Guest rpgs rock dvds Posted April 19, 2008 Posted April 19, 2008 Are there are any noteworthy BIOS or Windows 98 settings I need to be aware of to get Win98 successfully installed on a QDI Advance 9 or 10 mobo? (VIA chipset). The reason I ask is that I am having a problem with Win98's ISA Plug and Play mechanism. Win98 is unable to detect any PnP ISA cards. Please note this occurs with the CMOS settings cleared and a clean Win98 install, plus I'm just using a basic VGA graphics card only, or occasionally this graphics card with a Soundblaster AWE64 (PnP ISA). For either hardware configuration mentioned above, inside Device Manager there appears to be some kind of resource problem with this System resource: "IO read data port for ISA Plug and Play enumerator" Looking at the configuration details, there's a conflict with both the Secondary IDE Controller (dual fifo) and also with VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller. I've tried changing the above-mentioned "ISA PnP enumerator's" resources to fix the conflict, but my changes don't appear to make an effect. Also, I don't seem to be able to adjust either of the two conflicting Controller's IRQ values, although I'm not too sure if that would help. I went to the chipset maker (VIA) website and downloaded a "4-in-1" chipset driver package and installed it, but unfortunately it didn't fix the problem. The BIOS appears to be on its latest revision. I also scoured the net's newsgroups and couldn't find any help that I haven't already tried. Thanks a lot if anyone can help, best regards, Robert. -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
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