Reply 20 of 28, by yawetaG
Yamaha utility:
System Settings box, finally showing proper RAM in Windows:
wrote:Very nice little system! I do not like SiS chipsets but i do like it on my Asus sp97-v and the board in your system is made by Asus also and shouldn't be that different.
Try cleaning all the contacts first, just disassemble the whole thing and clean every single connection. It's old so it could suffer from some bad/dirty connections on the ram?
Yeah, I might do that if I keep having intermittent issues. Alcohol is probably best, right?
Also, did you clean the lens on the cdrom drive? It is very easy to acces it on these slims, a q-tip with some alcohol does the trick in most cases.
I will try that, and also check the flat wire connecting the lens to the rest of the drive. When inserting a CD it's very easy to press down on the cable on the bottom of the drive door.
Enjoy it!
Btw, i would disable the onboard sis graphics and use a pci instead.
wrote:Windows not shutting down is a common problem with win9x. It can be driver related (i forgot the exact reasons) but there are several fixes when you search Google.
It can also be a simple bios setting about power management.
I suspect the SiS integrated video or its driver doesn't play nicely with the power management features, as the video-related problem occurred right at the time the Windows 98 power management setting were set to sleep the monitor. It looked like this:
I already disabled most of the power management in the BIOS, and will disable the rest of it soonish.
The video is nothing to write home about. Besides buggy video modes, any animations in Windows are rendered very slowly, while anything requiring an immediate change works fine. The darkening of the screen when selecting the Windows shutdown option in the Start menu takes 1 or 2 seconds to complete and looks like a tidal wave moving over the screen 🤣 Then once the dialog box is displayed it looks like the refresh rate of the background image becomes unstable. The system has DirectX 5 installed:
I don't want to know how DirectX games run, I just don't want to know... (I guess they'll crash) 😵
Any recommended video cards, besides a Voodoo? Edit: Started a thread for the VGA card.