I have a VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset motherboard with a PIII 450 on it. There are some memory timing parameters in the bios as well as some other parameters that include usb support, usb keyboard, usb mouse, assign irq for usb, assign irq for vga. Should I be assigning an IRQ for usb or vga? I'm trying to figure out why the nic locks up under freedos, yet it works just fine in Windows 98SE and MSDOS 6.22.
I tweaked the bios settings somehow and got the NIC to stop locking up on ssh, but I didn't get it to work. Sadly, I don't remember what I changed from the standard setup settings. I have my de220pt in static non PNP mode configured for irq 9 and io 0x240. Now that works when assign irq for vga and assign irq for usb are disabled. I will also note that ACPI uses IRQ 9 where I wonder if that is why I am having a problem under freedos? I've noticed that Windows 98SE likes to lock up if it sits for a while. I'm wondering if freedos understands modern and not so modern but newer than the 386 bios settings? Clearly, some settings in the bios seem to trip freedos up. I wish freedos had a more powerful version of Microsoft diagnostics that understands bios settings which can help one diagnose the bios having improper settings. After dos became passee in the Win9x era and especially the WinXP era, irq sharing and other bios level tweaks became prevalent. One of the problems on PCs has been poor resource management and poor bus design. This is one of the reasons why I wish that the Alpha had caught on, but that is another subject altogether. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
