I was thinking about that too. But there are no obvious defects, no bloated or leaking caps .

Hi Repo Man, That is good question indeed. Because my adventures with this board started already many months ago, if not several years. Every once in a while I tried something different, and I cannot really say that I was using the same psu all over again, but chances are I did. But the one I'm …

Hi Vogons, I have a a really strange problem with the DFI K6xv3+ mainboard. First of all I salvaged it decades ago from a pc of my father's where it used to run with a K6-2 450 for several years reliably. Time went by and some while ago I wanted to see if it still worked. After having installed …

I just tried this, the values in the ctmix.cfg now persist, however the master volume will still be set to zero by itself. If I now run mixerset /MA:255;0 it says Master volume Left:255 Right:255 then I run it without any argument and it shows master volume zero. What the heck. I am running Mixerset …

Hi there Vogons, I have an interesting, yet annoying problem here with my AWE64. It always mutes itself in MS-DOS after having run any game. Situation is as follows: I boot into MS-DOS running the Mixerset utility in the autoexec.bat to set volume levels at maximum. Then I start a game, no matter if …

Hey Parke, thanks for your reply! As far as I can see it has not been modded. Production date is week 47 of 1999. So you think nothing will be damaged if I give Coppermine a try with the default jumper settings? Right now I have it up and running with a CeleronA 500 MHz, no problems there.

Oh nice, thank you Parke! I was expecting such info underneath that "Celeron [...] might be dangerous [...]"-sticker as seen in Cosmic's original post, so I scrubbed it off but there was just nothing. But now I finally have it, thanks to you. Strange that there is no Coppermine support, the ebay …

Hi Cosmic, thank you for your answer. The problem with the Vid jumpers is that there's no silk screen to it explaining their setting, basically there is these 5 jumpers Vid0 - Vid4 and that's it. Only known jumper is the JFSB to the left that sets bus speed to either auto or 100 MHz.

Hello Vogons, I got this very same Slotket lately, but I didn't dare using it as of yet. I don't know how to handle these Vid Jumper block on the right side of the card. And I also don't see, whether it is also to be used for Coppermine CPUs or solely for Mendocino Celerons. What would you suggest, …

Hey chinny, It's great you got it working, no need for a crt now anymore 😀 I'm glad I could help!

Cheers Spark, nice approach there. Not yet perfect but at least it runs at all though. The missing audio seems to be a downer but maybe in the future you can find another sound card which will work. Good point with the mga environment variable, I forgot to mention that again, however as it is being …

Hey Spark, sadly not, that was about it, seems like I am lucky enough that my Samsung monitor accepts these settings. Maybe you could try using different other monitor profiles from the mgamon list and see if any of them works for you. And I'm not sure if vbetsr and vbesetup are really necessary, …

Yeah, sound is important of course. I have various cards at hand, in this case I use an old Terratec BASE-1 for ISA bus, works perfectly fine in DOS. The two machines I tested with were Pentium MMX @ VIA VP and AMD K7 @ Irongate, both working great. But the most important component seems to be the …

Hey Doctor Z, you were right, it was not the BIOS that did the trick. After you wrote you might have tried that already I wanted to verify my findings and tested Screamer Rally on another machine, and there the 85Hz black screen reappeared. So I thought twice and realized that it might have been …

Hope it'll work for you!

Doc, which card do you use? I was a bit scared because I didn't know how the flash tool worked exactly and whether I could choose a correct BIOS file and if it would create a backup of the old version. But everything worked fine. You have to power cycle your machine after flashing.

I'm not sure what the RR means really. It's not that I had to choose between the two, because I just ran the updbios.bat script file and thus the flashing went without my intervention whatsoever. I believe the "normal" 1.8 was flashed there because MGAMON.EXE just shows version 1.8 now. As to which …

Hey guys, I also struggled with that illegal display mode in Screamer Rally on my Mystique 220 (1164SG). That was until I downloaded this archive here http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1597&menustate=0 I gave that BIOS updater in there a try and installed Version 1.8. Before that I had 1.5 …