Out of curiosity, how do you store all your computers? I have 4 connected to a KVM, so single key/mouse/monitor, and two more with their own CRT monitors. The rest have to be either set up to be used, or are laptops.

Well, have some laptops but the computers are set when were to be used. Have all kinds of CRT but now, mainly because of space and heat, i'm using a LCD monitor. Have a kvm-like switch for monitor only but because doesn't pass the DDC information to the pc, is stored.

The problem (or maybe my problem only) is that i don't make computers to represent generations, don't have a clear parameter. Some of my builds are a little bit useless but unusual, and some are very useful but standard.

weldum wrote:

RAM: 64MB EDO? (don't know how to differenciate in between EDO and FPM)

Just look at the chips. If the last two digits before the speed are 00 (eg. xxx400-70), then it's fast-page. Otherwise it's EDO.

M558... that brings back memories. Probably the most obscure chipset even PC Chips ever used. I remember it not being able to run Linux (at least, not the Knoppix LiveCD I used around 2005-ish). It looked like it was BIOS/IRQ related, and certainly IRQs were a mess on that thing, which might be why the USB cards aren't working. Then again, running WinME on obscure hardware is pretty masochistic at the best of times. Maybe you'd have more luck with Win98SE.

dionb wrote:

M558... that brings back memories. Probably the most obscure chipset even PC Chips ever used. I remember it not being able to run Linux (at least, not the Knoppix LiveCD I used around 2005-ish). It looked like it was BIOS/IRQ related, and certainly IRQs were a mess on that thing, which might be why the USB cards aren't working. Then again, running WinME on obscure hardware is pretty masochistic at the best of times. Maybe you'd have more luck with Win98SE.

Maybe you're right about being masochistic 🤣
The only reason it has WinME is because the integrated uSB drivers and LAN drivers, if I want LAN right out of the box in 98se have to put a Realtek 8029as that's a little bit fiddly and sometimes doesn't work right.

In reality the problems experienced with usb are nothing new, these two cards (ALI and NEC) were never working properly in Win98se or ME. start working well but after installing anything USB it starts to fail, the devices aren't detected, aren't installed or even get bluescreeens all over the place.
that happened in this machine, in p3 machines, in k6-2 machines, in almost every machine i've tried them with both 98se (with native usb drivers 3.3) and with ME, but in 2000/XP these cards works perfect, so no broken cards but more of a compatibility issue.

derSammler wrote:

weldum wrote:

RAM: 64MB EDO? (don't know how to differenciate in between EDO and FPM)

Just look at the chips. If the last two digits before the speed are 00 (eg. xxx400-70), then it's fast-page. Otherwise it's EDO.

The chips used are these:

Sticks 1 and 2: 9732 P USA MT4C4M4E8DJ -6
Stick 3: TI -60 TMS417409ADJ VE 79AOTE P
Stick 4: LGS GM71C17403CJ6 9734 KOREA

After some searching it turns out these are EDO and, -60 is good for EDO?

These sticks are 8 chips per stick, have another pair of sticks that are 16MB each but these are 8 chips double sided, and in some boards doesn't worked well, don't know why, also these are EDO because it says on the sticker (EDO Compaq)

As it turns out almost all of my SIMM72 memory sticks are EDO, with -60 or -70, my only 4MB stick is FPM (8 chips SS) and have 4 8MB sticks that are FPM (16 chips DS), all of the other 8MB sticks are EDO

EDIT: The processor now runs at 225 MHz, due to the FSB being 75MHz, the boost is not very noticeable, but still worth, so there are new benchs:

Phil's Dos Benchmarks:
3DBench 1.0: 90.9 FPS
3DBench 1.0C: 89.3 FPS
Chris's 3DBench: 153.5 - 92.1 FPS
Chris's 3DBench 640x480: 37.1 - 22.3 FPS
PCPlayer Benchmark: 39.8 FPS
PCPlayer Benchmark 640x480: 12.9 FPS
Doom Min: 364 realtics (205 FPS)
Doom Max: 1383 realtics (54 FPS)
Quake: 34.2 FPS
Quake 360x480: 13 FPS
SI 8.0: 763.9
Landmark: 180MHz AT 384 MHz FPU (1805.49 MHz CPU - 3845.91 MHz FPU - 7992.20 chr/ms)
TOPBENCH: 287
Speedsys: CPU 167.93
Memory bandwidth: 90.53 MB/s
L1: 395.79 MB/s
L2: 154.96 MB/s
Throughput: 68.64 MB/s

Final Reality Software: 0.83 (1.46 2D - 0.40 3D - 1.16 Bus)
PerformanceTest 5.0: 8.1 PassMark
PerformanceTest 6.0: 9.0 PassMark

There are no game benchmarks because don't know how to make it and also because this rig lacks 3d acceleration.