Newer hardware and older OSes.

I have an Asus A8N32SLI mobo with an AMD 4800 dual core CPU. and 2gig. memory.

i have MS-Dos 6.22 loaded and it works fine.

I installed Win 3.1 but, here is the kicker, when the comp. boots up in Dos, all is fine until I type in "Win" at the prompt and press enter. The screen goes to the Win 3.1 Welcome screen and the comp. Locks up. WTF?

I went into the bios and diabled the plug-n-play OS option and tried everything that I could think of that may mess-up Win 3.1 to no avail... Dang.

So, next I tried to install 98SE. NOT... the boot disk hangs right after the CD-ROM driver is loaded and starts to do a PCI scan, USING "Mechanism #2" WTF is that??? LOCKED-UP AGAIN...

I had XP-64 running on it before, Had a couple of video bugs but ran non the less... The trial period ended so I wiped the drive and repartitioned it with Dos-6.22 fdisk.

Is there an issue with old OSes and newer hardware?

Thanks.

F.Y.I.; I plan on having multiple OSes on this comp.
Dos-6.22
Win-3.1
98SE
XP
XP-64
and 2 or 3 Linux distros.
Not sure about Vista yet though...

 

Your best bet is to run VMWare Workstation or M$ Virtual PC to run those older OSes on a new system. Plus you dont have to reboot into each OS, they run in different windows. I could only image the issues theold OSes are having with the new hardware.. for one I heard Win 98 only handles 512 MB, altough I installed it with a gig in place & cut it down later to get it more stable.

 

Thanks but that does'nt help.
I am trying to set it up for multi-boot configuration, not an emulator.

Is there such a thing as a generic DOS CD-ROM driver? I beleive I can get 98 to install if I had the dos driver.

 

Yes. If you have a 98 boot floppy the oak file is the one that will load a driver for a CD in DOS.

 

Got it. Thanks all.

 

I would imagine that the older OSes will have a heck of time with dual core processors. And what about video drivers for Win3.1??? Unless you're running an OLD Virge or Trident PCI video card, or maybe a Tseng Labs ISA video card... remember those? ... which brings me to another question: Win3.1??? MSDOS 6.22??? Why??? :confused

 

Tried 3.1, locks. Uselesss anyway. not used.
Tried 98, Can get only base to run. 1gig ram limit. no drivers.

My intent for DOS-6.22 and 98se OSes are 2 fold.

1; Format partitions to DOS-6.22 FAT, so I can defrag 98 and XP partitions Completely... via DOS-6.22 defrag and have better control of Win files and also prevent compileing.

2; Install 98se for 98 Native, 16 bit and older 32's, Apps. and Games and game Controlers that aren't made for, or run well in, XP.