This serves as a replacement shell for Windows and as a way for novice users to navigate their system. I’m not sure if the actual system even had onboard USB ports or if they were even functional, this was early 1996 when the motherboard was designed. The motherboard BIOS has references to USB support, but this seems to randomly appear and disappear when entering setup, possibly an issue with the emulation? Once again the system reboots and performs the device detection process. You will be prompted to enter an OEM serial key, so be sure to have one when installing. The recovery process then started, with a Windows 3.11 looking dialog box appearing to transfer various files to the hard drive.Īfter the file had finished copying over, the computer rebooted and started the Windows 95 setup utility, which looked the same as a generic install. A warning message popped up regarding the number not being recognized but offered to install anyway. Since we did not have this to hand, we were able to bypass this by entering a series of random numbers. ![]() When starting the OS recovery process, we were prompted to enter the system serial number to identify the system that we were running on. The only option that worked was the Windows 95 recovery since our virtual machine had currently lacked a formatted drive. Re-Install the Windows 95 operating system Once started, a recovery version of Windows 95 started up, and we were presented with the Packard Bell recovery screen where we were given a list of a few options: InstallĪ floppy disk was required to initiate the installation, since the CD was not bootable, despite the motherboard BIOS supporting CD-ROM booting. The SoundCard differs, using the Aztech 2316R, whilst 86Box is able to emulate the Aztech SoundGalaxy Washington instead, being the closest match. The S3 ViRGE is supported on 86Box, albeit a slightly different variant that the Packard bell had used, possibly an OEM exclusive model. A mid-range OEM system released in 1996, when Windows 95 was beginning to hit its stride, and another system we can (mostly) recreate in 86Box
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