It could be, it worked fine on the Gigabyte 5smm but won't even post with it installed in the Asus. It's a really old card, I've had it for years but have no idea what version of PCI it is. If I could find a PCI Voodoo3, I'd use the gigabyte board, it was a mini ATX board and a mini DOS/Win98 …

I really didn't have any trouble. It has a modem built in on the card but I just ignored it and downloaded a driver for the chipset and works great even in DOS. The card is nice since it has lots of internal connections for input and output. I just rewired the stock AC'97 pinout to match the pins on …

Actually now that I think about it that limit was from the gigabyte board, a 5smm. I thought it was odd to, but was mentioned in the patch notes on the last bios that it was increased but that bios will not work with the plus chips so had to roll back to an earlier one.

I had be gathering parts over the last few weeks, and finally my Super 7 retro machine lives. It's that kind of build that I wanted back in 99' that I couldn't afford as a kid. Case is a modern Thermal Master from Microcenter (Nice case for the price for these kind of builds) Motherboard is an Asus …

Envious of that computer! Also profile shows Illinois, me aswell, but I have a hard time finding good recycling places, I'm just SW of Chicago, any suggestions if you are from the area. Thrift stores tend to be a dead end for me. Today I officially became a member of Vogons. lol Seems like everyone …

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Buy a cheap case and get out the hacksaw

I had a friend give me a dumpster find. Figured something old, actually got a Core 2 quad Q6600 Eva SLI motherboard cooler Master 850w PS Nvidia video card haven't checked which one 320 WD Blue 4GB ddr2 (I think) All in a Cooler Master case (it's a huge one and a bit scuffed up but still useable)

Yes a rubber band will not work correctly. The belts are pretty common online, I'm sure you can find one, they aren't anywhere near as stretchy as a rubber band.

I repair 80s boomboxes and you can still get belts, you can find quite a bit on ebay, I happened to just fix a drive like that in my NEC pentium mmx laptop. You want to look for something like a SCY7.5 belt, that's 7.5 inches and Ys are the thinest. A 7.8 might be ok too.

That's what the sound card looks like, I don't remember where it came from, pulled it out of something long ago.

gdjacobs wrote: Cool! What's the Crystal card that you have? Acer or Turtle Beach? I am unsure, it has a modem built in on the same card. I hope to ignore the modem, have been waiting to build it to see what drivers I'll need.

A Crystal ISA Sound Card with YMF262 Very nice! Just to warm you though you need a power supply with the -5v rail for isa sound or you will have issues with a lot of older isa sound cards. You're right that this can be an issue with old isa sound cards, but there aren't many that are affected. The …

I was really hoping to have DVI as the LCD I'd like to use has no VGA input. I would have liked to get a PCI Voodoo but can't seem to locate one. I looked and It seems I have a power supply that has -5 .5A output, I'd imagine that's enough. So get an active vga to dvi agapter Do these introduce lag …

I was really hoping to have DVI as the LCD I'd like to use has no VGA input. I would have liked to get a PCI Voodoo but can't seem to locate one. I looked and It seems I have a power supply that has -5 .5A output, I'd imagine that's enough.

So I'm new to the site and was looking to build a Super Socket 7 PC for some DOS and early windows gaming (The good ol' days) I'm not a stranger to PC building but I made a large jump that pretty much passed over the pentium I and II era. I've picked up some parts of ebay, can never find anything …