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OK dencorso nice place to work here ! [iDE (ex-SATA) :] So, I've gone a little further with no result for the moment ... But, I understood why there is 5 PCI dual-channel IDE controller and 10 (2x 5) fifos primary and secondary - all yellow marked. Yellow explanation marks are due to ESDI_506.PDR renamed as ESDIx506.PDR ... simple and quite normal finally. Details : Two PCI dual-channel are for SATA (for a maximum of 6 disks). [ Now both 2 removed in W98. ] One PCI dual-channel is for true (or seem true) IDE (for a maximum of 2 disks). [ Only one left unchanged in W98. ] One PCI dual-channel is for GSATA (for a maximum of 3 disks). [ Now disable in BIOS. ] One PCI dual-channel is for eSATA (for a maximum of 2 disks). [ Now disable in BIOS. ] In the BIOS, I disable GSATA and eSATA ... and in Win98 I remove SATA ones. Even with only 1 PCI dual-channel for IDE with ESDI_506.PDR not renamed (configured by default as IRQ 10 and not 14 or 15): it hangs ! It's like IT iTE8213 doesn't act exactly as an old IDE controller or perhaps PCI (in fact it is onboard not a PCI card) do something wrong in that case ... Clue: I've found a iTE8212 (not exactly a iTE8213) driver for Windows 98 here : http://sgcdn.startech.com/005329/media/sets/ITE-IT8212F_Drivers/ITE_IT8212F.zip http://fr.startech.com/en/Cards-Adapters/HDD-Controllers/IDE/2-Port-PCI-ATA-133-IDE-Adapter-Card~PCIIDE2 Using that driver for hard drive not specifically done for my hardware is a bit risky ... But why not give it a try ! Note: Like that, there is no SATA disks and/or SATA controllers. SATA controller seems to be revert as simple IDE controller in BIOS. Alex.

Hello, I'm back again ... just for a short time I think. So for the moment everything goes right ... Win98 boots and works well on my most recent PC with VGA in 1600x1200 32bits. I can run applications I want. Everything works. [LAN :] @MrMateczko : I've search for a Win98FE driver for my Realtek ... and yes the Windows 98 one is for Win98SE only. Even with KernelEx (sorry for that :-D). So, I will be stuck with the DOS NDIS2 driver instead which is not a good news... Of course, I can also use a simple Ne*2000 PCI card with Win98 drivers I already have for this cheap card ... [uSB :] Don't know if I could get something working (not only USB Mass Storage driver but whole USB drivers) as without the CD-Burner Drive I can't access my Win98 disc with much facilities. So, here's a bigger problem : [sATA :] I notice file write access to my hard drive is conflicting with Windows 8 which run something like a scandisk or chkdsk when rebooting. Sometimes, I can't access files I've modified from Win98 (C:) in Win8 (C: seen as D:). I got some errors messages... It's not really instable as everything revert ok after scandisk but it's embarrassing a little ... @rloew : So, just to go a bit further: Do you think your $$ SATA Patch $$ could help ? As I'm still using Win98 with ESDI_506.PDR renamed. No CD-Burner seen. And as I've already said Win98 find : 5 dual channel PCI controllers and 10 fifo (2x 5) primary and secondary are invalid (yellow explanation mark in system's peripherals). My system has: SATA 3Gb and SATA 6Gb for a total of 13 disks maximum but only 5 dual channel and 10 fifos ??? Adresses and IRQs of all that doesn't seems to correspond to the two traditional IDE controllers IRQ 14/15 we used to have in 98 ... Note: Under Windows 8 I get the same configuration (5x PCI, 10x Fifo) but without the yellow explanation mark - So no errors, it works and my IDE HDD/CDD are well recognized (of course!). SATA disks also ! [sound :] Not a priority for me. But a simple Sound Blaster PCI card with it's own drivers wish to works fine... I'm sure. My principal goal now is to get CD-Drive working. Alex.

