Brill - thanks for the replies and suggestions, plenty of stuff to consider - much appreciated.

...Went into the registry and amended the video card string to 1024x768 and the game is now running ok.... Can you point me in the direction of the video card string in the registry? I may be able to use your solution to put an end to my own FreeSpace 2 woes ... Of course, in the registry look in: …

One of the things that I've always like about retro PC's is the sound and music capabilities. I've recently acquired (at long last!) an Mt-32 (old) unit which sounds amazing on old DOS games. I just can't believe how good this sounds even today never mind back in the day. Anyway with that and MPU- …

Managed to fix this myself: Deselected D3D and hi-res, 32-bit and oddly 3dfx glide was then detected but only at 640x480. Went into the registry and amended the video card string to 1024x768 and the game is now running ok. Odd why it failed to detect the card correctly in the first place but at …

Hi, I'm trying to get this game running on my Voodoo3 3000 and it fails to detect the card. The game installs ok but on launching the game it proceeds to the setup window and when I choose to detect the renderer the screen shows the 3dfx logo animation and then returns to the desktop with the game …

Hi, is there any partition software available that works with Win98 ? I have a demo version of Partition Magic 8.0 but being only demonstration it doesn't allow any partitions to be resized. Thanks.

Hi, all the BIOS are universal for all the P6DLx range of boards, but all the BIOS's do contain code that reference the SCSI and have the modules present. I'm not sure how it determines if SCSI is present but it must check for something on post, but doesn't load the SCSI bios as its not detecting …

Hi, yes - nothing in that particular slot. I also tried enabling all the options in the BIOS and full CMOS reset, with battery removed. Just seems very odd that everything is working apart from this one thing on the board. All other connectors, slots, pins are working ok. And there must be some sort …

Just to update this thread, I got hold of a new BIOS chip and programmed it to v1.35a and installed it in the board successfully. All 512Mb detected and working and both CPU's identified ok. However, the SCSI issue still plagues me. No SCSI BIOS is detected on POST and its not listed in the PCI …

Ok, with no success in BIOS flashing I pulled the BIOS chip from the board and attempted to burn the BIOS directly with an EEPROM programmer. Chip can be read OK but when attempting to write it fails with the following: ************************************************************** APP Version : 11. …

Thanks for the reply, that information was really useful. I was hoping the DLSC221 was an incorrect BIOS as that does show as 1.33 on POST, but like you say the BIOS versioning seems all over the place. I'm assuming that 1.35a was the last BIOS for this board.

Thanks very much for all the replies, I wasn't aware the dls8101.rom was interim for the P6DLS as the Supermicro download archive doesn't list the BIOS's for each respective board. However, on checking the label on my BIOS chip it states DLSC221 which incidentally is listed in that same archive. I …

I wonder if anyone can help with the following. I recently acquired a P6DLS motherboard but have a few issues with it. The board currently has BIOS version 1.33 installed dated 07/15/95 (according to the config screen). The latest BIOS version 1.35a is dated 01/15/99. The processor I am using is …