So, I've set this LuckStar up three times now and have full function every time. No clue what was going on.

The POST card effects nothing. This last time, I installed the wrong video card, but still functioned perfectly (just way faster). I even added a network card and transferred about 16GB of games. Definitely going to call this GOOD and add it to the collection.

Over the weekend I cleaned and benched a Shuttle FB61 with Pentium 4 SL6WK (3.0/800/512), 2x1GB DDR400, and a very similar Radeon 9600.

I had to use my normal bench PSU (300W Enermax), since the 200W PSU in the Shuttle had plague™ and was broken, most likely from not being powerful enough. It's going to get a nice 350W retrofitted (needs ATX and P4 connectors).

ANYWAY, to the point: it was a similar setup to what I was messing with earlier and now that I got the 9600 in the board, I can compare the "same" video card in two similar systems with wildly different CPU clocks and memory, especially since the LuckyStar has 133Mhz SDRAM. The results are expected, but now quantified.

I had my brothers' Shuttle race my Shuttle, for funsies; mine got blown out of the water. Of course, it DID finish first, but not a fair race, as the GF4 was missing many feature tests. My Shuttle runs Athlon 64X2-3800+(2.0Ghz) 2x512MB DDR400, and GeForce 4 MX4000. I didn't get pictures of his while it was here, but it was way slicker-looking than mine, with a 2mm aluminum plate on the front.

Going to do a recap now. Not sure what, but it's going to get done, 🤣

I decided to do PCChips M861g(1.6a) because it looked like I could get it done quickly, not many caps.

I initially was just going to to the power stage, it had some puffers, but I ended up doing the whole thing. 34 on this one. Most of them tested fine, just the puffers were actually bad.

I'm about to test it soon. If it works, I'll prepare a drive for it. I recently got a pile of 40 and 80 GB Seagate 7200.7, so I've been pairing boards to drives.