First post, by Eleanor1967
Hey guys,
I want to apologize if this isn't the right forum for my “I have a problem” question, but I never had any luck with vintage hardware in more general computer forums so I just wanna give it a go here 😉
I'm in the process of building a Socket 7 gaming rig for anything my 486 cant handle anymore, but I just can't get the system to boot of anything. I tried different versions of DOS of 3 different floppy drives, I tried booting 2 Versions of Windows 98 of different CD-ROM drives and I even tried just plugging in my 486s hard drive with Windows 95 on it. Nothing. The system can boot into BIOS all day long and didn't crash on me once so I assume the hardware should be fine.
Speaking of hardware, its (right now) a
- FIC PA-2002 (VIA Apollo Master) If you'r cappable of german or can deal with google translate, here is alot of inforamtion on the board
- Pentium i200 @ 166 Mhz cause at least according to he manual there is no way of getting the clock any higher
- 48 MB of Memory in 4 sticks
- Matrox Mystic 220
I do think the system recognize the different boot mediums, hence it twice printed “Updating ESCD.... success” while booting DOS and it always prints this while trying to boot of CD-ROM.
I'm quite clueless of what is going wrong and would really appreciate if someone could give me some tips or suggestions on how to get his thing to boot anything. 😀
Cheers,
Eleanor1967