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Windows 9x QuickInstall - Known Issues & Frequently Asked Questions
Visit http://github.com/oerg866/win98-quickinstall for the latest info.
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Q: My i865/i875 board freezes during hardware detection and on boot when
installing on a SATA drive
And it stops freezing when I disable the USB controller
A: There is an IRQ sharing issue paired with a BIOS bug. You must either
disable the USB controller, disable the SATA controller or set the SATA
controller to Primary / Secondary IDE mode.
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Q: The USB 2.0 driver fails to load on my i865/i875 based motherboard.
A: Disable "Legacy USB support" in the BIOS.
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Q: My Marvell Yukon / Broadcom gigabit ethernet chip has a large failure
rate on any network activity.
A: The native drivers for these chips are known to be *extremely* eccentric.
Please try to use the NDIS2 drivers for these chips, as they are much
more stable (but also slower).
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Q: Why are there less supported network chips on my Windows ME images than
on Windows 98 SE?
A: Because Microsoft removed NDIS2 driver support in ME, which means the
industrial DOS drivers for modern Gigabit+-class ethernet chips cannot
be used.
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Q: How big can my hard disks be with this version of Windows 9x?
A: Theoretically there should be no problem with LBA48 or even LBA64 drives,
the IDE drivers and system files are prepared for this, however since the
initial boot process is purely DOS/INT13h based, the boot partition
MUST be within and MUST NOT exceed the first 137GB.
You also CANNOT use a drive formatted to 4kn sector size as your boot
drive. (For usage *within* Windows it is okay, though, if the drivers
permit it.)
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Q: Windows refuses to enable virtual memory!
A: You have installed on a partition larger than or exceeding the first 137
GB. Windows has a bug where virtual memory stops working on the C-drive
after ~210 GB. Please resize your partition.
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Q: I am getting read or write errors during installation
A: Hardware in the 90s and 2000s was eccentric! Especially with regards to
faster Multi-Word or Ultra DMA transfer modes on IDE/SATA controllers.
The Floppy, CD/DVD and USB images allow you to boot the kernel with
disabled DMA modes, which may help work around the problem!
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Q: Windows freezes when booting after installing from a USB Key
A: There is some trouble with USB-Handoff with BIOSes that provide "legacy
emulation", i.e. access to USB mass storage via Int13h.
If this problem occurs, please unplug USB mass storage devices when
booting. You may plug them again afterwards.
Note: This problem should be solved in 1.0.1 reference images, but I
cannot guarantee 100% success rate.
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Q: I'm getting I/O and read errors, segmentation faults and other weird
behavior when installing from CD on an Intel i430 / i440-based system
with an Intel 82371SB south bridge (e.g. i440FX)
A: This problem has been verified by Deksor, Rigo and myself, and is a
deeply rooted problem in the chipset that has existed since at
Linux kernel version 2.4.xx, but Windows 9x is also affected.
Operating the drives in PIO mode, BIOS update, using a different optical
drive or using a separate PCI IDE/SATA controller may help.
It is believed to be a timing problem combined with buggy optical drive
firmware at this time.
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Q: On a VIA MVP3 board Windows fails booting with a "General Protection
Fault" on the first boot
A: Switch "Skip legacy non-PnP hardware detection" to OFF.
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Q: I'm trying to install on my 486 and I'm getting Disk I/O errors!
A: Your BIOS might have an incomplete/buggy LBA implementation. Partition
the drive with CHS and try again.
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Q: I'm building my own image and I'm getting a python error about non-zero
return code in msdos.exe.
A: This problem happens when running the script on Windows whilst the script
directory is in a share hosted by a WSL session.
Run the script from the WSL Linux shell instead.