buckeye wrote:

This is my latest W98 system - see sig with V2 sli. Been having all kinds of lockups/freezes in games: […]
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This is my latest W98 system - see sig with V2 sli. Been having all kinds of lockups/freezes in games:

Quake2 The Reckoning: runs the startup scenes but try messing with video options it freezes just before starting a game. Vanilla Quake2
and Ground Zero run ok.

Janes WWII Fighters: In options menus the mouse becomes unresponsive - can't click on anything, weird. Once in game it seems ok via glide mode but looks pretty rough.

European Air War: Try switching to glide mode but it "black screens" before starting game but cntrl-alt-del recovers. D3D works ok.

Incoming, Rogue Squadron, MechWarrior3, NFS3-Hot Pursuit all work fine. So far all I've done to help things is move up from Dx7 to Dx8 and patch the games which seemed to help Quake2. Other things I'm looking into:

1. Reformat and start over with Dx6.
2. Try FastVoodoo drivers versus latest 3DFX ref.
3. Try latest drivers for Aureal Vortex2.
4. Ditch the Asus board and go with Intel SE440BX-2.

From what I can see, the earlier games cause the most problems so maybe that's why some of you have multiple iterations of W98 systems? If anyone can think of something else to try before starting from scratch please let me know, thanks!

Could the "forum administrator" please move this to old general hardware section? Sorry, I screwed up!

Moderators can move too! Moved.

The VooDoo2 cards require DirectX 7. Also, check for IRQ conflicts as well. I'm having the same issue with my VooDoo2 card locking the system up or restarts itself after logging into Windows 98SE that has DirectX 8a installed.

1. Reformat and start over with Dx6. - Wouldn't do that. Dx7 is required for Voodoo2 I guess..
2. Try FastVoodoo drivers versus latest 3DFX ref. - Definately do that
3. Try latest drivers for Aureal Vortex2. - I'm an exclusively SB guy, never had any experience with this card, so I have no idea
4. Ditch the Asus board and go with Intel SE440BX-2. - Why is that? Asus P3B's were legendary with their stability back in the days, as far as I can remember

tayyare wrote:

1. Reformat and start over with Dx6. - Wouldn't do that. Dx7 is required for Voodoo2 I guess.. 2. Try FastVoodoo drivers versus […]
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1. Reformat and start over with Dx6. - Wouldn't do that. Dx7 is required for Voodoo2 I guess..
2. Try FastVoodoo drivers versus latest 3DFX ref. - Definately do that
3. Try latest drivers for Aureal Vortex2. - I'm an exclusively SB guy, never had any experience with this card, so I have no idea
4. Ditch the Asus board and go with Intel SE440BX-2. - Why is that? Asus P3B's were legendary with their stability back in the days, as far as I can remember

Will try Fastvoodoo drivers first before embarking on the sound card drivers. Sometimes you read about sound issues causing all kinds of hiccups.

Regarding the hardware on your sig, how do you like the Gigabyte board? Is it pretty reliable?

buckeye wrote:

tayyare wrote:

1. Reformat and start over with Dx6. - Wouldn't do that. Dx7 is required for Voodoo2 I guess.. 2. Try FastVoodoo drivers versus […]
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1. Reformat and start over with Dx6. - Wouldn't do that. Dx7 is required for Voodoo2 I guess..
2. Try FastVoodoo drivers versus latest 3DFX ref. - Definately do that
3. Try latest drivers for Aureal Vortex2. - I'm an exclusively SB guy, never had any experience with this card, so I have no idea
4. Ditch the Asus board and go with Intel SE440BX-2. - Why is that? Asus P3B's were legendary with their stability back in the days, as far as I can remember

Will try Fastvoodoo drivers first before embarking on the sound card drivers. Sometimes you read about sound issues causing all kinds of hiccups.

Regarding the hardware on your sig, how do you like the Gigabyte board? Is it pretty reliable?

All my PIII builts to date were some sort of Gigabyte S370 boards. I'm always happy with them. Having still online support (drivers, manuals and BIOS updates) for them directly from Gigabyte site is always a plus.

This last one in my sig is an additional source of happiness with its native Tually support 🤣 I wish I had a spare. If something happens to it, I'll be back to coppermine 1000s 😵

I'm Asus guy in the heart though. Gigabyte is almost always the second choice compared to Asus, but for socket 370, I like Gigabyte's more.

tayyare wrote:

All my PIII builts to date were some sort of Gigabyte S370 boards. I'm always happy with them. Having still online support (driv […]
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buckeye wrote:

tayyare wrote:

1. Reformat and start over with Dx6. - Wouldn't do that. Dx7 is required for Voodoo2 I guess.. 2. Try FastVoodoo drivers versus […]
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1. Reformat and start over with Dx6. - Wouldn't do that. Dx7 is required for Voodoo2 I guess..
2. Try FastVoodoo drivers versus latest 3DFX ref. - Definately do that
3. Try latest drivers for Aureal Vortex2. - I'm an exclusively SB guy, never had any experience with this card, so I have no idea
4. Ditch the Asus board and go with Intel SE440BX-2. - Why is that? Asus P3B's were legendary with their stability back in the days, as far as I can remember

Will try Fastvoodoo drivers first before embarking on the sound card drivers. Sometimes you read about sound issues causing all kinds of hiccups.

Regarding the hardware on your sig, how do you like the Gigabyte board? Is it pretty reliable?

All my PIII builts to date were some sort of Gigabyte S370 boards. I'm always happy with them. Having still online support (drivers, manuals and BIOS updates) for them directly from Gigabyte site is always a plus.

This last one in my sig is an additional source of happiness with its native Tually support 🤣 I wish I had a spare. If something happens to it, I'll be back to coppermine 1000s 😵

I'm Asus guy in the heart though. Gigabyte is almost always the second choice compared to Asus, but for socket 370, I like Gigabyte's more.

These must be "slim pickens" hard to find - will keep an eye out for one for my first foray into socket 370.