Triple boot Win95\NT4\Puppy Linux machine would be my vote.

You could've at least put "AOpen AX6B" in the title... 😜

Anyway, it's a good board, it's a BX, it has 3 ISA slots, plus CPU settings on the BIOS... so whatever you do, keep it!

Suggestions:
1) Build a period 1998 machine (P2 400/450 --or if your Celeron is a 300A, run it at 450--, V2 SLI, SBLive!/MX200 + your fav ISA soundcards)

2) Max it out with a slot 1 Coppermine (if the BIOS supports it or if you could update the BIOS) or find out if it could run Tualatin (if you're interested) -- and use MX300/Vortex2 instead, and put in a GeForce3/4

3) Or, find an Ezra-T VIA C3 + matching slotket for simulating 486/386/286 speed that Gerwin talked about in the "SetMul" thread. Especially useful when combined with an intelligent MPU-401 compatible interface (Roland, MusicQuest, Voyetra etc) for playing older games with an MT-32. I mean it's got three ISA slots! You can still fill the other two with a GUS and a SBpro-compatible.

archsan wrote:

You could've at least put "AOpen AX6B" in the title... 😜

Done... 😁

BX motherboards are great for the late dos AND Win9x era.
ISA soundcard for dos games. AGP and PCI gives you a nice 9x setup
Plus you own a legend that is the BX chipset

chinny22 wrote:

BX motherboards are great for the late dos AND Win9x era.
ISA soundcard for dos games. AGP and PCI gives you a nice 9x setup
Plus you own a legend that is the BX chipset

yes...+1

Yea can't go wrong with a BX440 system 😀

I always liked BX440 systems for Win98 but now because I discovered that I can just run Win98SE on my newer 845 and 865PE and 875P chipset boards with faster hardware, I now think of 440BX boards more well suited to a solid Win95 setup (and maybe late DOS as well, as chinny22 mentions). Just my 2 cents.

retrofanatic wrote:

on my newer 845 and 865PE and 875P chipset boards with faster hardware, I now think of 440BX boards more well suited to a solid Win95 setup (and maybe late DOS as well, as chinny22 mentions). Just my 2 cents.

That's a very fair comment!

I also believe that these Pentium 4 platforms don't get much retro love at the moment but they are a joy to work with. I would say a 865 chipset system is as the easiest to go with.

Especially comparing to the pain of building a fast Tualatin system, just go with a 1.4, 1.6 or 1.8 GHz P4.

Go with a faster CPU and you have an awesome machine for early XP games.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Yea can't go wrong with a BX440 system 😀

True. The reason i bought it, was your description of the board you build the DOS/95 rig of.
I mean. The 3 part YouTube video. I might do that projekt, just baser on 98 only, and voodoo1 as well as in you'r project.

That's cool 😀

I just picked up basically the same setup, AOpen AX6BC with a Slot 1 P3-500, it's going to replace a K6-2 550 that's running horribly slow.

Oh...
Now I think there is a problem with this board.
The board won't spin any cpu-fan at all.
Does anyone know anything about this type of error?

Start with connecting some other fan to CPUFAN connector, to exclude possible failure of processor fan.

Yes. Did that, no power on eighter cpu-fan or case-fan connectors.
I have tried both a P4 cooler, and a case fan on both connectors.
I have resat the bios a couple of times.
Could it possibly be an bios-software glitch?

Update:
This is the strangest of thing, that is going on with my board.
I finally took it out of the case, then powering it up using only cpu, gfx, mem and keyboard.
The fan started to spin again. 😕 Now.
If I for some reason or another, just cut the power without any proper power-down.
Then the fan will get stuck/not spinning/not powering up (casefan connector too)
If on the other hand, i do a shutdown as normal, the fan will start spinning on the next power on.
If the fan stops spinning, i need to disconnect the main-power-cord (atx-plug) on the motherboard.
And then pushing the power button. Then reconnecting the power-cord and do a normal boot.

Does anyone know if this is a "bug" from a-open's side. Or should I reflash my bios?
Or is it just a thing that occour with old hardware over time?

If the board is stable... just use a 3-pin to 4pin molex connector and ignore it.
Thats the safest thing to do.

AlphaWing wrote:

If the board is stable... just use a 3-pin to 4pin molex connector and ignore it.
Thats the safest thing to do.

That could be an solution. Yes. I just wan't to see if there would be any form of solution to this issue. 😉

It sounds like some sort of power management issue.
Board thinks its in suspend mode when it isn't.
Try disabling all power management options in the bios.

AlphaWing wrote:

It sounds like some sort of power management issue.
Board thinks its in suspend mode when it isn't.
Try disabling all power management options in the bios.

Thanks for the tip, that would be the possible source of the issue.
Never the less, I feel that it is just a question of me getting to know this board. 🤣

Maybe the board has automatic fan control and as long as the cpu is not hot enough it doesn't start.