is Completely dead without power. (It has an LCD screen so I know when it has signal) No post images. If you physically “break” the system by pulling ram or The video card it will “beep” accordingly. But absolutely no luck clearing anything until the last drop of energy is discharged from the board. Moving jumpers to “configure” back to normal have no effect.
The next day after it sorted itself out, I booted into DOS from the shutdown menu and got the prompt but realized USB support is non existent (my mistake) and restarted the system. Back to no video out until the “24 hour” mark and things reset. Which is where I am now.
Seems like this is quite the fiasco just to start the system in DOS. Anyone have a workaround or input to why it’s nuking the system?