well, i can boot into FreeDOS on the USB drive but it doesnt seem to see the SATA HDD at all
maybe i will just install XP since i know my way around that
well, booting XP installer from USB turns out to be harder than even OS 9. pondering whether burning a CD or installing to the HDD via a VM would be less annoying
also i am starting to want a PicoIDE
partner fell asleep so i gotta quietly move this stuff out of the living room 😄
for the VM route i guess i first need a SATA AHCI driver for the controller VirtualBox emulates and then another one post installation for the actual mobo. urgh
now making an ISO containing ICH8M driver using nLite...
"Don't contact Microsoft for troubleshooting nLited installations" dont tell me what to do!!
yes hello john microsoft. kindly fix my XP installation
man Disk Management sucks (on Windows 10)
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wow theres installation music? i dont think ive ever had working audio at this point before
i believe i have the correct driver installed now but the Athlon machine will not boot from the SATA drive
fine. i will try IDE
Your computer will be faster and more reliable
VM-installed XP on an IDE drive gets a bit further, to the "Windows failed to start up" screen where it offers safe mode and such. but no luck from there, safe mode or not
in order to feel like i accomplished something before i go to bed i installed Debian 12. but i accidentally accepted the default GNOME install option. it takes several eternities to boot and runs at 1 frame per sometimes. lol
anyway sleep now, more suffering later
this is me trying to install FreeDOS to the IDE drive, which unlike SATA was at least detected. but.. yeah
i did the minimal install and that seems to have finished ok
i was internet-brainedly looking for a FreeDOS beginner's guide today but there is of course documentation built in
the next thing is to transfer files to the machine somehow. probably over USB or LAN. but im sleepy
okay USB just works, at least if i have the drive plugged in on boot. nice
learning about DOS reminds me of my networking classes back in the day. all these acronyms
i seemingly got SBEMU working but when i try running Doom with it, depending on DOS startup settings and SBEMU card type, it either crashes on launch or during gameplay. and in either case there is no sound
maybe i need a simpler sound test program..
VSBHDA doesnt crash but still no sound, in either Doom or legendary finnish game Wings
this *is* supposed to be one of the supported chipsets (VT8237). hmm
tried disabling the USB2.0 controller as it shares an IRQ with the onboard audio, but no difference
hmm some unresolved VT8237 issues here https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA/issues/23
so maybe it just doesnt work
Not working on VT8237 (Asus mobo) · Issue #23 · Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA
Even though the initialization is successful and the protected mode support is enabled, the PM app I am using to try the emulation is saying "Hardware init failure" and refuses to start. It is the ...
not sure what the next thing to try from here would be. do i get a SB Live or Audigy for PCI?
remember when i owned a SB Live until less than a year ago? 😂
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here is a tough one though. do i bring these PCI cards over to the new place just in case i might one day decide to get into retro non-mac PCs
(i am pretty sure we sold it, but not 100%)
moral of the story: never get rid of anything
since i dont have audio i might as well look into the AGP GPU flashing thing. it seems the system will not start up with the Radeon connected, or at least i get nothing from the onboard VGA
this is a problem because the AGP card's firmware is currently fucked, so it of course also gives no video
BIOS is configured to prioritize PCI graphics over AGP. not sure if that also is supposed to apply to the onboard graphics or if i actually need a separate PCI card
apparently i ordered a PCI GPU in december. tracking says "Last-mile supplier received" in january, unclear if there are supposed to be updates after this. i dont think i received it..
it is hard to rule out completely since everything is chaos around here but i cant find it in any of the obvious places at least
i ordered another very cheap ATI Rage XL PCI just in case. it was from a different ebay seller than the first one, but according to finnish post the sender was the same. today i received both cards. lol
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