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I am testing a super socket 7 DFI P5BV3+ mobo. It's the revision B mobo; B3 to be precise. It's got 1MB of on board cache. It accepts K6+ chips. It's a VIA board, and uses the MVP3 chipset. I used a PS/2 cable, and got an optical mouse working on the mobo's PS/2 header. I have OC'd a K6-III+ 400 MHz CPU to 600 MHz, and got this stable in Windows 98. ATM, there's a Pentium MMX 233 MHz in it.
1) Link to the revision B mobo manual
2) Link to VIA 4-in-1 driver, version 4.43
3) Link to undocumented settings for the P5BV3+ mobo series
4) Link to the latest BIOS
5) Link to Uniflash version 1.40
6) Link to an era appropriate version of AwdFlash.exe
7) Link to George Breese's software
8 ) Link to Sandra 2001 standard shareware edition
Notes
2) According to the VIA's "Retro OS VIA 4in1 drivers" release notes, version 4.43 is the correct version to use for this mobo.
4) I found this BIOS file on DriverGuide. The file on that site is called DFI20P5BV320rev.B.zip. This is for the revision B board. Apparently, there are 3 revisions of this board: A, B, and C. The old BIOS string was 01/03/2000-VP3-586B-CD-2A5LED4CC-00. The new BIOS string is 11/30/2000-VP3-586B-CD-2A5LED4CC-00.
5) I successfully used UniFlash to flash this mobo's BIOS. I have included a link to the AwdFlash.exe utility, if you want to use that instead.
7) I ran Sandra 2001 memory benchmark before and after applying George Breese's memory interleave enabler. Before scores = 72, 101. After scores = 83, 125. Success! Also on this website, and appropriate for this mobo, is the "PCI Latency" patch, and a patch for the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! card. The "PCI Latency" patch doesn't specify support for Windows 95, but I have tested it in Windows 98. I have not tested the patch for the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! card yet.
8 ) For Sandra 2001 to work in Windows 95, I needed to download two .DLL files called ws2_32.dll and ws2help.dll. I googled for them, and found them on the dll-files.com website. I put these two files in to the windows/system folder.
Questions
1) What other Sandra versions do people have? I only have 2001 standard and 2002 Pro. Both are free. Does anyone have the 2001 "pro" version, please?