VIA apollo pro 133 chipset
what is reputable mean? download 4.43 4in1 drivers from VIA https://d34vhvz8ul1ifj.cloudfront.net/Driver/ … A_4in1_443v.zip
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Thanks Warlord

by reputable I mean I normally download from the manufacturers site only as I worry about what malware I many download from some sites

http://web.archive.org/web/20080503181908/htt … /Advance10t.htm

The QDI Advance 10T is a very good Tualatin motherboard. It's fast, reliable and uses quality capacitors (Rubycon). It's actually the motherboard that resides under the bonnet of my overclocked 1.4 Tualatin-S daily driver, XP runs great. As Warlord pointed out, you should pick the 4-in-1 4.43v as they are they are the ones that provide the fastest performance for your system. Although remember that overclocking via BIOS is very limited on this motherboard, so if you want to do it, you need to do it via software and pick the Cypress W311 as a PLL, since it seems to be the most compatible with that motherboard.

If you like to fiddle with your system to make it as fast as possible, you can also "hack" the chipset with a program called WPCREDIT in order to access the memory registers directly and enable 4-Way interleave in order to let your RAM run at 2-2-2-5 speed. With an A10T, a Tualatin-S, a SATA controller card hooked to an SSD or a 10.000RPM HDD, you get a very fast Windows 98 and XP machine. I'm posting this reply from my very Tualatin PC, which I'm happily using as my main system since two years... 😉

looking4awayout wrote:

The QDI Advance 10T is a very good Tualatin motherboard. It's fast, reliable and uses quality capacitors (Rubycon). It's actually the motherboard that resides under the bonnet of my overclocked 1.4 Tualatin-S daily driver, XP runs great. As Warlord pointed out, you should pick the 4-in-1 4.43v as they are they are the ones that provide the fastest performance for your system. Although remember that overclocking via BIOS is very limited on this motherboard, so if you want to do it, you need to do it via software and pick the Cypress W311 as a PLL, since it seems to be the most compatible with that motherboard.

If you like to fiddle with your system to make it as fast as possible, you can also "hack" the chipset with a program called WPCREDIT in order to access the memory registers directly and enable 4-Way interleave in order to let your RAM run at 2-2-2-5 speed. With an A10T, a Tualatin-S, a SATA controller card hooked to an SSD or a 10.000RPM HDD, you get a very fast Windows 98 and XP machine. I'm posting this reply from my very Tualatin PC, which I'm happily using as my main system since two years... 😉

Hey thanks for the info - and thanks to the advice here i should find the drivers I need. I think some of the capacitors looked rather iffy but will check them out properly under magnification at the workshop tomorrow. I picked this PC up cheap today, 8 euros at the flea market so probably a good buy, even though I thought it was a socket 7 😊

Rich

For the ROM socket on the NIC, it was for a PXE bootrom (wasn't exactly PXE but rather an ancestor of PXE so to speak, I don't specifically recall what it was named), it's not very useful that is, unless you wanna slap an XT-IDE BIOS (to bypass for exemple a BIOS hdd size limit), you could put it on a EEPROM then place the EEPROM onto the NIC's ROM socket...

So yeah.

The ISA sound card is always a plus if you want to run DOS games, it's not necessary but it is way better than most PCI Sound card's shitty OPL emulation (I'm looking at YOU Soundblaster 128 PCI!), some PCI soundcards have very good OPL emulation but they can be very iffy with DOS.