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Three Motherboards from freecycle

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First post, by Daniel4200

Posted on 2025-10-12, 11:57

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I have acquired three motherboards from freecycle and plenty of memory fdd's and Cd dvd drives.

I thought i would start uploading some photos and progress while I am trying to put them together.
It will probably be slow progress ( I have already come up against the first teo hurdles).

Motherboard 1

Gigabyte BX 2000 with a Pentuim 3 450mhz

Motherboard 2 and 3

EP-8KTA+ one has an Athlon 1ghz and one a Duron 600mhz

also 3dfx 3000, Geforce 2 mx32mb, hercules prophet ii mx, and a sound plaster (i think 128).

If anyone is interested I will keep updating as I make progress (hopefully) and ask for a little help when I get stuck.

Reply 1 of 5, by Daniel4200

Posted on 2025-10-12, 12:23

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I have strated to put the Pentium 3 together with the Voodoo3000

The first issue is that the psu motherbord cables are not long enough so I will need a new one.

Second issue was a bios wide range protection error, i managed to boot into the dual bios function and flash the backup. This hopefully has fixed it.

Third issue is that the 120gb hdd is not being recognised by the bios, I have two others but I might look for a smaller capacity than 120gb and hope that works.

Reply 2 of 5, by PD2JK

Posted on 2025-10-12, 12:27

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Good catch! Especially that 3Dfx card and the first dual BIOS mainboard by Gigabyte.

Maybe the hard drive has a capacity limit jumper so it gets recognized by the BIOS?

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Reply 3 of 5, by Daniel4200

Posted on 2025-10-12, 12:38

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PD2JK wrote on 2025-10-12, 12:27:

Good catch! Especially that 3Dfx card and the first dual BIOS mainboard by Gigabyte.

Maybe the hard drive has a capacity limit jumper so it gets recognized by the BIOS?

Thanks for the advice. I will look into that. It seems to be the only real issue I am having. Other than the power supply (I really should buy a new one so i don't have to worry about it going bang).

Reply 4 of 5, by Daniel4200

Posted on 2025-10-12, 14:16

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PD2JK wrote on 2025-10-12, 12:27:

Good catch! Especially that 3Dfx card and the first dual BIOS mainboard by Gigabyte.

Maybe the hard drive has a capacity limit jumper so it gets recognized by the BIOS?

It can be limited to 32gb 👍

Reply 5 of 5, by PD2JK

Posted on 2025-10-12, 15:21

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Great! It should function properly that way.

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