First post, by zPacKRat
3+ weeks in and I've swapped out my PA-2013 v2.0 for an Abit BE6-II v2 and it's like 20 years ago all over. I figured that it would be fun to tinker with the FIC board for a while, tune it, get it stable, relive the first PC I built, etc. Well under 98se that has not happened, multiple clean installations, 4in1 drivers, Nvidia drivers and what works for an hour one time freezes the next. I replaced all the capacitors on it, cleaned it up and removed any traces of oxidation/corrosion with IPA and a toothbrush and at the end of the day it's marginally better, but frustrating enough that it's being put away with the consideration of putting it on ebay because I'm not sure I want to relive this experience again, 🤣.
Build consisted of:
1. PA-2013
2. K6-3+ 450
3. multiple sticks of PC100, 133 of different sizes
4. CreativeLabs TNT and TNT2 Pro
5. ISA AWE64
I could swear that this was a stable platform at one time, maybe it wasn't and I'm just trying to create a positive memory, maybe I'm spoiled by how well thing work now. But boy oh boy that Abit board is a gem with a Piii 700 and 384MB or ram along with the AWE64 and TNT2 I'm happy for now, the only thing I want now is a pair of VooDoo II's. I wish I could remember what the difference was when I did this similar upgrade originally (BH-6 and Celly 300A)