I'm still in the process of testing it, at 83 * 5. I only have a non-3D PCI graphics card at the moment, and playing Thief with it is smooth and stable (at 800x600). Today I should be receiving a 3D AGP card, I'm curious how that will perform.

Excellent job at mainboard spotting! The board is indeed the Shuttle HOT-671. I flashed the latest BIOS and the board is posting now. With the FSB max being 83MHz and the multiplier, I guess I can't get the CPU set to be any faster than 415MHz?

I have a Pentium II/III board with an i440EX chipset that's stuck at the boot screen. It doesn't recognise the PIII CPUs as such. I have one PIII 500MHz, which registers as a PII MMX 333MHz, and a PIII 550MHz, with which the board doesn't post at all. I bought the board and PIII 550MHz CPU together …

The JBAT1 jumper isn't in between the PCI slots as in the manual but sits towards the edge of the board. There's actually an arrow pointing towards it (which you can't see on the picture).

Oh and yes, I had to move the caps near the power socket out of the way because the plug wouldn't fit otherwise. I'll make it pretty sometime later.

Made some progress on the keyboard. One of the jumpers that's repsonsible for wake on keyboard was corroded and not conducting. Cleaning the contacts and using a new jumper brought the keyboard back to life. I've checked all other jumpers for corrosion, but they were fine. The jumpers concerning the …

No settings are getting saved, not the date or time either The keyboard controller is not the fat one, but I also don't know which IC takes over the keyboard functions. They board is amazingly miniaturised for 1998. The battery does not get drained by a short. How do I find out which chip is the …

I have an MS6183 Pentium III board that gives me a CMOS checksum error. I replaced the CMOS battery, cleaned the contacts, reflowed solder joints, checked the BIOS chip, flashed a later revision BIOS - all to no avail, the error remains. Two more curious symptoms that might give a hint what the …

That's awesome, thanks! I didn't really that PnP cards need to have a BIOS that supports PnP. The Unisound driver sounds like it should work, and I'll try it out. The 286 will be fine with it, but the 386 machine has Win95 on, and the Unisound is a DOS driver. Do we think there's a way to get sound …

I just got a Sound Blaster 16 Pro Plug and Play (CT2950) in, but it's not being recognised in the two PCs (one a 286, the other a 386 DX40) I tried it in. The DOS/Win 3.11 install can't find it, neither Win 95 using hardware detection. The Creative diagnostic app also stops after it failed to find …