As with likely all of us with experience from DOS and the early Windows years prior to ACPI IRQ sharing, very likely an IRQ conflict with the effect of add-on hardware not working as intended. Although your other two possible resolutions could possibly also cause similar, however unlikely, but not unheard of.
On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 11:14 AM Daniel Doran via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
