First post, by CaelThunderwing
so a close friend of mine has wanted me to build a older system, w/ what spare parts i still have after kinda picking this one local place in town that had various older hardware apart.
i had just swapped in a Geforce 2 MX200 that i picked up there to replace what i had before (Riva TNT2), the motherboard is a Chaintech CT-6AJA4 w/ a Pentium III 733MHz CPU. with 384 Mb ram (i only had 3x 128 sticks. what few 256Mb sticks i have are in use in other machines.) it's using a MicroSD to IDE Adapter (but i have tested w/ a mechanical drive.. No change.)and the strangest part.. ? boot times have gone from taking about a min to go from power on to 98 Desktop. to almost 2nhalf mins. Swapping back to the TNT2, begets the original boot time.
I do have some newer cards (FX5200 & FX5600, but these are overkill for what my friend's got in mind, plus the drivers that support those cards have their issues. ) so not like i can test if its just the geforce 2 card. Any potential idea whats up?