First post, by Duouk2000
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So I'm looking to rebuild the first PC I ever owned which was purchased second hand for me in late 99 for Christmas. This was where I learnt all about Windows through trial and a lot of error 🤣 It was never stable and always crashed probably due to being riddled with malware and having a ton of different GPU drivers installed from different manufactures as I tried to stop it from crashing in games (seriously, even Cossacks would crash on this system).
Anyway, I want to recreate this build and see how far I can push it but I'm struggling on one or two points.
It had, to the best of my knowledge-
PII 223MHz
32MB SDRAM
Gigabyte Motherboard with onboard video?
Voodoo 2
C-Media Sound Card
15" CRT
The first issue is the CPU, I can swear blind it was a 223MHz CPU but everywhere I look online says the PII series started at 233MHz? Could there have been a bios setting running the CPU 10MHz slower or am I just remembering this detail incorrectly?
The second is the motherboard. I don't remember ever having a dedicated 2D card in this machine and when I borrowed my friends copy of Episode 1: Racer it would never let me boot the game as only 28MB RAM would show in the hardware analyzation screen. This leads me to believe the motherboard was reserving 4MB RAM for the onboard GPU? Was that a thing during that era? I can't think of any other reason only 28MB would show.