Chadti99 wrote on Today, 00:28:

feipoa wrote on Yesterday, 23:46:

Chadti99 wrote on Yesterday, 20:56:

I ended up sourcing another m919 and this one seems to be quite a bit more stable although still inconsistent between boots.

That sounds like the majority of M919's. Maybe it's related to their thin and springy motherboards.

Agreed, you’ve warned me a few times. So far I got through a Windows install no problem but crashes when it finally boots to the desktop. I should really give up on this board.

I also tested the 1:1 pci thing recently with my 180 setup and no go. I used cards that have proven to work at a 60+ mhz bus on other boards previously. My matrox g200 would make it as far as dosbench after being hot switched and then freeze shortly into anything, my sis 6326 wouldn't even make it that far. I suspect they would if I relaxed cache timing....however experience tells me that the loss of speed from relaxing cache is not worth faster pci, so I'm not pursuing the 1:1 avenue any further

Do you have the same crash after windows install /desktop even if you slow down to 180? Also, if you run the quake benchmark from dosbench at 640x480 does it complete, or does it crash? Because if it crashes that just means that cpu won't run 200 reliably

Edit: one more thing if pursuing windows on these- I found both with the matrox card AND with a cl gd5464 laguna VGA card I was using I would have to turn off bus mastering in the driver's (and usually had to use the manufacturers driver for this as the windows one didn't offer it). If i did not, there would be trouble.

i looked at old notes early in this thread and it looks like i was able to run the board at 3x60 1:1 tightest bios timings. results confirm it with the high doom score.
however i was not able to get it stable at 3x66.
so your success is encouraging, may give that a try locally.

so bertram, are your running fully stable 3x66?

this board equipped with the modern 1mb L2 cache module is great for 3x60. probably the best one out there for DOS interactive graphics, but pci divider must be 1:1.
it is somewhat less than ideal for Windows because it is unable to run some specific pci graphics cards such as voodoo3 that offer peak perf in win gui and enable 3d accelerated graphics.