First post, by athlon_p0wer
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I've been trying to get Windows running on my K6-2 machine for ages now, and I've finally done it. Now I'm trying to get DOS games onto it, even though I have my 486 which is set up for DOS and DOS games. I love that machine to death, but even DOOM and similar games are not very smooth on it, let alone any games like Duke3D or Dark Forces.
The problem is that I can't run a DOS game in Windows, because the moment the game exits the system hard locks. This is far from the only problems this machine is giving me, but like with the 486 where I need to run certain applications a certain way, I imagine this is the same way. I just need to run my DOS programs in actual DOS mode, and so I'd like to have a startup menu set up so that I can choose to just start the machine in MS-DOS mode or boot Windows. I've done this once before on the 486, and it worked great- but I can no longer remember how to do it correctly. I used this post as a guide How to create a boot (start up) menu under Windows 9x/ME as well as this page http://www.math.utah.edu/~gustafso/menu95.txt, but it never quite worked. It would just continue to boot into Windows 95 even when I selected DOS mode on the menu. I made sure to set BOOTGUI to 0, and it still was giving me issues.
I'll likely make another post detailing the hardware issues this machine is throwing at me, but I think it started when I overclocked the motherboard from 66MHz up to 75MHz. Ever since then this machine has not been quite right.
System Specs:
PCChips M570 Motherboard (SiS 5591)
AMD K6-2+ 550MHz @ 400MHz, 66MHz FSB
64MB PC-100 @ PC-66 with lowest timings
Matrox Millenium 2MB PCI
Addonics Yamaha YMF-718 ISA
HP DVD200i
Seagate 4GB HDD
1.44MB FDD
