Whoa! That was QUICK ! I haven't finished looking through the fairly recent threads here yet (been awhile since I've dropped in), and I already see that someone is responding. I have two different Asus P5As, but one seems dead or nearly so. I formerly had a pair of Biostar M5ALA MBs as well, but …

At one time, I had a pair of Gigabyte GA7-ZXE systems on hand at the same time, one Rev 0, the other a newer revision. The older one, no matter what BIOS flash had been attempted, never recognized any XP faster than a 1500. The other one worked fine with a Palomino 2100, but that was its top limit. …

What an interesting old thread! I have semi-usable retros based on three old setups, two of which are very similar. I had great hopes for the Asus P5A, and never ran across this preference it is supposed to have for K6-3s. I have several K6-2s, and a couple of Intel Pentium/MMX chips, but they seem …

The "best" VGA chipset for DOS era gaming is subjectional. The oldschool pre-3d acceleration guys will say ET4000 is best as it's the most widely supported and could do many Xmodes well and planar shifts pretty smoothly. The pre 3Dfx crowd will tell you that s3 Virge is best as it has support in …

As of today, I "only" have a moderately older system available for playing early Win9x games in Win98se, using 384 MBs RAM, with a GF3 Ti-200 and a sub-GHz CPU. The DX4/ 100 MHz 486 system is apart while I transfer its internals to a somewhat more up to date chassis to enable me to swap parts more …

Between this foum and WCCIC (Wing Commander CIC), both groups have pretty well convinced me to go with DOSbox on a spare PC (which has to be assembled) -- I have an AMD 3200 single core CPU and a choice of an AGP or PCIe (MSI) mainboard for it. One NF3 250, the other NF4. Either can be Overclocked …

In reverse order, thanks for the Sidewinder in DOS link. The MB in the DX4's system is a SOYO of some sort, but I've lost track of any documentation I might have saved here, and it didn't come back to me with any CDs or printouts that I gave it away with. There may have been a glitch in the form of …

I've just followed Johan's link to IGN/ 3D Gamers, and there is no actual download there, only a help file on how to use the update if you manage to ever get it. I've been back (on this dial-up system, not the bedroom's cable broadband), and I remember why I never went hack to IGN after registering …

I haven't fully checked the entire component inventory in the DX4/100 yet, though I do know it only has 32 MBs of RAM (probably EDO, but with all of those ribbon cables running everywhere (I'd sorta managed to forget that), I'm not sure what all is inside of it. I do know it actually boots into …

I cannot imagine a good excuse for Win95 in that P-II box. Maybe for a 32 MB total (EDO) RAM DX4-486/100 . . (whuch I do happen to have).

Just arrived today, scanned the first page here, saw only a couple of semi-pertinent threads, read them, still have the same curiosity bump itching. Over the 20-plus years I've been building some of my own PCs, I gave away or sold most of my old stuff, but occasionally some gift systems have come …