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Dell dimension 3000 finally working!

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First post, by Greywolf1

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Got my dell dimension 3000 finally working with win98

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865gv GHz 3 .0
512mb ram
Hdd 30gb, 40gb
DVD/cd
GeForce fx 5500 256mb
Audigy 2 zs

While I got the system working with good graphics and sound and even usb I’ve had to still use ps/2 mouse and keyboard.
I’ve tried a batch of games and the ones from win98 up over work but the quite a few dos/win95 crash or lose component function like sound.
If I reboot to dos I lose my cd/dvd rom drive.
I’ve not attempted to install xp yet tho I have limited issues now installing that successfully.
I don’t remember having issues playing these game under win98 back in 98 so can’t understand why they are causing so many problems now.

Reply 1 of 2, by chinny22

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In Device Manager you should have an entry called Legacy Audio Device (or something like that) Which is what emulates a Dos sound blaster, sometimes this is missing and needs a driver reinstall.
The missing CD drive when rebooting into dos will be due to missing the following:

In autoexec.bat
MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /L:D

In config.sys
DEVICE=C:\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001

You'll have to download oakcdrom.sys (or an alternative) the above example has it saved in c:\ but you can put it in another subfolder if you wish.

How do you boot into dos mode? as this changes where you add the lines.

Reply 2 of 2, by Greywolf1

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Either f8 at boot up or restart from win98

Also I disabled legacy sound in bios so I could install audigy 2zs drivers without conflict.

Reading up on things I think part of my problem is that my cd/dvd drive is assigned E: and I’m unable to force it to D: as the second hdd is locked to it

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