Windows 98 on VirtualBox says System Halted

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teanster123
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Windows 98 on VirtualBox says System Halted

Post by teanster123 »

I'm also having a problem with starting up the VirtualBox too. Every time I start up the Windows 98 on the VirtualBox, it says System Halted before I can even open up my keyboard thing that's used for the VirtualBox. Is there any way you can help me?
Last edited by scottgus1 on 1. Jul 2022, 01:30, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: changed topic title to reflect problem
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Re: Windows 98 on VirtualBox says System Halted

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I split this off your other topic to avoid confusion. One issue per thread

Please see Tutorial: Windows 95/98 guest OSes. If this does not help, please zip and post the VM's log.
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Re: Windows 98 on VirtualBox says System Halted

Post by mpack »

If this is the protection error problem then it's entirely a guest problem, it won't show much in the log. If this happens on Win98 then it's usually an incompatibility between Win98 and AMD Ryzen (I guess that much will be visible in the log).

There's an allegation that the following might help: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=82323&start=15#p392728. It would be good to get confirmation of the problem (i.e. Ryzen) and of the potential solution.
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