re: Two curious errors I haven't seen before in this OS
Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 4:02 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2208 messages posted)
I did two things with it. Made it a slave to another, a Maxtor, and dug out a Promise
controller to get past an 8 GB Hdd size limit in the old thing's BIOS (Intel i430TX
chipset), the Maxtor was in the very first Pentium PC I owned, when I tore it down
about four years ago to make room for newer stuff.
That oldie had Via's VP3 chipset, and the MB didn't seem usable just a year or two
after it was set aside. It just wouldn't do anything any more. When new, it had
a 2 to 4 GB Hdd in it, and may have needed a Promise in it for more than just running
too many IDE devices.
I have more time than spendable income (retired), and these oldies are relatively
cheap to assemble, and have plenty of usability left in them. The other PC has a
dual boot with W2K, so I can work with file management in that OS. It's somewhat
faster than the currently worked on system, which is running at 166 MHz, and I have
too little patience for Win2000's slowness in that small a PC (also limited in RAM
because of the way it caches it).
.
Kiwi
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On Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 12:45 am, C K wrote:
>Can you get your hands on another brand drive? Fugitsu had firmware incompatibilities
>in their old drives for some boards and chipsets/IDE controllers. Wasn't the drivers
>fault, and I never found an answer for the systems I worked on accept going to a
>WD, Maxtor or Seagate drive.
>
>Of course, it was never officially acknowledged, but a lot of drives went back,
including
>the ones I had purchased to build systems with in the middle to late 90's.
>
>Did you verify that all of the parameters were correct in the BIOS as it pertains
>to the drive? You also may have to zero out the drive and start over, if it "is"
>a drive issue. On the other hand, you could have issues beyond just the hardware
>or a combo of hardware and software.
>
>Isn't old stuff fun to work with!?? LOL
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