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>Forgetting to apply this patch before exceeding the 137GB of your hard disk would be a catastrophe. Not so catastrophe. I booted my win98 before applying this patch (1st I needed to download it from somewhere and it didn't caused any damage to data on other two big FAT32 partitions. One partition was even accessible and fully readable because I didn't filled it up to 128G limit. Other partition was reported as unknown. Of course I didn't try to write anything there before patching.

>Sorry I overlookd this. But I want to try some experiment with it Hm, so I tried to modify INF file from IAA (supports up to ICH4) to add ICH7 support, then it was installed successfully, copied intelata driver to system directory but after reboot it didn't worked. In device manager I can see 82801DG controller with primary and secondary channel with /!\ warning. It seems that limitation is in intelata.mpd driver itself so I give up. Anyway modified esdi_506.pdr seems to work fine.

Did it install using 82.69 without you having to change the inf file? Any issues with this driver and the 7600? I used this version of 82.69 drivers from ZakMcKracken84: http://windows98.ic.cz/vga/fw9x8269.rar and don't need to modify inf file.

Hehe, I sometimes had put my fingers into fire (or s***?) when bought new hardware with unknown compatability So I learned to be patient and take a wisdoms from others failures. I'd like to bought GF8600 but I find anybody who has tested 8xxx card. I only knew about 7300 so I hoped 7600 would be very similar and luckily it works. So go ahead, thrash your money for 8800 and tell us

No, intel no longer support IAA 9x version. So latest usable chipset with IAA is i860 (i think ICH4 or 5).

It's not necessary, it's working now! It was caused by my confusion of driver versions. My original esdi_506.pdr was 4.10.2225 and that I used was patched 4.10.2226 and this caused the BSOD. Now I replaced it by correct patched version and everything seems to works OK. I didn't filled FAT32 partitions yet but if LBA48 was not active I cannot see the second partition and now I can. Here's my volumes BTW I didn't meant Kouwell adapter as a PCI card but as a small PCB which is attached to PATA drive and have SATA connector on other side (bought in CzechComputer per 250,-Kc). I used it for HDD mobile rack and to have ability to easy handle PATA drives. >IAA doesnt work od 856PE chipset, look Sorry I overlookd this. But I want to try some experiment with it BTW what about DOS Scandisk from WinME? Is it safe to run it in >128G partitions? Somebody say yes others no... I tried it and test succeed but there was not any bugs to fix so cannot say if it can corrupt something. And I don't fill partition over 128G. Should I rather rename/remove scandisk to prevent running it during boot? I have Norton utilities to do the job anyway...

I don't know exact driver version because I was installing new mobo during weekend and no network working yet and had some ?? ver. So I downloaded latest version from here and try it when back at home. I also readed from other users that enhanced mode doesn't work. BTW I use 2nd PATA HDD with Kouwell IDE/SATA adapter and is seems to be perfectly transparent to the system. You say you have 865 chipset, then you wouldn't need this patch because of intel application accelerator should provide own LBA48 bit enabled driver for you if you installed it. Maybe it would be possible to patch intel's driver to force it work on ICH7 too.

Hi, I just bought big SATA HDD WD 500GB. I set "IDE/combined" mode in SETUP (chipset: i945G+ICH7R) to operate 2 SATA ports like standard IDE channel (PATA have attached CDW+DVDW, SATA - HDD). I made here 1 FAT16 and 2 FAT32 (192GB) partitions. It's well accessible from DOS 7.1 but I can access only 1st FAT32 from Win98se. So I installed LBA48 patch (~100kB self-installation exe which should replace ESDI_506.PDR) The problem is a BSOD I got on next boot (translated from CZ): "Bad call of dynamic connection of VxD ESDI_506.PDR(03) + 000017EB to device 0026 service A. And ask if I want to continue". When I continue it boot OK and even LBA48 works - I can access all partitions. But I got this nasty BSOD on every startup. Is there some alternative and fully working LBA48 patch? Another question to SATA - why Win98SE cannot work with IDE/enhanced mode (1 PATA channel + 4 SATA ports?). In DOS 7.1 it works but Win98SE hangs during boot but works in safe mode. It's not too important now I can live with combined mode.

