First post, by loveburn
Hello guys , i need your help, i have a Retro PC with Gigabyte GA-6VTXE-A Motherboard (With VIA Apollo Pro 133T) chipset, 350W FSP PSU, CPU Intel Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.2Ghz, 128-512MB RAM, GeForce2 MX400 and GeForce 4 Ti4200 GFX , ISA Creative AWE64 Sound Blaster 120GB IDE HDD and IDE DVD-RW ... Everything was fine until I wanted to install a 3DFx accelerator... And Voodoo 1 don't work, The machine is hang after try to start glide application... Voodoo 2 same not working, after REINSTALLING OS Windows 98SE or ME (fresh install) i try to install reference drivers and after reboot open the Screen Settings and click on V2-1000 tab , the Screen settings.cpl are freeze (helped kill the process RunDLL via task manager) and if i install FastVoodoo2 4.6 drivers Screen.cpl not working just nothing not openned , dxdiag same not openned...if i try to start any Glide app just hang the system....
What i try and it not helped for me:
After any fresh windows install firstly i am install VIA 4in1 Hyperion drivers pack.
Try using different FSB and CPU Freqency (FSB from 66 to 133 CPU from 600 to 1.2 Stock frequency)
Try Change Master GPU
Try change RAM (use different banks)
try to unplug DVD-ROM
Unplug all devices from motherboard...
So may be anybody know how i can fix it? i think the problem in VIA Chipset but its only with VooDoo cards, any other devices like PCI USB Controller or PCI SATA Controller or PCI Ethernet Controller works fine! except Voodoo (... may be need to change special register in chipset, because BIOS settings on this Mother is very skimp.... best regards and many thanks for any help!