Have you done this before?

I've checked and the card is set to operate using full 16 bit slot. This computer is a strange frankenstein. It has A-TREND ATC-1545 motherboard which has integrated IDE controller but someone has put an extra IDE controller - Sun Moon Star SMS-31094. And also this TVGA 9000. This seems to be some …

Thanks, I will check the jumpers. This is 32 bit Pentium class machine. Socket 7. Now it has 75 MHz cpu, but I plan to put 133 MHz Pentium. However after a short investigation it think the best choice is to put S3 graphics with 2 MB of video ram and install Windows 95 on it.

Heh, that was my first thought. And I did some calculations, it is able to work in 800x600 mode using 8 bit color. It has 512 KB of video memory 😁 It seems to be an ideal card to work with MS-DOS & text mode. 😊

Hi, i just grabbed an Optimus computer from an early 90's era. It has some nice components like Trident TVGA 9000B graphics cards. I see that this card is very slow, even BIOS pages are loading slow. I'm wondering if it is so ridiculous slow even in text mode, does it make any sense to use it with …

Meh, I don't want to corrupt the board. 😒

Thank you for this link. Now I see that I need some serious computing power in order to utilise two Voodoo 2 cards. I will stick with one. They are quite expensive nowadays as well...

Thank you for your replies. BTW only early revisions of FIC PA-2005 supported the 66MHz FSB max. Most could do 75MHz as well. Unfortunately it seems that mine is an early revision. I've seen in the manual that there is a small jumper located on the mobo and if it is set to 1-2 then only 66 is …

Hi, last time i've bought a highscreen socket 7 computer - very good condition. It has FIC PA-2005 motherboard (no AGP). I have Voodoo 2 3d accelerator and I'm wondering which CPU will best utilize the performance of Voodoo 2? I see that the motherboard can handle up to 66 MHz FSB, so I'm limited to …

Yeah, you guys are right, I forgot that because I was using Windows 95 ages ago. This is my first such old build. Previously I was using Windows 98 with AMD K6. Will try it today. I think i will give a try with PowerStrip. EDIT: By the way, can I ask the administrator to change this thread topic to …

It is really hard to find any information regarding this motherboard. Not to mention about BIOS updates :( Now I've got another problem. Got S3 Virge with 4 MB graphics card, but no chance to run at 1600x900 resolution (which is native to my display). It should work, because 1600 x 900 x 2 (16 bit …

I will give a try with MS-DOS 6.22 + MSCDEX. Then will install Windows 95. EDIT: I did it! It was the way to go! I had to install MS-DOS 6.22, then MSCDEX. Now I'm installing Windows 95 from an original CD.

Yeah, I had the same situation years ago with my Compaq Presario CDS, but the CDROM was detected if I'am correct. EDIT: Maybe I should buy some sound card and then attach the CDROM to it?

This is "the fancy", colorfull AMIBIOS with mouse support. I can choose boot order, but there are only two options "C, A" and "A, C". Then it seems there is no option to boot from CDROM directly. I need boot floppy disk from Windows 98 and then choose "boot from CD"? And it doesn't matter whether …

Hi, I'm owning the mentioned motherboard. It's MSI 5124 model. There are several problems. It doesn't detects any of my CD-ROMs. I tried many of them (around 10 pcs). Some of them are dated 1997, while the others are more modern (2011). None of them are detected. Does this motherboard support CDROM? …

Hi guys I'm happy owner of GA-586SG super socket 7 motherboard. It runs very well with AMD K6-2/333MHz AFR, but I want to put AMD K5 PR90 processor inside. The processor description is: "AMD-K5-PR90ABQ 90 MHz". I have the owner's manual of the motherboard, but there is no information about K5 90MHz …