Plase could you link me to this thread? I searched for "LBA48" in thread titles and nothing else found... Aha, you probably meant "Enable48BitLBA | Break the 137Gb barrier!" OK EDIT: PROBLEM SOLVED (I USED WRONG VERSION), MODS PLEASE DELETE THIS THREAD

But on what hardware? I also didn't have problems to run SB or other ISA soundcards under DOS/9x on various PII/PIII systems with intel BX440 PCI/ISA mobos. But this is a P4 board with new chipset and some kind of PCI/ISA bridge chip and I'm not sure if it is compatible.

Hi, I just bought big SATA HDD WD 500GB. I set "IDE/combined" mode in SETUP (chipset: i945G+ICH7R) to operate 2 SATA ports like standard IDE channel (PATA have attached CDW+DVDW, SATA - HDD). I made here 1 FAT16 and 2 FAT32 (192GB) partitions. It's well accessible from DOS 7.1 but I can access only 1st FAT32 from Win98se. So I installed LBA48 patch (~100kB self-installation exe which should replace ESDI_506.PDR) The problem is a BSOD I got on next boot (translated from CZ): "Bad call of dynamic connection of VxD ESDI_506.PDR(03) + 000017EB to device 0026 service A. And ask if I want to continue". When I continue it boot OK and even LBA48 works - I can access all partitions. But I got this nasty BSOD on every startup. Is there some alternative and fully working LBA48 patch? Another question to SATA - why Win98SE cannot work with IDE/enhanced mode (1 PATA channel + 4 SATA ports?). In DOS 7.1 it works but Win98SE hangs during boot but works in safe mode. It's not too important now I can live with combined mode.

X-Fi has newer DSP than EMU10K2, hasn't?

Hi Mathias, I finally got this mobo from Commell yesterday. They sent it to me directly by EMS for quite good price in USD (220+50). I tried it very quickly but seems to have problem with soundcard in ISA slot. Did you managed to run any soundcard and games in DOS with sound? I have ESS1868 and SB AWE64 ISA to try. This soundard worked very well in DOS on my previous PIII mobos. SB drivers was initialized properly, assigning 220/5/1/5 resources as usual but any DOS program cannot play sound. It didn't find the soundcard or when it find it hanged when would started to play. Does I miss some important option in SETUP or is the ISA crippled in hardware/BIOS to not be true ISA but some cheap PCI emulation? Does it support ISA PnP devices? Soundcard was not listed during boot-up like other PCI devices. And under win98, can you play DOS games with sound?

Sorry, but I think the latest Creative's souncard supported in win9x was Audigy2. Running 2k/XP drivers in 98 would be near impossible.

My current mobo running Win98SE (and DOS, XP, Debian, ...) Asus P5LD2 -support for Core2 CPU (newer revisions), I use E6400@2,4GHz -PCI-E/PCI -intel 945 + ICH7R -additional onboard IDE ITE8211 = up to 6 PATA devices! (fully utilized by 3 optical drives, 2 HDDs, 1 ZIP 100MB) -4 DIMM slots (I use 2x512MB DDRII 667MHz in dualchannel) I managed to install Win98SE without serious problems. I installed official drivers for ITE8211 IDE, Marvell Yukon LAN, modified drivers for nVidia 7600GS PCIE, unofficial USB2.0 drivers included in nUSB 3.0 & 3.2, modified intel INF files. In device manager left only one unknown device called "motherboard resources" but it's OK. I didn't tested SATA yet (currently have all on PATA) and I don't use onboard sound because of better SB Live! Remaining issues: -SB emulation driver doesn't work under DOS and Win98 (only possibility for dos games is some kind of emulation - DOSBOX, VDMSound (XP), DOSEMU (Linux)) -Windows 98 hangs during shutdows process (bad combination with nvidia) and I have to use restart and shutdown manually -This crap boasts with overclocking features but it have very bad behavior when FSB exceed about 320MHz, then on all restarts the system is going power off and on within 2 seconds which I belive doesn't prolong life of HDDs. But I fixed this issue by HW-modding - I inserted an asymmetric delay circuit in PSON ATX supply signal to avoid shutdowns when signal goes high shorter than 2 sec.

