Where's "here"? In my part of the woods (NL) anything Aureal tends to command a premium over SBLives, which you can hardly give away... In any event, none of the above are ideal for DOS, but as a Windows card SBLive/Audigy is probably superior. Given you have a motherboard with DDMA, the ESS Solo …

Well that Aureal card looks really, really shady - but as already mentioned, it's hardly likely to be worse than the SB128, and possibly quite a bit better. Unless it's expensive I'd go for it. Indeed. I can find some Sound Blasters Live, Audigy 1 and 2 pretty easily around here also, but at twice …

I don't have any personal experience with Aureal 2 cards, so someone else will have to chime in on that. All I'm saying is, pretty much any other PCI sound card will give you a better experience in DOS games than a SB128. I can vouch for a Yamaha YMF 724 or a 744 card , but only if your motherboard …

As a fellow owner of the SB128, any sound card is better than that trash. Craptastic software EAX and the worst sounding FM synth in existence are two major reasons to ditch it. Indeed, the emulation is a JOKE... lol. At first I thought it was broken, but it is just BAD. Anyways, that generic …

Currently i have a Sound Blaster PCI 128 (ES1371 Chip) in my retro rig, and it does not have an ISA slot. I have found a cheap unbranded Vortex 2 card, and I would like to know if it's a worthy upgrade for the SBPCI in general, playing dos games with sb16/fm emulation (not considering the major …

It was the USB 2.0 controller here also, removed it and now the performance is great (3923 3dmarks in 3dm2000, and above 60 fps in Quake 2). https://imgur.com/olwYNCl

Well, turns out it was the USB 2.0 controller card interfering in Windows 98 SE. Removing it fixed the performance:

There we go, it was the USB card (NEC chipset). Thank you bloodem, much appreciated. Going to boot back into my original install now and see if it’s OK in there too with the newer 4-in-1 and AmigaMerlin drivers. Did you have to remove the card? Or just disable it in windows? I have a dual boot, I …

Are you using a sound card or any other devices in the ISA/PCI slots? Can you try and remove everything and see if there's any change? For example, I had a very similar problem (on a different board), which, as I discovered, was caused by a USB 2.0 PCI card: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f= …

I'm having the same issue, in an extremely more powerful setup than yours (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=73478). My A7v133 (Via KT133 - Via 4 in 1 4.43v drivers) + 384mb PC133 + Atlhon XP at 2ghz with a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI in W98SE is giving me around 30fps in Quake II @ 1024x768, and …

A few updates.. Magically i just got it working realiably. I disassembled the whole system, literally dish washed the motherboard, let it dry for a few days then reassembled everything trying out some new things. Changed the power supply (again), cables, changed the VIO jumper on the motherboard …

No overclocking on this one, the CPU is not overclockable as you had discovered when you wind back, works correctly still, do not overclock or use odd combinations. Keep it to stock clock, yours is fsb of 133 for a athlon 1700+ is 11x 133 = 1466MHz. If you want 2GHz, buy Athlon XP 2400+ …

candle_86 wrote on 2020-04-29, 12:06: Does the controller have a flash rom, slot of the via controllers don't. How do i check that? It does have an extra chip labeled: "SST MPF 39VF512".

Let me clear a few questions first: - The processor is UNLOCKED. The first batches of TBRED-B´s got unlocked multipliers, this one is the case. I also have a Barton 2500+, that is LOCKED. - I´m using two sticks of PC133 RAM, a 256mb and a 128mb one (but also tried with just one stick, as stated with …

Humm, i should probably check the caps then. I also noticed that my Atlhon XP is chipped around the corners, could this be an issue also? https://pasteboard.co/J5YiBAj.jpg https://pasteboard.co/J5Yj6JS.jpg https://pasteboard.co/J5Yj8qE.jpg

My guess would be that something is off with the motherboard (possibly bad capacitors?) . Have you tried the Via 4-in-1 drivers ? I´m using 4-in-1 version 4.43. Capacitors could probably gone bad, since i have this board for almost 20 years and never had any repair done to it. But i never heard of …

Have you tried a different hard drive ? I have a Seagate Barracuda 80 GB 7200.7 SATA hard drive. I tried installing XP in it, using an SATA -> IDE adapter i have, and during the copy files phase i also got random copying errors (that passed after retrying). I didnt complete the windows installation …

Enjoying some free time i decided to rebuild an old PC i have to play some classic games. But no matter what i do i can't make it work reliably. These are the (current) specs: AMD Atlhon XP 1700+ Thoroughbred-B @ 2ghz (100 x 20) @ 1.75v Asus A7V133 (Via KT133A/686B) Rev 1.05 (NO DOT) Voodoo 3 3000 …