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Re: Pentium II Win'98SE Retro Rig.

Yesterday I've received cheap RAM Heatsinks from China which are installed roght now. They aren't needed in this configuration, but this component now looks a lot better inside case ;) http://www.imagic.pl/files/2853/Pentium%20II%20333MHz/20181013%20-%20IMG_8245.jpg http://www.imagic.pl/files/2853/ …

Re: Pentium II Win'98SE Retro Rig.

Today I've been playing around changing thermal paste in PII CPU. Dissasembling that particular CPU which I own (SL2S5) was a nightmare. I couldn't easily pry plastic case in one corner, because one pin was keeping it so tightly that I've bended some part of plastic case and broken my plastic tool …

Re: Pentium II Win'98SE Retro Rig.

@oeuvre Don't worry. Computer is in case now. Like on photo is the best way for me to test something. I have access from every side to computer components. Now it's time for the best part. Playing with IRQ and DMA. Surprisingly win98se messed up with them. Radeon is on DMA 5, SB AWE32 on DMA 10, IRQ …

Re: Pentium II Win'98SE Retro Rig.

Forgive me post under post, but too long time passed since last one. Somethings changed today. I still had problems with this motherboard. Clean installation with only Radeon 7000 and SB AWE32. After 1 hour I gave up, but later I was still thinking and suspicions goes to RAM. I was using Kingston …

Re: Pentium II Win'98SE Retro Rig.

20180120 19:57 Bath is simple soap with water... Nothing special. I wanted to get rid of dust. And btw. I'm doing this with all other dirty parts so It's not a reason for that kind of behavior with Radeon 7000 and Direct3D... After reading some post here on vogons about some problems with radeon …

Re: Pentium II Win'98SE Retro Rig.

I have problems with this small motherboard. My suspicions are for damaged AGP port. Firstly I was blaming ATI Radeon 7000. When I try to run any 3D game on Direct 3D. Game jumps out to Windows and close itself without any warnings. Under Voodoo II the same title runs normally. I've checked with …

Pentium II Win'98SE Retro Rig.

Here I want to share some information about my Retro Rig based on Pentium II 333MHz on Gigabyte GA-6EM rev 1.8 motherboard. Firstly I've build PIII 600MHz with 256MB RAM and integrated Sound Card based on ESS Solo-1. Motherboard was Biostar M6TZF. It was a lot of fun to install Win'98SE and drivers. …

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