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First post, by Rikintosh

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I have a VT6202, but it refuses to work with win98. With winxp it works perfectly, but with win98, if there is anything connected to it, even a simple mouse, the system will freeze at the boot screen, if nothing is connected, the system will work, and it will be shown in the device manager . But when connecting anything, it doesn't work, (for example, an optical mouse doesn't turn on its red light), I've tried other drivers without success.

My motherboard is an Asus P2 99, but the bios has been updated and now it is a transgender that identifies itself as P2Z, 🤣
Could this have to do with my problem?

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Reply 1 of 8, by Gmlb256

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Have you tried different drivers for the VT6202 USB 2.0 card?

ASUS P2-99 and P2Z are exactly the same motherboard except that the latter has a voltage monitoring.

VIA C3 Nehemiah 1.2A @ 1.46 GHz | ASUS P2-99 | 256 MB PC133 SDRAM | GeForce3 Ti 200 64 MB | Voodoo2 12 MB | SBLive! | AWE64 | SBPro2 | GUS

Reply 2 of 8, by retardware

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Rikintosh wrote on 2021-09-12, 15:00:

...transgender...
Could this have to do with my problem?

Maybe to connect them you need an adapter, "Gender changer", "extension", "driver" or whatever.
Maybe this one can be used?

Reply 3 of 8, by swaaye

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I would begin by removing all cards except the video and USB card. Try the USB card in each PCI slot. VIA USB 2.0 cards can be troublesome. 98SE is also fairly touchy about PCI cards.

It's not uncommon for 2K/XP to be stable with a hardware configuration that 98 doesn't like.

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Reply 4 of 8, by Rikintosh

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I downloaded the bios from the asus website, on the page on P2 99. I suppose the P2z is the one with monitoring, as my card doesn't monitor, it has errors, and it shows the voltages wrongly.

I downloaded 5 drivers, cnet and driver guide, the drivers seem to install and work fine, but the card itself refuses to work.

By the way, for my board to control temperatures and voltages, I just solder the necessary components?

I noticed that if I disable an option in the bios about reserve IRQ for usb, the computer would start even with something plugged into the card, but it still doesn't work, and the system is unstable after about 2 or 3 minutes

In the past I had exactly the same problem, on a socket 370 Chinese motherboard that was unstable, it worked fine with Win XP but with win98 the exact same thing happened. At the time I lost patience, and bought an asus cuvx and a new usb card (I don't remember the model, but I remember it also worked on a PowerMac G4 with additional drivers)

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Reply 5 of 8, by swaaye

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On some motherboards with integrated USB 2.0 I configure them for USB 1.1 because of stability problems with 98. Nforce 2 and VIA boards come to mind.

There's a thread here about USB 2.0 cards and 98.
Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

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Reply 6 of 8, by zapbuzz

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firstly you should only use bios that is for your motherboard.
you can revert back. and clear the cmos.
If it wasn't released with certain features you should seek 3rd party alternatives as that is modding and something I haen't seen successful in your motherboards history.
here is a link for an application for conrol of many motherboards temperatures and voltages its far better than trying to make the motherboard something it isn't and if the voltages and speeds aren't supported its probably best to seek a motherboard that does or be happy with temperature control by fan tuning https://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

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Reply 7 of 8, by Rikintosh

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swaaye wrote on 2021-09-12, 15:38:

On some motherboards with integrated USB 2.0 I configure them for USB 1.1 because of stability problems with 98. Nforce 2 and VIA boards come to mind.

There's a thread here about USB 2.0 cards and 98. NEC is the preference I think.
Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

I read about it here on the forum. I think I'm going to get an NEC card to try my luck

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