Robin4 wrote:

Can anyone tell if its worth to upgrade from Diamond Viper V770 32 to Geforce 2 GTS or ultra?

I know these last ones are faster any way, and having a GPU instead of video processor.. But if i look at features, can a geforce 2 GTS recommended over the Viper V770 32mb AGP.. Or is the viper more richer on features?
I think an Geforce 256 DDR wouldnt work. because those are much harder to find..

Geforce 2 GTS has table fog emulation and 8bit palleted textures support I believe

It's also blurry and has problems with many early AGP implementations. 😀

leileilol wrote:

It's also blurry and has problems with many early AGP implementations. 😀

I have lived the former and it was quite notorious at 120 hz. It will happen unless you have a Canopus spectra 8400/8800, which have a d-sub daughterboard for better signal quality.

Some months ago I got to work a GTS on a mid-1998 Soyo 6ba Slot1 board by taping the last two pins from each side off the card's agp connector(from left to right, right to left). The card just wouldn't boot into windows after installing the detonators, but after doing this I could and Quake 3 was running without issues.

leileilol wrote:

It's also blurry and has problems with many early AGP implementations. 😀

Are all of those geforce 2 cards have been affected? (by these AGP implementations problems) ( i dont know whats wrong with it)( i heard about some voltages)
Because i thinking about to buying an asus geforce 2 GTS for cheap.. But it need to have sense, otherwise i could better look to other alternatives.

Hey, I'm actually using an Abit BE6 motherboard for my Win95 machine. you don't happen to have the motherboard drivers or a link to the latest BIOS do you? I did find one page that had a supposed updated BIOS but it comes with absolutely no readme file or instructions and i'm a little dubious to its authenticity.

so far I haven't had any issues and I have 1 ISA and all but 1 PCI slot used up. I'm also not using the ATA66 but SCSI instead but so far it seems pretty benign unless....

I do have an issue with it as in i had a 5 1/4 and a 3 1/3 floppy drive hooked up but if I have a ZIP drive connected the B: drive will not show up. dont think that would be connected to the ata66 issue though.

soviet conscript wrote:

Hey, I'm actually using an Abit BE6 motherboard for my Win95 machine. you don't happen to have the motherboard drivers or a link to the latest BIOS do you? I did find one page that had a supposed updated BIOS but it comes with absolutely no readme file or instructions and i'm a little dubious to its authenticity.

so far I haven't had any issues and I have 1 ISA and all but 1 PCI slot used up. I'm also not using the ATA66 but SCSI instead but so far it seems pretty benign unless....

I do have an issue with it as in i had a 5 1/4 and a 3 1/3 floppy drive hooked up but if I have a ZIP drive connected the B: drive will not show up. dont think that would be connected to the ata66 issue though.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000620125314/htt … nload/index.htm

http://www.filewatcher.com/m/be6th.exe.176576-0.html

This was the latest bios possible.. be6th.exe

This is the original manual: ftp://78.46.141.148/mirrors/www.elhvb.com_mob … ls/be6/be6e.pdf (english)

I guess these are the high point HP366 controller drivers ( i think they where release with firmware upgrade for this controller)
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/366drv126.zip.86099-0.html (version 1.26 (try on you own risk)

And this is version 1.28 of the HPT366 controller:
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/366v128.zip.121323-0.html
Maybe this is usefull too:
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/HPT366_9xme.exe.37685-0.html

Hardware doctor utility for abit BE6:
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/be6.exe.2245779-0.html

Some information on dutch website:
http://nl.hardware.info/reviews/224/2/abit-be … t-specificaties

More info:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040820113516/htt … 6&fMTYPE=Slot+1

There was also an HighPoint XStore Pro Utility thats used for the hpt366 controller

Now you are missing: the original chipset drivers, and maybe the AGP GART driver.

awsome, thanks for the links. I still have no 5 1/4 floppy showing up but at least I have all but one conflict taken care of now in the device manager which is the USB controller. I installed the USBsuppliment but its still just a ? in device manager.

also cant seem to do the BIOS update. I run the flasher and it asks me for the name of the file to flash....I have no clue.

soviet conscript wrote:

Also cant seem to do the BIOS update. I run the flasher and it asks me for the name of the file to flash....I have no clue.

Try Uniflash.I've had lots of success with it than any other flasher.
But by any chance,did you try writing this into the DOS prompt: awdflash BE6_TH.bin /py /sn /cc /cp /cd /f /r

I did not, I'll try that tomorrow, thanks.