@MrMateczko : I've just tried VBEMP as ATI/Radeon do not deliver Win98 drivers' anymore for my relatively new videocard (seems natural in fact ). By "it breaks DOS window" do you mean it's why I got a black screen when opening a new DOS-box like COMMAND.COM or 4DOS ...? I just type Alt+Enter twice and everything returns okay ... Not unstable really but don't work correctly ... But I got 1600x1200 4/3 (out of 1920x1200 16/10e I could normally have) and it's fine like that ! Also, works : FDD (yes old Floppy Disk Drive 3"1/2) works fine ! COM1 (inboard 16550 serial port for mice) works fine also ! LPT1 (inboard LPT for parallel printer) works fine and printer well recognized by Win98 as before - whou ! Of course, I have no LAN, no USB, no sound and worst no CD-Drive burner (IDE/SATA) for the moment ... but the necessary is there: VGA and GPU in 1400x1050 is enough for what I needed... Thanks again to everybody for your help and your messages ! Also, perhaps you have heard this news recently: someone do run Windows 98 on a iPhone 6 ... if this not off-topic of course ... Alex (Paris).

@dencorso: It's explain in my first post (http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/118097-day-to-day-running-win-9xme-with-more-than-1-gib-ram/page-6#entry1088600) Gigabyte P55A-UD4 with Pentium G6950 @ 2,8GHz (tiny proc but paired for Windows 98 ) @Rloew: OK. I think, I will do a pause as for the moment I'm pretty happy with all that. I can run the software I would from IDE startup and so not from VMware Player. I could already do that in safe-mode which was enough for me but it's now better out of safe-mode. @dencorso again: I can't say it's unstable as nothing crash. MS-DOS works. 4DOS works. My application works. No errors messages. Seems to be stable ... But in 640x480 (VGA) I haven't spent a lot of time like that ! My next step is to find all the drivers I need and except for serial and parallel it doesn't seems to be an easy thing ... Alex.

@MrMateczko : I've done a look at my BIOS about SATA setting : Everything seems correct. Everything is set to IDE as it would I think. @dencorso : My LG CD-Drive is a burner. It burns CD only not DVD and it seems not be a super-multi as my LG DVD-Burner (died!) this one was a super-multi ... As I said: "For the tests, SATA drives HDD and Blu-Ray were unplugged" but it's a 1TB Magnetic HDD and a LG Blu-Ray burner (brand new one) but unplugged. Add: SATA 3Gb and SATA 6Gb for a total of 13 disks maximum. Win98 recognize OK 5 dual channel PCI controllers. And 10 fifo (2x 5) primary and secondary are invalid (yellow explanation mark in system's peripherals). Discussion about VM : Everything with the VM works fine for me (no problem at all). I just need/want to run both Win98 boot from IDE Drive AND from VM Player (Win8) with multiple hardware profiles on Win98. Of course, it is not the subject of this thread ! Just to explain a bit more : On the VM I ran with 128MB (set in VMware) of RAM and it's OK. Video is a virtual VMware driver sure you know about that. On IDE boot I use MaxPhysPage=30000 and get 768MB of memory and about video driver it's problematic as Catalyst 6.2 (latest for Win98) don't recognized my Radeon 7750 and the driver furnished with my card for XP don't work under Win98 even with KernelEx. Oh yes, I forgot to mention I use famous Xeno86 KernelEx ... Alex.

@MrMateczko : I finally try your advice and renamed ESDI_506.PDR and ... now it works ! I can reach Desktop !! 15/05/1998 20:01 24 406 ESDIx506.PDR I've changed nothing else ... no [vcache] no MaxFileCache nothing ... MS-DOS box (and also 4DOS) works ! I'm no more in safe mode ! Nice, I'm amazed !!! @dencorso: Perhaps, I will be the first running Windows 98 First Edition in your list ... ? Of course, I've a lot of yellow explanation mark in "System's Peripherals" but it starts now ... Ohhhh : still no IDE CD-ROM Drive ... Alex. Thanks a lot Mr Mateczko ! Add: @dencorso: OK, I've read that : Igor Leyko's article.

