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Long story but was visiting parents and the old "we still got things of yours in the loft" was dropped in again, so I decided to go up and take a look.
Found the old family PC and a box with components I forgot all about (the case is from 1997 when it was originally purchased) and the specs are
P3 700mhz Coppermine
ECS P6BAP-ME MB
768MB PC133 Samsung RAM (3x256MB)
10 Gb HDD
52x CDROM
Soundblaster Live 1024
ATI Radeon R6 SG32M PCI
230 WATT PSU
Win 98SE
Stripped it cleaned it and inspected all parts, reassembled, new BIOS battery and switched on to the sound of lots of beeping and no display.
Case fans were busted and not spinning and the graphics card was not displaying in any PCI port which I was gutted about as it was a beast and a relic.
Checked the box of goodies to find a Geforce 2 GTS Pro AGP, Gigabyte GA 60XT MB, P3 Celeron 1.3GHz, P3 Tualatin 1.4GHz, now I remember that these was parts left from first system I built myself in 2000-2001.
I thought oh well why not and after maintenance on the parts from the box I assembled the below in the case.
P3 1.4Ghz Tualatin
Gigabyte GA-60XT MB
512MB RAM PC133 Samsung RAM, CAS 2,Tras/TRC 5/7, Ras to Cas 2, Ras precharge 2(I still believe intel gimped the 815 chipset to push you into P4)
Colorful Geforce2 GTS Pro AGP 32MB
10GB hard Drive (formatted)
52x CDROM
Soundblaster Live 1024
Win 98SE USP 2.1A (clean install)
Fired it up and CPU cooler was dead as different for Tualatin, bought a new CPU cooler and two new 80mm case fans slapped them in and it fired up no problem.
Set the BIOS settings, ran Memtest86 (RAM passed BTW) clean windows install and lots of benchmarking and Retro gaming and not a single BSOD.
I'll post some benchmark results when I find where to post them, now to refresh myself on gaming in DOS with Win 98 installed, I already suspect the soundcard needs to be ISA for DOS?