Hello, sorry for the necropost. I'm testing the whole batch of s3 cards I have and I noticed that one of my virge dx has the bug, during the post the screen has an empty parts I also noticed it has lower image quality in windows, I took some pictures, like a very noticeable banding , funny enough it …

Thank you both, I just ordered them :) Another quick question, since I have different virge cards, is there a program to see the speed of core and memory and eventually overclock them? I can use ms-dos or win98. I found my self, maybe it can be useful for future reference: to overclock memory and …

Thank you for the advice, they are even cheaper... will they work fine in your opinion?

Hello, I have some s3 cards with empty memory sockets, I tried to look for the chips on ebay but they are quite expensive, like €15 for a single chip, so I tried to look on aliexpress, and I found a stock of 10 pieces of chips for just €14, but i'm not sure if they can be compatible, here is the …

So here I am, the ram is definitely dead, now the problem is about the mb... I did some other test with the working pc and the beep errors coming from aopen mb are for not connected VGA card, I tried different vga that are working on the others pc. Also I received a k6-2 processor but it seems that …

thank you both for your answers, you are right, mine is an asus p5a. Just an update, I tried to start from scratch, once I have been able to get many short beep when I tried to start the pc. I suppose it was complaining for the lack of video card, maybe I will be able to get it back to life, …

Hello everybody! Getting old made me become a fan of the the nineties, so I went to my garage and I found 3 old pc (an asus p5a with a k6 300 mhz) that somewhat works, a intel labelled vx mb (damn I hated VX at the time, it was bad in both simm and sd ram too) with a p166 that works like a charm ( …