Little help with patch needed+Check this out!

Anonymous

a couple of questions and few thoughts...

look at this: http://www.gaby.de/win3x/board/showtopi ... readid=217

I don't know german very well but this guy is mentioning DirectX9 on nt 3.51 and some other stuff!!

Check it out and post your opinions (one hopefully translate it... ).

There is also a few other interesting things on that forum (Win 3.1x support forum) :arrow: http://www.gaby.de/win3x/board/board.php?boardid=5

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Now something else, i've collected around internet all NT 3.51 hotfixes and updates, updated .dlls etc (now ~100MB).

Only thing that bugs me is what am i supposed to do with this winntpatch that makes nt 3.51 run better with newer hardvare. README says:

README wrote:

Here are ht patches to make NT 3.1/3.5 work on faster computers. Just chose your OS, then copy the relevant files into the installation directory before installation. That's all you need to do. This fully patches iit to work fine.

copy where? to hard disk? if so where? in C: or C:\winnt. i'm confused
Files in archive are: INITIAL.IN_ and setup.in_

Q

The last part: Before you install NT, extract all the setup files to a directory on the hard disk, EG. C:\NTINSTAL. Then, overwrite the INITIAL.IN_ and setup.in_ files in that directory with the ones you got from the archive.

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Anonymous

ok, thanks.

One more thing, there is new Universal ATA driver here: http://alter.org.ua/en/soft/win/uni_ata/#uniata_beta

But there is no explanation how to install it on NT 3.51

(web page is broken) :arrow: http://alter.org.ua/en/soft/win/uni_ata ... p#inst_nt3

Q

The fact that the steps before and after the error suggest that there's nothing missing, you just have to rename atapi.sys to atapi.bak, rename uniata.sys to atapi.sys and recycle the system.

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UglynGrey

I don't like that driver, I found it buggy as heck, the method I mentioned in the other thread on NT and the link to the article has it right for modern hardware in my opinion.

I do a lot of Dev work, stable is critical, my 3.51 installs were rock solid using that method

Q

The "other thread on NT" was about VPC.

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Anonymous

I know it says VPC, you can use the same method for installing on newer hardware. I've been able to get everything but RAID IDE working using that method. The VPC just happens to emulate newer hardware (Intel BX hardware, post NT 3.51 era).