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HaRuMaN:


--- Quote from: shardian on February 03, 2009, 08:28:35 am ---Holy crap this pc has been a headache!!!

It is an IBM Aptiva E3N 300mhz with 160 RAM. I have tried Spystyles disk, tinyXP with mame32 and mame0.54, windows 98 with Spystyles MAME, and MAME.54

Every time there is something wonky with the video drivers or something. I got the MAME errors that are described in Spystyles boot disk thread, no matter what I did. In XP, there were ridiculous video card driver errors. In Windows 98, I had a directdraw error in MAME54. I could turn off ddraw to run the games, but they looked like crap and ran smaller than full screen with wonky colors - typical bad video driver behavior. Only thing was the onboard ATI Rage video was working properly according to windows98.

Anyone want to take a crack at getting me up and running. I was considering trying an AdvanceCD boot disk, but don't know if it is worth the CD with my current problems. I'm about to toss this POS PC off a bridge!!!


Oh, and the worst part? I once had this PC working properly with MAME54 and MAMEWAH before changing out to a bigger hard drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Why didn't you use a utility such as CLONEZILLA to move your OS and settings to your new, larger HD?

shardian:


--- Quote from: HarumaN on February 03, 2009, 08:35:02 am ---
--- Quote from: shardian on February 03, 2009, 08:28:35 am ---Holy crap this pc has been a headache!!!

It is an IBM Aptiva E3N 300mhz with 160 RAM. I have tried Spystyles disk, tinyXP with mame32 and mame0.54, windows 98 with Spystyles MAME, and MAME.54

Every time there is something wonky with the video drivers or something. I got the MAME errors that are described in Spystyles boot disk thread, no matter what I did. In XP, there were ridiculous video card driver errors. In Windows 98, I had a directdraw error in MAME54. I could turn off ddraw to run the games, but they looked like crap and ran smaller than full screen with wonky colors - typical bad video driver behavior. Only thing was the onboard ATI Rage video was working properly according to windows98.

Anyone want to take a crack at getting me up and running. I was considering trying an AdvanceCD boot disk, but don't know if it is worth the CD with my current problems. I'm about to toss this POS PC off a bridge!!!


Oh, and the worst part? I once had this PC working properly with MAME54 and MAMEWAH before changing out to a bigger hard drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

--- End quote ---

Why didn't you use a utility such as CLONEZILLA to move your OS and settings to your new, larger HD?

--- End quote ---

Because I sacrificed that old HD in a hurry a while back in an effort to save my desktop hard drive. I had forgotten about it until I fired the 300 mhz PC up the other day.

SavannahLion:

It's been a long long time since I delt with IBm and their onboard ATI video. Are you installing appropriate ATI drivers or are you using Win98's built in video drivers?

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From what I can recall. ATI didn't have universal drivers during this era (nVidia was just starting theirs). I had an IBM Aptiva with an Ati Rage II+DVD . It was a chip that should really never have existed. In any case, drivers were a little touchy and the stock Win98 certainly did not have full support for this chipset. It will report that it's functioning, but running DirectX tests (or just about any game) will show otherwise.

It wasn't long before I was supplanting the ARII+ with other GPU's. Voodoo2 in SLI, Rage 128, I think I even had a TNT in there at one point.

With a good GPU and a well tuned install of Win98, the IBM Aptiva's from that era (I had a 233MHz) runs extremely well for that class of machine. I kept my 233 competitive well after BH6/300A boards were done ripping new ---uvulas---.

shardian:


--- Quote from: SavannahLion on February 03, 2009, 01:20:01 pm ---

From what I can recall. ATI didn't have universal drivers during this era (nVidia was just starting theirs). I had an IBM Aptiva with an Ati Rage II+DVD . It was a chip that should really never have existed. In any case, drivers were a little touchy and the stock Win98 certainly did not have full support for this chipset. It will report that it's functioning, but running DirectX tests (or just about any game) will show otherwise.

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This would explain the direct draw failures, and the graphic/performance issues I would think. So I need to put something in that is not AGP rage. I don't think I have anything on-hand non ATI at the moment.

ghettodish:

Dunno if this helps, but..

Floppies can be formatted to hold more than 1.44MB. fdformat is one program that can do it, up to 1.7MB. Maxidisk is another. 1.9MB is also possible with other programs. This may help if someone is actually going to take on this project.

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