First post, by vandymachine
Hello everyone!
First off, this is my first post. I have lurked here for years but never joined.
Now, on to details.
I originally years ago had one Voodoo 2 card. I never had the money to buy another one. Well, that has changed!
I am working on building a Voodoo 2 sleeper PC and see what I was missing back in the late 90's.
My specs for the build are as follows.
HP Pavillion 6643 PC
Windows 98 SE
Intel 810 Motherboard
800 MHZ Pentium 3 processor
NOS Thermaltake Volcano 7+ Processor fan with fan speed control switch
256 MB of PC 133 ram (runs at 100 mhz on this mobo)
15 GB Quantum Fireball HD (Might switch this out with a 32 GB CF to PATA adapter)
52x CD ROM BURNER
NOS Floppy drive
Soundblaster Live CT4780 Sound Card
*TBD* PCI video card - Any suggestions? Matrox?, Nvidia Riva TNT2 (which I have NOS) ?)
2 Voodoo 2 12 MB video cards in SLI
PC has all disks and manuals 😀 - A rare sight to be sure!
I have taken everything apart & cleaned.
I have installed the Thermaltake CPU fan. I had to cut off one of the metal holes on the CPU bracket to clear a capacitor (there are still 2 others on that side). There will involve a bit of dremel work on the CD cage for said fan & heat sink to fit also.
The hard drive was relocated from the lower front wall of the case to just under the CD-ROM drive.
An exhaust fan was installed where the Hard drive was previously.
Installed Windows 98 SE using the 2 original restore disks (Now I have to re remember how to properly delete things out of the registry without blowing everything up...🤣)
Looking to install a small fan (small GPU fan) over the north bridge chip - Because why not? And, there are mounting holes for it 😀
Issues thus far are:
The motherboard's bios is older & will not see the 800 MHZ CPU at full speed. It sees it as a Pentium 3 600 MHZ. While searching the web for CPU compatibility I found my solution. I would have to update the bios - obviously. Problem is all of the links I have found on the net are dead for said bios update. Does anyone know where I could find this updated bios?
Links to pics of the build (so far) are below. Pudding in the first picture will not be in the build 😜
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