Anybody know if it is possible to install and dual boot either WinME or Win98 on a LGA775 mainboard? I had a EVGA 680i SLI board that is suspect (has trouble booting up on a couple SATA drives), so I got a cheap Intel DP965 board for $35 and swapped them out. So current setup is a Q6700 running at stock 2.67GHz, 4 gigs of DDR2-800, ATI 5750 video card, Kingston SSD boot drive plus a bunch of WD storage drives, and a couple of Pioneer DVR-111D DVD burners on the PATA ribbon cable, plus a floppy drive. I successfully reinstalled XP on it so I know everything works fine. I then pulled out all the drives and plugged in a 250GB drive with a primary partition formatted with FAT32, to install ME or 98 on.
When booting up with a MSDOS 6.0 floppy, WinME DOS boot CD, Win98 boot floppy, or even the boot setup floppy for Win95, the CDROM drivers OAKCDROM.SYS and BTCDROM.SYS fail to see either of the DVD drives on the PATA cable. I swapped out the master with an old Yamaha CD burner set to master, same result. I went on Pioneer's website and found a DOS driver for a bunch of older DVD drives (105) and tried it - similar result - "cannot communicate with the CD drive".
I did a BIOS update on the Intel board, but note that the specs state it is compatible with XP, Win2K and later. Ditto with the EVGA board. So now I'm thinking there is some change to the southbridge controller that Intel made when they came out with the LGA775 specs, that prevents older drivers from seeing the CD (or DVD) drives on the parallel ATA bus.
I've read a lot of the posts here stating that Win98 doesn't like CPUs running over 1 or maybe 2 GHz (at least during setup) or more than 500MB of memory, but what about ME?
Any help greatly appreciated, TIA..
When booting up with a MSDOS 6.0 floppy, WinME DOS boot CD, Win98 boot floppy, or even the boot setup floppy for Win95, the CDROM drivers OAKCDROM.SYS and BTCDROM.SYS fail to see either of the DVD drives on the PATA cable. I swapped out the master with an old Yamaha CD burner set to master, same result. I went on Pioneer's website and found a DOS driver for a bunch of older DVD drives (105) and tried it - similar result - "cannot communicate with the CD drive".
I did a BIOS update on the Intel board, but note that the specs state it is compatible with XP, Win2K and later. Ditto with the EVGA board. So now I'm thinking there is some change to the southbridge controller that Intel made when they came out with the LGA775 specs, that prevents older drivers from seeing the CD (or DVD) drives on the parallel ATA bus.
I've read a lot of the posts here stating that Win98 doesn't like CPUs running over 1 or maybe 2 GHz (at least during setup) or more than 500MB of memory, but what about ME?
Any help greatly appreciated, TIA..