If you want to use this system for XP, have a look into the different flavours of eXperience XP (Micro, Tiny, Full).
ASRock 98
Win98SE Desktop
ASRock
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz
1 x 512MB 667 MHz DDR2
Soundblaster SB0100 + Altec Lansing ADA885
ATi Radeon X800XT 256MB GDDR3
1 x SATA 120GB HDD
1 x SATA DVD-RW
wrote:wrote:The last chip to support S3D was Trio3D/2X so, no.
Have anyone tested this beside Putas? He said that the S3D compatibility was broken.
That wasn't my point. OK, to rephrase that: The last chip with any chance to run S3D games on was Trio3D/2X so a UniChrome definitely wouldn't support S3D.
wrote:The HD is SATA so I dunno about the dropping to PIO thing.
If XP is using an AHCI driver (native SATA) than the problem can't happen. If the BIOS is set to legacy mode and XP uses IDE drivers then it can, I witnessed this myself. (Of course PIO mode and SATA doesn't make sense, but not everything Microsoft does makes sense.)
This was just an idea, and you can check for this problem very quickly.
I got the idea because you said the machine became slower at some point, and that would be typical of this problem (and it won't disappear by itself).
Details here: http://winhlp.com/node/10
