@WileECoyote, maybe a longshot but have you tried any IDE drive other than the 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 - these have previously reported compatibility issues with some controllers. Also, think the CPU cooler in the other link is a Cooler Master HHC-001 Awesome, thank you! Now I just need to …

Perhaps try an 80-wire IDE cable... technically the 40-wire ones are good only for up to ATA-33. (Some MBs/BIOSes will detect this at POST and recommend replacing the cable, but perhaps your board doesn't do this). That's what is confusing to me. The board only support up to DMA33. I'll try the 80- …

Thanks bjwil1991! I tried clearing the CMOS via jumper, that didn't help so I tried reflashing with the /cc switch, still the same :( So I decided to try uniflash instead of awdflash but that didn't help either. Here's a pic of what I get when i try to boot after flashing w/o the 32gb limit jumper …

Hello fellow retro hardware enthusiasts! I am having issues getting my DFI P5BV3+ Rev.B2 board to recognize my 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 IDE HDD. It will work with the 32GB jumper on but the BIOS will not recognize the drive w/o that jumper. I downloaded a few BIOS updates that stated they …

I was able to get it to boot with L2 Cache enable BAAAAARELY at 66Mhz FSB and the RAM running at 66. But as soon as I run a program or an old PC bench, it freezes her right in her tracks. I'll have to see about borrowing a microscope to get a better view of the L2 Contacts etc. I'm not holding my …

I have one Pentium1 board which only functions right if L2 is disabled. I have replaced most parts on it and it still misbehaves making me think the board has some mechanical issue that causes the problem (broken via or something). At least on those older board you could replace the cache to see if …

Hmmm, I haven't tried with lower FSB. I'll give it a shot, tho I think you're right, the L2 cache might be toast. It's acting like it wants to be retired anyway, being as the keyboard fuse blew on it too. I guess I'll just bin this one for now. Thanks for everyone's suggestions

Actually this has to be it!? https://www.ebay.com/itm/352289635948

Still not sure what's up with this issue. The only way it will get past POST is with the L2 cache disabled 🙁

Can I use one of these???

Here is a pic of the Fuse that blew and my ghetto temp fix to verify. Now the question is... where do I find said fuse??? I think it reads 3Amp

I just checked the fuses "FS1" and "FS2" on the mobo with a DMM and it appears that one is blown. I'll post pics in a bit

I've also had that issue in the past where certain mobo/keyboard combos did not work, but I've been using this keyboard on this machine for a while, so the very first thing that crossed my mind was "Bad Keyboard". I tried the suspect keyboard on another computer and it worked. I used the other …

Hello everyone! I have a SS7 motherboard (Lucky Star 5mvp3) and I'm having keyboard issues. The KB lights up like it should, but it is not picking up keystrokes at all (and I cant press Del. to enter BIOS or anything) I don't know what happened, all I did was move the computer. I now have the board …

Have you tried removing everything on the PCI bus? Have you tried Clear ESCD option? I have everything stripped down to the PCI graphics card only (I've tried 2 other pci gfx cards, just for the heck of it), running only one stick of ram (I've moved the ram to different slots and used other known …

I just got a SS7 board the other day and can't seem to get it running unless the external cache is disabled. It is a Lucky Star 5mvp3 rev 4.1 with a K6-2 500 and BIOS version of LEB9-1. I've run it with several different sticks of PC100 and have even down clocked the CPU to 300Mhz but nothing will …