Update: I have received the new Tyan Trinity s1598 and rebuilt the machine around it. Everything worked perfectly! So that's great! Now... what about this P5A? I've ordered two more socket 7 processors: Another MMX 233 & an MMX 166 If one of these two processors slots in to the Asus and it then …

Update: I have received the new Tyan Trinity s1598 and rebuilt the machine around it. Everything worked perfectly! So that's great! Now... what about this P5A? I've ordered two more socket 7 processors: Another MMX 233 & an MMX 166 If one of these two processors slots in to the Asus and it then …

the 1.06 that I had at least was a very glitchy mess. they actually made it worse from the 1.04 it seems I did have the best luck with a radeon 9000 though over other cards at my disposal I didn't actually try launching anything with the 9800. I was just doing post testing with it. Perhaps I should …

Sorry if this is too basic, but are you sure your monitor will pick up VGA from anything else? You mentioned only DVI has worked so far. If you have a multimeter then try checking voltages, see if they look good and not fluctuating under load. Ideally you could try to measure voltages on the video …

Apologies if I said something that offended you. Oh please, no, nothing of that kind. I just marvel sometimes at other people buying really specific and rare gear after minor setbacks. But maybe you got a good deal on that Tyan. Cheers! I see! It wasn’t a particularly good deal, but this is a …

I have also ordered a Tyan Trinity S1598 and a AMD K6-2 500 along with another DIMM of PC133. Perhaps this would be a better motherboard anyway? Thoughts? Since you don't have any financial restraints, why not mandate a professional engineering bureau with the issue, instead of waiting for peer …

S3 Virge/DX PCI So not an AGP voltage issue. You tried switching PSU, CPU and RAM? Doublechecked jumpers? The jumpers are easily overlooked even if you checked them multiple times (like accidentally switching the 1st and last row of jumpers around). Also test these graphics cards in a different …

S3 Virge/DX PCI So not an AGP voltage issue. You tried switching PSU, CPU and RAM? Doublechecked jumpers? The jumpers are easily overlooked even if you checked them multiple times (like accidentally switching the 1st and last row of jumpers around). Also test these graphics cards in a different …

Hi & welcome. Nothing wrong with a bit of trivia, but be aware that nothing beyond the 3rd line of you initial spec sheet would have any significance on the VGA question. - which I know after parsing through nine more lines of cryptic technese ;) I you are to use some more pixels on occasions like …

I've a bit of a strange situation here.... What I'm seeing: The system will only post with my MX440 When attempting to launch any application requiring 3d, the app will crash (driver too I believe) and then nothing will recognize that I have a 3d accelerator until I reboot With ANY other graphics …

Hi & welcome. Nothing wrong with a bit of trivia, but be aware that nothing beyond the 3rd line of you initial spec sheet would have any significance on the VGA question. - which I know after parsing through nine more lines of cryptic technese ;) I you are to use some more pixels on occasions like …

What games are you intending to play? Except for the Virge, the P233 will be a significant bottleneck. Also, unless there is something great about the 1.06 revision I don't know about, 128MB is the most RAM the ALI V chipset can cache. 128MB is more than ample for games of this period as it is. So, …

Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been working for quite awhile to get the parts together for this build... now I find myself in a bit of a quandary. I'll first lay out my parts list and I'll then lay out the decision to be made. P1 233 Hynix 128MB PC133 (x 2)(256mb) ASUS P5A Rev 1.06 SIIG …