First post, by jabz11
So I managed to kill the Tekram P5M4-M+ Socket 7 (using K62-500) by attempting to roll back an older version (saved Award Bios 1.03i2) since I didn't have any issues with it, until I upgraded to v1.06.
Now the board doesn't boot, and beeps incessantly.
I guess I will use components from what I have instead of buying. I accumulated some of these back in the day when working as a PC repair technician. Never got around to selling them.
However I need some advice on what you think is the best all rounder Retro build. Looking Dos/Windows 98 SE, ability to play games from 1980-2001 (might need to use Dosbox for the speed sensitive ones)
There are a couple of things that can't change and will restrict my choices so I'll advise on that first
I have a mATX Desktop Case with 300W power supply, this was brand new, so I restricts me to mATX boards.
Here are the 2 mainboards I have that are mATX:
Micro Star MS-6126 Slot 1 Intel 440EX
Gigabyte GA-6EM Slot 1 Intel 440EX
Here are the CPU's I have:
Intel SL2QG - Celeron 266MHz (Slot1)
Intel SL2Y2 - Celeron 300MHz (Slot1)
Intel SL6C7 - Celeron 1.3GHz (Socket 370)
Intel SL4E6 - Celeron 700MHz (Socket 370)
Intel SL4PB - Celeron 700MHz (Socket 370)
Intel SL68C - Celeron 1.7GHz
Intel SL2QH - Pentium II 333MHz
Intel SL45Y - Pentium III 700MHz (on a PGA370 slocket)
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (no suitable mainboard)
Accessories for Slot 1 and Socket 370
Gigabyte GA-6R7+ Slocket (PGA370)
Upgradeware 370GU FC-PGA2 to FC-PGA Converter for Tualatin Core CPUs
Video cards:
Nvidia Chipset Unidentifiable (AGP) has tiny fan cooler like Voodoo banshee (Front of card printed on PCB is, Waimea 316903700001 R01, Nvidia Copyright, and sticker with bardcode 571B1001536, rear of card has sticker with 3892B019, and UL sticker)
Nvidia VANTASD A4-M64 - Riva TVT2 Vanta? (AGP)
MSI MS-8829 Nvidia GeForce 2 MX200 (AGP)
Prolink Riva TNT2 M64 (AGP)
Asus PCI-V3800/16M TV - Riva TNT2 (PCI)
3dfx Voodoo2 (PCI)
Orchid Righteous 3dfx Voodoo (PCI)
3dfx Voodoo Banshee (AGP)
ATI Radeon 9250 (AGP)
Matrox Millennium (PCI)
S3 Savage S4 (AGP)
Sounds Cards:
Labway A151-A00 - YMF719E-S Yamaha 16bit (ISA)
APAC 8011S-60 6 channel sound card (PCI)
2x Sound Blaster AWE64 - CT4520 (ISA)
Sound Blaster AWE64 - CT4500 (ISA)
Sound Blaster PCI-128 - CT4810 (PCI)
thanks,