And what VGA chip you had? FW 77.78 supports up to 6800 + 7800 but not 7300/7600. Before I had 6600GT this drivers works. BTW the missing call in nv4_mini.sys from 2k/xp driver was ZwPowerInformation (NTOSKRNL.EXE). It couldn't be really needed, maybe it could be patched to not use this func and then may work...

BTW Are there some unofficial drivers for modern nVidia cards for NT4.0 SP6 like for Win9x? With latest official forceware 77.78 my GF7600 boots in VGA mode only. I tried to force install winxp drivers 94.xx but it failed to boot due to missing function kernel call, so drivers really are not compatible. The last I tried was installing universal VESA VBE 3.0 driver which works in higher resolution and true colors but it's very slow and due to crippled nvidia VBE 3.0 implementation it cannot setup higher refresh rate than 60Hz which is a big issue on CRT...

BTW Are there some unofficial drivers for modern nVidia cards for NT4.0 SP6 like for Win9x? With latest official forceware 77.78 my GF7600 boots in VGA mode only. I tried to force install winxp drivers 94.xx but it failed to boot due to missing function kernel call, so drivers really are not compatible. The last I tried wa installing universal VESA VBE 3.0 driver which works in higher resolution and true colors but it's very slow and due to crippled vnidia VBE 3.0 implementation it cannot setup higher refresh rate than 60Hz which is a big issue on CRT...

>From there, you can issue GRUB's "halt" command. This doesn't shut down per se, but it does halt the machine and then the front panel power button >turns it off gracefully. Aha, but you need to press power button still manually. So why to wait for booting grub? Just press power after computer restarts. I need fully automatical shutdown when I'm sleeping or I'm away. >If I wanted to go one step further, I could have GRUB boot the Linux distro to its login manager. There is a real Shutdown command there that truly turns >off the machine, but I don't have the patience to wait another 30s or so for Linux to boot just so I can shut down. GRUB's halt does just fine! You don't need to boot linux, you can shutdown by small tools from dos. DOS itself boot up in one second But the reason why I'm still not satisfied is that when it reboots it beeps during POST and optical drives make some noise. I woul like to reach silent shutdown - need to be done just after reboot.

I still use old good & small 2.95 - the latest of 2.xx line I could find.

BTW Are there some unofficial drivers for modern nVidia cards for NT4.0 SP6 like for Win9x? With latest official forceware 77.78 my GF7600 boots in VGA mode only. I tried to force install winxp drivers 94.xx but it failed to boot due to missing function kernel call, so drivers really are not compatible. The last I tried was installing universal VESA VBE 3.0 driver which works in higher resolution and true colors but it's very slow and due to crippled nvidia VBE 3.0 implementation it cannot setup higher refresh rate than 60Hz which is a big issue on CRT...

Yes, I had similar idea doing it via condition in autoexec.bat (if you have me then you don't have autoexec). How you are doing the shutdown via GRUB? Does it have this option inside or you run DOS and shutdown program? But the best thing would be do shutdown _just_ befre windows exec instruction causing reset... I try to do it but i don't have detail win arch knowledges about shutdown/reboot process.

Thx, I already browsed Commell's site and found Spectra distributor. Do they sell to other countries? Hm, it may significantly increase price by postage and duty . Maybe I should make a trip to DE/AU I upgraded before 11 months and there simply was not any C2D+ISA capable board. Now I can see there's even some newer with 965 but this sucks because missing native IDE. No, I can clearly see "P4LA - Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Desktop industrial ATX Motherboard"

It's unofficial INF set by Peter made of latest 915 for 9x and newer for XP. Currently I don't use any SATA drives so I can't check if it works in native mode. I use PATA drives attached to additional ITE8211 ATA133 onboard controller. But you can try it. See our unofficial 98se site: http://windows98.ic.cz it's intelinf.zip file

For me the most important thing on 9x is good compatability with older, especially DOS SW which needs some level of HW access - there NT gives no chance. Compared to pure DOS it gives me nice light GUI with multitasking ability allows to run DOS sessions, 16 and 32bit win apps with support of most newer HW. On my current PC 98se runs pretty fast and small sized (without any garbage I wouldn't never use). When I'm doing something with system I usually backup entire windows directory in few tens of secons (under other OS) so I can return back quickly. Try this on 8GB Vista, hehe. But big issue is fading (nearly dead) HW support which will make impossible to run this OS on most current/future HW R.I.P.