What is the RAM amount?

Babasha wrote on 2026-01-12, 11:52:

What is the RAM amount?

2x64Mb

Solved by resetting the BIOS and leaving everything at default ( except enabling PnP OS option, disabling the integrated sound card and the ethernet adapter ). Then formatted again Win98SE, and everything went fine.

I usually disable the Parallel / Serial / ACPI / Power functions / Wake On Lan... or other useless things when possible, to minimize IRQ conflicts or problems, but this time things went the other way xD.

Really don't have the patience to find what it was causing the problem.

One thing i learned, Intel 810 chipsets ( not the 815 ) sometimes are picky, that was not the last time i had problems with them, in some ways.

I remember trash picking some OEM 810 and 815 boards in the early noughts, didn't spend a lot of time on them, there were tons discarded around then. What I seemed to run into a lot with those was fried USB ports or the USB controllers onboard being messed up, which caused problems like this when driver install was attempted. Some of them also would only run onboard graphics, attempts at using AGP if equipped or PCI if not tended to result in frustration, very picky. Anyway, a way around the first could be to uninstall all USB in CMOS setup, and use a 3rd party USB, kinda sucky if you haven't got PS/2 kb/mouse. Then for the second, it was always better to treat it like a VIA board and install chipset drivers before other graphics installed when they had onboard.

Power regulation on them tended to be a bit rudimentary, probably only 2 phase with 2 huge caps near CPU socket typical, and it being bad caps times, those were frequently bad, even if not visibly bulged.

Apart from a handful of enthusiast boards, these mostly got into low end systems and were built down to a price and often show it. By the time they actually released P4 was coming out and there was barely any traction to break the BX dominance in PIII enthusiast circles. So they kinda got dumped cheap for $499 celeron specials.