The 40gb drive continued to be troublesome. I attempted to partition it with a Gparted live CD, which was slow, and which resulted in a partition that Windows didn't like. Tried again with FDISK. This time the disk formatted OK, albeit with Scandisk reporting issues. I can't remember the exact …

First issue I had was getting it to recognise the 40gb Maxtor drive without using the Cap Limit jumper. I installed Windows on a smaller Seagate drive and then updated the bios, which did the trick. Loaded an old (DOS) version of Cakewalk inbetween too, just for fun.

Based around an Aopen AX6BC and currently running a PII 400mhz this is my attempt at recreating a late 90s music production PC. So far it's been a low-budget build. I picked up the main components inexpensively from a fellow enthusiast, the case I found on Gumtree locally for £3 with the Liteon PSU, …

These NEC cards are hungry for resources in a way that a lot of old boards just don't like. I have had a lot of problems with them on my test bench, which is an a Intel branded 440BX board. When the thing starts acting up, it will begin complaining about resource conflicts in the worst way, even in …

These NEC cards are hungry for resources in a way that a lot of old boards just don't like. I have had a lot of problems with them on my test bench, which is an a Intel branded 440BX board. When the thing starts acting up, it will begin complaining about resource conflicts in the worst way, even in …

Can you try a different PCI slot? or maybe a different video card? What about a PCI video card? You could also try freeing up resources in the BIOS menu. Disable devices you don't use (Parallel/Serial ports, native USB) and don't assign an IRQ to the video card. In the resource manager tab set all …

New member... hello! Just jumping on the back of this thread having not had time to read the whole thing (apologies) as I'm failing to get a Link-It / Belkin card to work in my Aopen AX6BC. It has an NEC d720101gj chip. Basically installing the card in a PCI slot (I tried 2) gives me a blank screen …