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So I've been looking at the popular asrock 775i65G R3.0 board for a win98/dos machine but have read conflicting things about how a pci sound card would work. I have a Yamaha YMF 744 card that was supposed to be good for DOS but I read here: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide that the board I have does not support DDMA and therefore the card won't work under DOS.
But then I saw a video by philscomputerlab that states the i865 chipset is great for dos/win98 and apparently works fine with at least the aureal vortex 2: _mvKfuQ. But unfortunately aureal vortex 2 cards aren't exactly cheap.
Hm, so I guess the only solution is to invest in a aureal vortex card? Do all of them work, even vortex 2 (AU8830)? I'm not sure why that philscomputerlab video would state that a pentium4 is good for DOS as well as win98 if he just happened to be using the only sound card that would actually work with it.
No real specific games I want to play, although I did have issues with the colors in mortal kombat trilogy in win98 (windows version would not work for some reason) so I might try that in DOS. I play mostly action oriented games, not a lot of adventure. Most likely only playing late or very late dos releases that don't work well in win98. I would actually prefer using dosbox but I've found it impossible to get a good vsync'd image from it and apparently you need a gsync monitor for that.
- ESS-Solo1 works great under Dos (SFX/FM)
- ESS-Solo1 does not work with VXD-Drivers under Win9x, WDM-Drivers do work but require to deactivate the USB2.0 support, otherwise the ressources collide. I can't change the USB2.0 Controller resources on that MB.
Since I'm using an SSD I was just going to use the same sata to pata adapter (recommended by philscomputerlab) that I used on my socket 939 VIA chipset which worked fine for that board. However, after I had installed everything and then later came back to the machine, it just wouldn't boot to Windows. I decided to install again but then the setup wouldn't initialize. I even restored an image I had made just after I got everything working and that wouldn't boot either.
I then had issues reinstalling from a usb key where it seemed that some of the ports were forcing usb 1.1 speeds no matter what settings I tried in the bios. This is after I had just successfully installed using the same exact key and got decent speeds. I was able to get that working eventually by using the ports closest to the onboard audio. After that I just decided to use sata instead and so far that hasn't failed to boot Windows yet. I'm surprised sata would be more compatible than pata on this board with Windows 98 but I guess it's the adapter that's causing the issues?
I suppose having sata working is good compared to the socket 939 board which didn't work. But since there are only 2 sata ports and I have no native IDE drives that kind of limits my options. That's assuming that there's nothing actually wrong with IDE on this board.
I'm using himemx only for limiting memory to 512MB for Windows 98SE. Don't know about other advantages. For DOS I'm not using it.
Jemmex is himem.sys+emm386.exe in one executable, it also can limit EMS memory to 16MB, so i.e. Aladdin is working (Aladdin needs EMS memory, but if there is more than 16MB it falsely reports about "not enough EMS memory"). Plus - in this configuration (i865G+1GB) when I tried to run emm386.exe and next DSDMA - computer was restarting - didn't go to the DOS prompt. With jemmex everything is working fine.
Did you try running the SATA controller of your socket 939 board in RAID mode? At least the VT8237S southbridge got working drivers under Windows 98 when the controller runs in RAID mode, unfortunately it's capped at 150MB/s (using a OCZ Vertex 30GB detected as SATAII in the RAID BIOS screen).
No, I read that RAID mode is what makes it incompatible with Windows 98 and you have to use IDE mode, at least for installing the operating system to it. I didn't really try messing with it after having already installed Windows because IDE seemed to perform decent enough and didn't really need another drive connected since I was already using a 128gb SSD on IDE.
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