As the AX6C is throwing a cmos checksum error fit, I had to swap it for an IWILL DS133-R. Hi, I saw your PM, but I don't have enough forum posts to reply yet. I have the AX6C BIOS v1.04, but I'm not sure if it's the latest one. Send me a PM with an email address, and I'll upload it to sprend.com. …

Low ESR capacitors have a lower resistance to charging and discharging, meaning much better performance for high frequency PC power supply circuits. Of course, this doesn't account for the fact that badly made LOW ESR capacitors will overheat and fail quickly. On a motherboard (or graphics card), …

hi guys thanks for the feedback. well i guess im out of luck the motherboard is actually SoYo branded and the caps are a mess. but look how small and thin the low esr caps i bought , compared to the original ones. i guess i will have to continue searching on another store non low esr? the brand on …

Hello everyone, Can the Mobo caps or/and the PSU be the culprit of the hang? Yes. My advice is to never use a "cheap early 2000's PSU" (at least not without making sure it's ok first). A bad PSU (usually with broken/vented low quality caps) can cause good quality caps on the motherboard to bulge ( …

Maybe this could be helpful (same motherboard): FIC PA-2013 Ver 2.1 and Voodoo3 3000 AGP Voodoo3 with S-Video port on VIA MVP3 system ”FIC PA2013 (MVP3 chipset). Would not work with either of the 3000 cards. The 2000 AGP seemed to work ok.”

Try it on a newer motherboard (slot-1, slot-A, socket 370 or similar. Edit: Make sure the board you try is compatible with 3.3v AGP, otherwise you could fry the motherboard or graphics card. Pentium 4 boards will usually NOT work. The HP Envy you mentioned is way too new, and it has PCI Express, not …

Keep in mind everything works ..up until I install the graphics drivers for the card .. reboot and as soon as I pass the login dcreen ..it goes blank and the monitor goes to sleep. I had the same problem with a 6600 (non GT), on a Aopen AX6C motherboard (Intel 820 chipset). Didn't try AGP 2X, but I …

It could well be this Asus notherboard will never work with SB Live & pure DOS.. Yeah, it seems like it won't. What settings for PCIPORT and PCIIRQ did you end up using? They were different in the two ini-files above, and they need to match the real hardware address and IRQ. You could disable COM, …

You could go though all the hardware resources in Sisoft Sandra. I's easier/faster than using the device manager.

Check the settings in Windows Device manager as well (both for emulation and the actual card). I'm not sure if Windows uses the settings in ctsyn.ini. These should match the hardware resources for the SB Live! in Windows: PCIPort=1000 PCIIRQ=11 Also make sure the IRQ/DMAs for DOS emulation aren't …

Check the IRQ/DMA-settings in Windows 98se, and make sure there's no conflict between the emulation settings in DOS, and the "real" IRQ of the soundcard (or DMA of other hardware). Use the settings from the "SB16 emulation" driver in Windows. It has always worked for me. The DOS settings are stored …

ASUS made 3.4v as a default value for overclocking headroom. Which is blatantly stated in the manual. Are we looking at the same manual? Because it states the opposite. You should leave it at 3.40V unless processor overclocking requires a higher voltage (which would be 3.60V then). It's a bit …

Not sure if this is the right thread, but I recorded a few samples of the OPL-emulation on Creative AudioPCI 128, aka Soundblaster 16 PCI or Vibra 128. It's so bad, it's funny. But the OPL sound is still better than the PCM/Soundblaster compatibility (most games crash or distort the sound). https:// …

Hehe, the first video brings back memories. I installed a S3 Virge DX (?) 4MB in my Pentium 200MHz MMX back in 1997. Moto Racer worked for about 20 seconds into the race (at 10 fps), and then the computer froze. I tried for several days to get it working, and then I bought a Voodoo instead...

Thanks for the reply. You're probably right. I just find it strange that the 3.3v setting is there, if it's not needed. The voltage reading is higher compared to other motherboards I have (Abit BH6, Aopen AX6C, Fujitsu Siemens D1215, Abit IS7-E and E2 etc).

Is there any downside to changing the VIO jumper from the default 3.4v to 3.3v? I haven't thought about it before, but noticed it today in the BIOS (HW monitor shows +3.44v). I measured the +3.3v from the PSU (3.32v) before finding out about the jumper. Did Asus set it to 3.4v to improve …