@mkarcher That's very interesting. I'll certainly start with this. The idea of trying to recap this board is really daunting to say the least.

@darry Thanks for the links. I'll take a look at those and hopefully I can get this card working.

I forgot to mention that yes, I have the DOS drivers/config utilities installed and I've tested in both Windows and booting into DOS. The results were the same no matter what.

I've tried this in two different systems. The first was a Pentium 200 with 64MR RAM running Windows 95. The second is a Pentium II 450 with 512MB RAM running Windows 98. The results were the same in both systems.

I was digging through my old parts bin and got pretty excited to realize that I had an early Ensoniq SoundScape that I had completely forgotten about. My excitement was quickly dashed when I placed it into one of my retro systems and tried the MIDI playback. https://youtu.be/3zYyx587qok The digital …

I've tried several different BIOSs at this point, with no real improvement. Regarding disabling the onboard cache, the board does not provider jumpers to disable it. The cache can only be disabled in the BIOS, but the system freezes before I'm able to enter the BIOS. As for a multimeter, I do have …

That's a great help. Thanks.

Sadly, I haven't made any more progress with this motherboard. I'll probably try to track down other BIOS revisions to try, but I'm not hopeful. I'll likely have to abandon this particular board. I'm open to other ideas if anyone has any. Thanks again to everyone.

Unfortunately, I cant even get into the BIOS config. The system locks up before I'm able to.

The K6 200 CPU gets a bit further.

I was able to successfully flash the BIOS via recovery mode, clear the CMOS, and it's still not really working. Unlike the previous BIOS that froze so hard during boot that not even the keyboard status lights would change, the keyboard status lights update when caps lock, num lock, or scroll lock …

Fantastic! I'll give it a shot tonight.

Thanks for all of the advice! My suspicion has also been that somehow the BIOS has been corrupted, but this would the first time in almost 30 years working with computers that I've seen that so I didn't want to jump to conclusions. Looking at the manual, there is indeed a BIOS recovery option. Now I …

I've tried clearing the CMOS and have a fresh battery installed ,and looking at the capacitors on the board, they visually all look ok.

I have an Intel AN430TX motherboard with the integrated Yamaha sound chip that will start to boot, get through the memory check, but freeze shortly after before the POST beep. The text on the screen is displayed perfectly until it freezes and then there's some corruption. I've tried several …

And now I've been able to verify that with the S3 Virge/DX in my PII450 Windows 98 machine using the same driver as my Windows 95 machine, I still can't see the video overlay produced by the PC-DVD card. So I'm down to one of three potential issues: the video card is faulty and the Virge/DX feature …

I took the PC-DVD card out of the Pentuim 166 system and placed it into my Pentium II 450 Windows 98 system that is using a Voodoo 3 3000 which also has a feature connector. While there were a few quirks (the Voodoo 3 is not a video card listed as being compatible with the PC-DVD), I got it working …

I have a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro in my Pentium 166 machine and I recently purchased a Creative PC-DVD hardware MPEG2 decoder card to use with it. The PC-DVD card uses the feature connector of the video card to pipe the video into the video card; the decoder card manual specifically mentions the …