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I really don't want to buy another video card - or worse, another motherboard.
#Ancient wars sparta disk foppy install#
Speaking of the onboard VGA, it's either not designed for 98 or not designed for serious use, because it outputs only 640x480 at 16 colors (I assume the latter because when I install the drivers I get the extra option of outputting in 2 colors), so that's a no go. I tried going into the BIOS to disable Onboard VGA, and I think I did it, but apparently the manual for this motherboard is just as unknown as the motherboard itself, so I have no idea how I'm actually supposed to do it (I just changed the default video to PCI). I tried swapping PCI slots, but I get the same error. I tried disabling the motherboard resources, which Windows let me do without any errors, but it still complains about the resource conflicts (.even though they shouldn't be there). The Bootlog, which is attached the post, doesn't tell me much either). (It's important to note that I can never change the third set of memory addresses, as Windows always tells me that I'm unable to do so, without giving me an error explaining why. I tried changing the memory addresses that I could to ones that were avaliable, and it resulted in Windows giving me a protection error at boot, even after I renamed smartdrv.exe via safe mode. OTHER: 1.44MB Floppy Drive and an IDE CD-ROMĪlmost everything on the computer works except for the CD-ROM (I'll get to that eventually, probably just a missing driver), the sound (also missing drivers, I'll get around to it once I get the graphics out of the way), and of course.the graphics card, which has conflicts with the motherboard (It can't access any of it's default memory ranges because the motherboard is using them, presumably.) The graphics card works, but until I solve the resource conflicts, it's stuck in 16 colors at 640x480. MOTHERBOARD: Intel Desktop Board D945GCFG1ĬASE: Cheap $30 ""GAMER"" plastic case I bought off of Ebay (that may as well be the actual name of the case because of how awful it is) I'm really hoping that I can get Windows 98 working even with the half-compatible setup I have right now: I don't have that much money, and on top of that I've spent almost three weeks trying to get this PC working.
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Many of the parts here were either given to me for free or pulled from other computers.
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Before I list the specs of the Windows 98 PC I'm building I want to confirm that this is very much the poor mans Windows 98 PC.