Help please, Shuttle AK32E + MSI K7T Turbo

[blackbird58]

Hello, I am having trouble using Maxtor 160 GB hard drives with these MBs. I can't seem to get these motherboards to recognize the full capacity to install Win98. THis is the full retail version I want install, before I upgrade them to Win98se. Both motherboards have the latest bios installed. Any help would be great. Both boards have over 1 gig of memory installed and working cd-roms on controller 2.

Thanks,
For any ideas and help.
Blackbird58

 

[fell8]

Win98 sometimes doesn't like that much memory. Try 512, see what that does. Good luck.

 

[tcsenter]

Are the mainboards correctly detecting the full capacity at POST screen or are you having problems with Windows 98 recognizing the full capacity (or installing)?

There are a couple articles on MS Knowledgebase with Win98 Gold requiring a patch/fix for large capacity HDD. The FDISK included with Win98/98SE also cannot be used to partition HDDs larger than 64GB IIRC. You need a new version of FDISK that is available from MS.

As fell8noted, I would recommend pulling 512MB of RAM out of each system because all versions of Windows 9x freak out with more than 512MB~768MB of RAM without some system tweaks. Shuttle says BIOS version SE07 has been tested up to 200GB, and for the K7T Turbo you should have BIOS version 3.6 for 160GB HDD.

 

[KF]

Since I have never tried putting W98 on a huge disk without partitioning it, I don't know for sure, but 160G could be too large for a single partition.

I believe you may be able to install the W98se upgrade version directly, but at some point it will ask you to put the full W98 CD in the CDROM to verify it is an upgrade. I think MS also had an upgrade that was rigged to only install from within W98.