Greetings,
if i can help i would be glad to.
Machines i've :
my "old" 486 DX2 66 by digital equipment (olivetti rebranded) with win 3.11. The sound card is a sound blaster 16 (i've disabled windows sound system), videocard embedded is ati mach32, i've a also a network card (de220ct) and an adaptec AHA scsi card for cdrom (yamaha 16x10x40 rewritable). Disk inside is ESDI - 300MB, 5"1/4 1.2Mb floppy and 3"1/2 2.88Mb (EHD !). I play games under dos.
I've also my old game pc i rebuild (from 1998). It's an AT BOX with a Slot 1 (i've a celeron 300A).
Ram have been expanded from 384Mo to 768Mo (insane i now :-)
Card is ALI 726 (i think i've usb support but i didn't set)
I've VIP disk tray with a sdcard adapter inside 4GB
i've 3COM network card
My vodoo 4500 elpin works pretty good
And i've completed with an AWE64 CT4500 (4500 too lol)
I've 98SE (swap disabled because of the ram i've) with a lots of trouble in sound card conf and shutdown trouble (i've resolved this saturday !!! , short digest : bios disable APM, windows disable energy management, irq for VGA : no way. Managed to restart from dos with edition of "Exit to dos.pif", parameters, advanced, tick new dos conf with default config.sys and autoexec.bat.
OK but no clean shutdown (hangs) : Test with sysedit and msconfig with selective startup, disable all, then add wini.ini, system.ini, config.sys, autoexec.bat => error was EMM386 RAM AUTO (and not related to shutdown supplement to disable fastshutdown ... tricky ...)
Finally i've disabled EMM386line on the windows conf (but not in resart to dos conf), i've the AWE driver and i've pif shortcut to play dosgames and it worked well (quakegl, dukenukem3D, doom, wolfenstein 3D, Raptor call of the shadow, blood, lands of lore, ...)
So my question is : may i know the configuration you have ? There is "486" and "486". I ask that because of 98SE usage.
CLS.