Yes, no values works for me. I've tried 16384 as you said, 524288, 393216. All the same : boot then stopped. Andy suggest others values... Remember, I have no error messages (no "not enough memory"...). Everything stopped just after DOS screen and just before Windows Desktop... About RLoew's patch (RAM limitation) : What is exactly the role of that patch ? This isn't clear in fact : "This Patch has an option to increase a memory resource that is required to prevent the "VFAT Device Initialization Failed" Error or other Error that occurs when the resource is depleted. This often happens with newer Ethernet Drivers or if you have a very large Registry." What file(s) will the patch change / modify ? Will my machine continue to work under my VM (VMware Player) after ? 1GB of my video card ?? It's my old HDD (Hard-drive so Magnetic not Memory SSD) : 12GB (sold for a 13GB) set as master. CD-Drive is set at slave of course. No changes that way: same as before in 1998 For the tests, SATA drives HDD and Blu-Ray were unplugged... Win98 just seems to have recognized the multiples IDE cards ... !!! !!! Thanks ! Add: Of course nothing in the BIOS could help us ! Nothing about shadow-ram and so ... No option to decrease memory to 512MB :D Alex. PS for condor : In 1998, I was unable to run Win95 on a Win98 machine... Today I'm able to run Win98 (in safe-mode for the moment) on a 2010 machine ! Better, no ?

No, it's an IDE drive with a native IDE controller's card (my Gigabyte mother-board have one - chip: iTE IT8213). One cable with a maximum of 2 drives (hard disks and/or optical disks). Win98 seems to have recognized a lot of IDE controller (probably all of my SATA 3Gb and SATA 6Gb perhaps more... ). Don't know how it will handle all that with only 2 IRQs 14 and 15 Remark: Sadly, my CD-Drive which is IDE also seems not to be recognized by Win98 (but it's only safe mode) ... :angrym: And it was the one I used before with my original old desktop Win98. Alex. PS: I've made no change, nothing about ramdrive, himem, XMSDSK, RAM Limitation patch... vcache...etc... Anybody have done good results with Win98 first edition ? Yes ESDI is present in iosubsys : 15/05/1998 20:01 24 406 ESDI_506.PDR

Hi everybody ! OS: Windows 98 First Edition Memory: 4GB (2x 2GB - Corsair) Motherboard: Gigabyte P55A-UD4 Proc: Pentium G6950 @ 2,8GHz Video: XFX R7750 Core Edition VGA - PCI Express 3.0 - 1GB Added : IDE: Magnetic 12GB HDD + Optical CD-Drive. SATA: 1TB HDD + Optical Blu-Ray Drive. And also : FDD (yes old Floppy Disk Drive 3"1/2) works fine ! COM1 (inboard 16550 serial port for mice) works fine also ! LPT1 (inboard LPT for parallel printer) works fine and printer well recognized by Win98 as before - whou ! SYSTEM.INI : [386Enh] MaxPhysPage=30000 [vcache] (nothing here as any value of MaxFileCache DON'T works for me...) SYSTEM.CB : [386Enh] MaxPhysPage=30000 So, it is my latest machine on which I would like to install Windows 98 first edition after my older machine from 1998 died. This is First Edition as many of you use Second Edition or Me ! That's why I wrote that message... Of course everything works fine in a VM but that's another story ... We all want Win98 be installed without a VM. I need that ! I've just modified System.ini and System.CB (great Usher's idea!) with MaxPhysPage as Microsoft recommended ... I have installed Win98 with no problem and with Usher's idea I can now run some applications in Safe Mode ! But when I run Win98 normally it stopped. Only Safe Mode Works. No "Error Memory - config.sys or autoexec.bat ... - qui applications" message (because of MaxPhysPage mentioned)... It seems Vcache.vxd Xeno's patch is intended only for Second Edition... Truth ? I'm sure with only 2GB (not 4GB) it would be easier ... but I don't want to put one again for Windows 8... I want to be added in the succesfull list of machine running natively Windows 98 in 2014 but for the moment with only Safe Mode working it's only 50% of the job done... So ? Clues ? Solution ? [Added: With ESDI_506.PDR renamed as ESDIx506.PDR I can reach desktop now in normal mode (not safe-mode) ! ] Alex - Ca/\/al.