Very nice machine 😀

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Very nice machine 😀

BTW i've been wanting to ask you something but i've been forgetting. I can't get any signal from the HD-LED connector on the PCI SATA controller. If i connect my LED there i get absolutely nothing at all. Plus, i've tried to measure both pins with my multimeter and they both read +3 Volts! It doens't seem right. Do i need some special LED or something?

Nice!

I would love to have a DFI super socket 7 board.
Im not sure about Via though but I guess DFI diddnt make any super socket 7 boards with Aladdin V / M1541/ M1543?
Is your system stable and hassle free?

Obviously you need a LED that'll work at 3V 😁

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Nice!

I would love to have a DFI super socket 7 board.
Im not sure about Via though but I guess DFI diddnt make any super socket 7 boards with Aladdin V / M1541/ M1543?
Is your system stable and hassle free?

As it is right now it is pretty stable. There might be some games that will eventually not run properly and such, but so far everything is going well. Also take in mind that i'm pretty much using 3 ISA sound cards which must be configured properly to work. This can create heaps of problems. The AWE64 and the YMF card are not very fond of each other because they will fight over SET BLASTER for instance. I cannot blame the motherboard for some eventual issues, so as far as i can say the system is running great!

thats quite a nice system , wouldn't mind getting a Gravis Ultrasound, I just can't seem to find one for a decent price.

the only improvement I can think of is adding another 64Mb of RAM , though the benefit one would get out of it are not massive.

Not in DOS, but hell lot more fluid Windows 98SE /2k multitasking. A K6-III+ between 550-600 Mhz roughly brings the perf. of a Pentium III at 350 Mhz.

If you have a floppy drive emulator already installed what's the point of having an actual floppy drive? Esthetics Or convenience of using stuff you already have on floppy? Is there limitations to the floppy emulator?

soviet conscript wrote:

If you have a floppy drive emulator already installed what's the point of having an actual floppy drive? Esthetics Or convenience of using stuff you already have on floppy? Is there limitations to the floppy emulator?

Because i'll need the capability of reading old 3.5 and 5.25 disks. Then with HD-COPY i can make disk images and transfer them to the USB partitions for the floppy emulator. It's about preserving the software. Floppy disks will die eventually.

carlostex wrote:

soviet conscript wrote:

If you have a floppy drive emulator already installed what's the point of having an actual floppy drive? Esthetics Or convenience of using stuff you already have on floppy? Is there limitations to the floppy emulator?

Because i'll need the capability of reading old 3.5 and 5.25 disks. Then with HD-COPY i can make disk images and transfer them to the USB partitions for the floppy emulator. It's about preserving the software. Floppy disks will die eventually.

yhea, that makes sence. I just have a mountain of blank floppies so I just backup everything on my XP machine and when I want to play them I copy them to a blank floppy but I suppose one day all those will die.

carlostex wrote:

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Very nice machine 😀

BTW i've been wanting to ask you something but i've been forgetting. I can't get any signal from the HD-LED connector on the PCI SATA controller. If i connect my LED there i get absolutely nothing at all. Plus, i've tried to measure both pins with my multimeter and they both read +3 Volts! It doens't seem right. Do i need some special LED or something?

Both pins read 3V?

Hang on a minute. If you put one probe each on each pin, you should get +3V and then when you swap them around -3V.

Do you happen to have one of these test-bench cables with start button and LEDs?

Like this one:

http://youtu.be/0N3uYnXIer8?t=4m9s

Voltage shouldn't matter as for LEDs it's the current that matters. Brightness is regulated through PWM and not voltage.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Both pins read 3V?

Hang on a minute. If you put one probe each on each pin, you should get +3V and then when you swap them around -3V.

Do you happen to have one of these test-bench cables with start button and LEDs?

Yep that's what i get. And yes i've tried with separate LED's. Now have LED's changed in anyway? Because either my case HD LED and separate are dead when i connect themto the PCI SATA Controller. If i use an Hard Drive on the IDE motherboard controller the LED has no trouble in picking up the signals from the motherboard LED connector.

Maybe the PCI card is faulty in that regard?

Nice build, but where's the 3DFX love? You should at least have an original Voodoo in there.

Jolaes76 wrote:

Not in DOS, but hell lot more fluid Windows 98SE /2k multitasking. A K6-III+ between 550-600 Mhz roughly brings the perf. of a Pentium III at 350 Mhz.

hmm , that statement makes me wonder, if there is any benefit to running Win2000 on this system over Win98SE, Win2000 should be more stable, but less compatible.

I would agree with the Mhz rating, at least in the 3D department, I had a K6-3 450 until recently, and it performed similarly to a PII 266 in most 3D games ,

turning off the L2 cache and running DOS (or Win95) on it would make a pretty nifty late DOS system though.

Win2000 is a great OS for running Win9x games on period hardware, though it does have a few compatibility issues and I wouldn't recommend it for anything requiring MS-DOS or IPX networking. Otherwise, I like it a lot as a retro OS.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

Win2000 is a great OS for running Win9x games on period hardware, though it does have a few compatibility issues and I wouldn't recommend it for anything requiring MS-DOS or IPX networking. Otherwise, I like it a lot as a retro OS.

its certainly very stable, though I remember a few games not working on WinNT 4.0 , like C&C.

were there any performance improvements in games over Win98? I never actually compared them.

I think a big part of the reason why the old C&C games didn't work on NT-based OSes was just because of how their IPX networking was coded.

On that note, I read that Red Alert 2 came out late in 2000. Did people struggle with running that game on XP at all?

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I think a big part of the reason why the old C&C games didn't work on NT-based OSes was just because of how their IPX networking was coded.

On that note, I read that Red Alert 2 came out late in 2000. Did people struggle with running that game on XP at all?

Ive ran it on XP , it runs fine without any issues., most likely due to the native Win2000 support, Tiberian Sun also works ok, though it can be a bit too fast.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

Nice build, but where's the 3DFX love? You should at least have an original Voodoo in there.

I do have a Voodoo Banshee and a Voodoo 3. The Voodoo 3 is not very healthy, so the S3 is a great replecement. In the future this system will house a second HDD with a Windows 98 install. The Voodoo Banshee is probably gonna take the S3 place.