Super Fdisk can speed things up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ivV5tyfRs
A lot of times when you first start out on a project you think, This is never going to be finished. But then it is, and you think, Wow, it wasn't even worth it. - Jack Handey
okay. it's booting now some bios setting was causing it to hang at updating escd and verifying dmi pool data. I reset to defaults and disabled system bios cachable (as per jan's reccomendation for k6 + cpus) and set the proper boot order
also tried it with a different cd drive I'm pretty sure the other one was bad
next problem, blue screen in windows 7 setup. says the bios in this system is not fully acpi compliant
is there any chance in hell of getting around that with a bios patch or windows patch?
"Here’s a quick guide on installing the Standard PC Hardware abstraction layer:
Reboot your machine in order to bring back the Windows Setup screen.
once you see the ‘Press F6 if you need to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver‘ bottom prompt, press F7 (Not F6) in order to bypass the installation of ACPI and install the Standard PC HAL."
https://appuals.com/0x000000a5-windows-7/
I tried installing Windows 7 on my Asus P55T2P4 with a K6-3+ and 512 megs of EDO - it spent most of a day installing it when I finally gave up and pulled the plug and installed XP instead. I've given up on installing anything newer than Windows 98 on such old hardware now.
A lot of times when you first start out on a project you think, This is never going to be finished. But then it is, and you think, Wow, it wasn't even worth it. - Jack Handey
Repo Man11 wrote on 2021-01-24, 19:56:"Here’s a quick guide on installing the Standard PC Hardware abstraction layer: […]
"Here’s a quick guide on installing the Standard PC Hardware abstraction layer:
Reboot your machine in order to bring back the Windows Setup screen.
once you see the ‘Press F6 if you need to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver‘ bottom prompt, press F7 (Not F6) in order to bypass the installation of ACPI and install the Standard PC HAL."
https://appuals.com/0x000000a5-windows-7/I tried installing Windows 7 on my Asus P55T2P4 with a K6-3+ and 512 megs of EDO - it spent most of a day installing it when I finally gave up and pulled the plug and installed XP instead. I've given up on installing anything newer than Windows 98 on such old hardware now.
sweet, I'll give that a shot! thank you so much!
have you tried mini xp? I just booted to that on a live cd and it seemed pretty fast
okay, It's crashing before that screen and I don't seem to have that option in bios settings for PSS & SCC Configuration what do you think the chances are of a 1999 bios working? I'm on the 98 bios now and will soon update to jans's 2005 modded 1999 bios i don't think the ram is issue as suggested in the article because I have already loaded windows xp mini on a live cd to desktop on a ram drive
You might as well try updating the BIOS, it can't hurt.
A lot of times when you first start out on a project you think, This is never going to be finished. But then it is, and you think, Wow, it wasn't even worth it. - Jack Handey
