Hi all, First off, thank you for the replies. Second, I apologize for the late reply: I was dealing with some personal health issues. As I am now back in the land of the living I thought I'd show my appreciation to God by using my precious and finite time on this mortal coil to play with my FreeDOS PC :-)
UPDATE: Nvidia GeForce2 MX AGP works. As I have onboard video on this PC I went to using that instead of the Nvidia GeForce2 MX AGP card (that *I think* only has 32MB RAM, not 256 MB RAM as I previously stated) and I moved on to getting SBEMU to work (SBEMU works but all games freeze, dunno what that is about) ANYWAY as a part of installing SBEMU it complained about something to do with IRQ. I went into the BIOS and changed it to IRQ 5 to whatever it had before (I am detail oriented as you can tell) that resolved that particular issue with SBEMU. I then decided to reply to these questions y'all had by making a video showing what happens, posting it to YouTube and sharing the link here. I started filming fully expecting FreeDOS to freeze on boot as it had every other time I tried booting with this Nvidia GeForce2 MX AGP card... but it didn't. Surprisingly It works. Only things I have done are 1.) did a new install FreeDOS 1.3 to a 160GB WD Caviar HD that I had previous zero'd out 2.) the above described IRQ change on the to the onboard PCI sound chip. 3.)Changed the AGP aperture size to 64MB I don't know why this works now, but it works. Thanks again for the help! Cheers, Dan On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 at 18:03, G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Mon, 30 Sep 2024, Daniel Doran via Freedos-user wrote: > > > I got an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX AGP graphics card (256MB RAM), it’s in my > > Compaq Presario 6207EA PC. FreeDOS won’t boot with it installed, it just > > freezes. However, I know the card is good as Haiku OS loves it, not only > > does it work but it gives me accelerated graphics on Haiku OS 32-bit… so > I > > know the card is good. Anyone know why FreeDOS doesn’t like it? > > Sorry, I can't offer any specific help but maybe there might be ways > around it. Maybe. > > Although I didn't have a lot of luck trying to find specs for the PC > it looks like the Compaq has Intel Extreme 845 graphics on board, do > you think FreeDOS might be trying to use that by accident? Maybe you > could try disabling it in the BIOS or something? I have no idea if > that's even possible on your PC. > > In the brief search I did for your card I haven't found one with 256MB > RAM, they were all 32MB, but that probably doesn't matter anyway. > > Do you *know* that FreeDOS isn't booting - or does it just not show > anything on the screen when you're trying to use the Nvidia card? If > that's a plausible theory, maybe you could put something which beeps > the sounder in AUTOEXEC.BAT to confirm it gets that far, or otherwise? > If it does get that far, perhaps you've made some progress. > > If it's just that FreeDOS is trying to use the Nvidia card but can't > drive it you *might* have luck by trying assorted DOS drivers for it, > including old ones, but it's likely to be very hit and miss. > > Have you tried booting only with one single FreeDOS image? It might > be worth trying others - particularly other versions. > > Have you tried booting MS-DOS? > > Have you tried any other video cards? > > Have you considered trying to run FreeDOS in a virtual machine? > Obviously that would depend on being able to run the VM software > somehow - I don't know anything about Haiku but what little I've seen > tells me that might be a tall order, maybe easier with e.g. Linux but > I don't know how that might go on the Compaq. How much RAM is in it? > > -- > > 73, > Ged._______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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