sledge wrote on 2020-01-17, 18:18:

PARKE wrote on 2020-01-17, 17:11:

My ECS P6BAP-ME has the same chipset (if I'm not mistaken) and it's close to 13400 CPU 3DMarks. (With some tweaking via WPCRSET and with "Memory Interleave Enabler 0.15" installed).

Hi there. Sorry to write on this thread. I don't know if there's an option to send direct messages... I also have that ECS p6bap-me board, and I'm having some trouble with it, could you help me? (Just need photos of the board) sorry if I'm not writing according to rules of the forum...

I used to have a DFI 693 based board that I scrapped because it was a crash happy nightmare.

Reviving this to say I finally fixed the dumb thing. *knocks on wood til knuckles bleed*

In the end, I narrowed it down to two simultaneous issues: the CPU and GPU.

Apparently, I kept buying / installing from my old supply sets of defective or semi-defective CPUs / GPUs? Today, after pulling the computer back out of storage from the past few months, I tried installing a nearly NIB SiS 315 AGP card that I used only briefly when I was 13yo. It helped me push through certain tests in 3DMark 99 MAX, but still froze on the second image quality test, and still made that same Descent 3 error. I then installed the PIII 933 again, under clocked to 700 with a 100FSB, and... that seems to be the magic combination. I've even been running that menu screen of D3 that always freezes for nearly a half hour now with no issue. Tried reinstalling the GeForce 256 again and got the same issues as before when paired with the 933.

As far as I can tell, that means I've had two defective Voodoo 5 5500s, a defective Nvidia GeForce 256 DDR, and a defective PIII 500. Something just doesn't feel right about that, like there's still some missing element here - or things are just working for now and will eventually go weird again soon. I have no clue, this computer has made everything upside down in my world 😜

So, the current specs after all that headache and hardship:
- Corsair RM850x
- Asus P3B-F
- Intel Pentium III 933 1.7v (under clocked to 700 w/ 100MHz FSB)
- 256MB Kingston KGM100x64C3 SDRAM (2x 128MB)
- SiS 315 128MB AGP 4x (running @2X)
- Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 SB0100