Sorry, it has been a while since my last update. I have been having some issues with this thing. Long story short: The BIOS on my GA-6BXC is bricked and I either need to reprogram it our get a new motherboard.
I was trying to use the Intel PnP Utility to reassign resources for the Waverider Pro PnP card I mentioned earlier. I had done this successfully before, but this time I got an error message saying that it couldn't save my settings and another one telling me that I shouldn't use this utility on an EISA system, but to use the ICU instead....
Well, the next time I rebooted I was greeted by a recovery BIOS asking me for a boot floppy. I made a boot floppy, tried to re-flash the BIOS, and it failed. Now the machine won't even boot the floppy disk anymore. Extremely frustrating. Needless to say when I get this fixed I am never touching the Intel PnP Utility again.
tpowell.ca wrote:I also can't seem to get the board to work reliably at 133MHz FSB
I am starting to wonder about this myself. I have been through several combinations of PC133 RAM sticks and i usually get a couple of failures running memtest86+ on the second pass. If I can't get it to work on the new motherboard I will probably just stick with using a max of 112 mhz FSB.
tpowell.ca wrote:What voltage is your CPU rated at? What are you running it at?
My Ezra 866 a A350EJ0 stepping and is rated at 1.35V. I never confirmed what the board is actually supplying it come to think of it.
dr.zeissler wrote:One thing is running a generic benchmark like 3dbench 1c and the other is a real game.
3dbench1c delivers ultra smooth and lot's of different values when throtteling a PIII or PIV CPU,
lot's of games do react very different on the throtteling.
Something I found from messing with this build: You are wasting your time trying to get one of these time machine builds to perform "like a 486 DX2" or "like a Pentium MMX 200". Just find multiplier and FSB settings that work with the specific game you are trying to play. The slowdown / speedup is very smooth, but with much more modern components in general such as PCI or AGP graphics and faster bus speeds the performance characteristics of a system like this will be much different than a "real" older system.
[Compaq Presario 633 | DOS 6.22 / Win 3.1 | DX4 100 Overdrive | 28M RAM | SB16 CT2770A | SPEA Media FX (Soundscape S2000) ]
[GA-6BXC R2.0 | Win98SE | Via C3 Ezra 866 | 384M RAM | TNT2 32M | Voodoo2 8M | SB32 CT3670 | Ensoniq Soundscape Opus]