First post, by Ultrafop
Hey everyone! First post!
I have an issue and I am hoping one of the esteemed members of this community may be able to point me in the right direction to move forward.
I am currently working on 2 win98SE builds with intel 440BX chipsets (Build 1 - Asus P2B; Build 2 = QDI BrillianX-I - BIOS ver. 1.0SL). Each build has a voodoo 3 video card and a Pentium 2 of varying speed (build 1 = 450mhz/ build 2 = 300mhz). I cloned my drive from my primary build so that moving over to build 2 would be easy, as the 440bx drivers, as well as voodoo drivers, would be present.
Here comes the issue:
On build one, the system boots without a hitch and DOS titles work perfectly fine in windows 98's shell. On build two... Well... the Windows 98 logo disappears after my autoexe.bat runs. The screen is totally black for a long time and if I don't tweak settings in my startup just right the system just turns itself off at that stage of booting. When I do boot into Windows it doesn't run DOS titles, only win9x titles. When attempting to run a DOS program I get a message in the shell saying something along the lines of "This window can't run because of the way it uses the display" and asks me to hit alt and enter to go to full screen which then freezes the explorer (as does toggling full screen start). This same issue also occurs with a voodoo banshee.
Now here's the weirdest part (and hopefully a clue for someone more knowledgeable than I am):
If I set the video to it's lowest settings (which I believe cuts out the voodoo drivers) in safe mode, boot, and then reactivate the voodoo drivers in a soft boot (i.e. the BIOS does not POST post again, it just reboots windows without actually restarting), the system runs perfectly. Everything works correctly.... Until restarting. Then we're back to square one.
Because this unit is using a clone image of my other unit. Theoretically the voodoo 3 should have 0 issues because the drivers are the same as my first unit... so I'm kind of perplexed. I have the feeling this is being caused by the motherboard, since it's the only really different component, but I can't quite make out how that would be if I can soft boot into windows and get everything working correctly.
I know that was a lot. Thank you to anyone who can offer any information to assist!
