XP running on a 486 cpu

[Dietmar]

@ProgramHacker

This will not work

Dietmar

[ProgramHacker]

2 minutes ago, ProgramHacker said:

@Dietmar why don't you take the windows 2000 files and overlap it with windows xp install. That way it might help to solve some problems

 

I think, to fix this logagent.exe space problem may requires us to code another one in C++

However, why is logagent.exe so strict when it just write logs?

[ProgramHacker]

1 minute ago, ProgramHacker said:

I think, to fix this logagent.exe space problem may requires us to code another one in C++

However, why is logagent.exe so strict when it just write logs?

BTW, how much space does logagent.exe has left. It might be possible.

[ProgramHacker]

Guys, I just found out the secret of logagent.exe and its use

 

I just read through the assembly codes of "logagent.exe" and...

logagent.exe, also known for Windows Media Player Log Agent. The application that logs errors with Windows Media Player.

Maybe, just maybe, windows media player is also leading the trails to this logagent.exe, maybe fixing Windows Media Player would fix logagent.exe problem

Edited May 4, 2024 by ProgramHacker
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[roytam1]

10 minutes ago, Dietmar said:

@roytam1

I want to do this, but for those a lot of cmpxchg8b there, it is just not enough free place in it at the end of their .text section.

And I have small success with to enlarge the .text section.

Can you enlarge the .text section of my german files? And write me, where those free place is now in those files.

Then I will do the modd

Dietmar

I don't have a way to enlarge .text section. you can do the same as NTDLL.DLL, but you have to remove .rsrc section before adding new section.

in PE Explorer, open file and goto Data Directories, and set Resource Table to Zero:

to this:

then goto section page to uncheck .rsrc section:

click Yes to both message boxes, and save.

 

then you can add new section.

 

once you finished rewriting cx8 with codes in your new section, we can add back .rsrc with resource hacker:

open modded file, Add from resource file:

select original(unmodified) file, check all and overwrite

and click File -> Save to save it.+

[roytam1]

10 hours ago, Dietmar said:

I can boot from it

if its boot ROM messages are not showing in/after POST screen, mostly likely its boot ROM is not executed and therefore unbootable.

[Dietmar]

@roytam1

The PCI to IDE/Sata adapter cards have own Rom.

But it seems, that there is a conflict between the Bios of the Shuttle Hot 433 board and the Rom of those cards.

Is here somebody on the forum, who gets an PCI to IDE/Sata card work on a 486 board

and can boot via the Rom of this card for example to win2000, win98SE, win95, NT4

Dietmar

[Damnation]

@Dietmar

These VIA chipset PCI cards have drivers going back to win3.1.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/195952338235

[Dietmar]

@Damnation

Thanks for help,

but I think, those cards to not have a boot Rom

Dietmar

[Damnation]

@Dietmar

I'm not sure how to tell if it has a boot ROM or not.

[Dietmar]

@Damnation

I have this card. No Rom, no boot message, just nothing on the Shuttle Hot 433 board for 486 cpu

Dietmar

PS: May be this happens, because no Bios Sata driver is integrated in the Bios from that Shuttle board.

 

[Damnation]

@Dietmar

Does IDE work at least?

[Dietmar]

@Damnation

I tested this card only for to boot XP SP3 on this 486 board Shuttle Hot 433,

and there also no IDE

Dietmar

[Damnation]

@Dietmar

The one I linked does, maybe try that?

[Dietmar]

@Damnation

May be, that IDE works, but I need for XP the boot Rom.

Just now I order from ebay a card Dawicontrol DC-150,

which has an own Bios Rom. https://www.ebay.de/itm/404890659301

On next weekend I make also a try with flashing another Bios to the Shuttle Hot 433 board,

because my intuition tells me, that it is not normal that ALL PCI cards fail

Dietmar

EDIT: I found the driver together with the Bios for this card. nr for the NON-Raid version.

Because in description they wrote, that driver and Bios from this card have to match.

With my EEprom writer TL866 II plus it is easy for this Bios chip.

dc150_nr.zip

https://ufile.io/v3omq3sk

Edited May 5, 2024 by Dietmar