re: Would NT4 questions, if any, be on-topic in this forum?
Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 9:12 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2207 messages posted)
The Biostar MB, M5ALA, with the same chipset, was also problematic while running
Geforce video cards, and with Creative's drivers. I never did get any NIC working
on that one in Win98se. But it's not the DOS prompt in W9X that I want to use (for
that, when I am nostalgic enough for "sprite-based" graphics, I think I will try
DOSbox).
I never had a separate 3D accellerator like a VooDoo, just the usual ATI / S3 / etc
before the Rivas came along and turned the 2D vs 3D apple cart on its head.
I had Soyo boards in the 386 / 486 time frame, and had good service from them. The
one I have now doesn't know what a "fast boot" is, however, compared to the Asus
P5A's quickness getting the POST over with, and an OS loaded (I'm arguing with an
odd keyboard here while writing this. It's an Ideazon Merc "stealth", and the key
pad is a silly jumble -- explaining the sig now being below the quote!).
I think that I've mentioned that my first Pentium PC used the Via VP or MVP chipset
(I don't recall it being so slow to POST); I have hopes it will be as good this time
as that one was back then, but I am going to try running the P5A with an ATI "SDR"
card as its last chance before I break that one back down into components!
May 28, 2009 at 10:08 pm, C K wrote:
>Hmmm.. My old P5A runs some of those old DOS games under Win 98SE pretty well to
>just fine or I boot to DOS with some added software for memory handling. Never
had
>an issue with losing access to any hardware while running, and the USB ports worked
>fine under W2K. The P5A has a 3DFX VOODOO 3-3000 video card with a set of tweaked
>drivers after support was dropped, a Netgear 10/100 NIC and I had an SB PCI128 and
>more recently an SB 64 Gold audio card(s) that I had laying around. Installed the
>last BETA BIOS.. All have worked without a hitch, both under Win 9X and W2K. In
>my opinion and observation back then, I thought the Soyo boards were more stable
>and less buggy, at least the ones I built in comparing Asus and Soyo, and the Soyo's
>seemed to be a little faster.
>
>Now the P5A just sits in a nice little Enermax tooless case, in a box on the shelf
>as I had tweaked out one of my Asus P2B-DS 1 gig P3's to run Win 95 thru ME by swapping
>HDD trays. The older games for the most part run pretty well, when I do have time
>to sit and play. I would give the P5A away if someone wanted it! It does email
>and surfing just fine and although it is a little slow under W2K, it never crashed
>unless I had a buggy program. LOL
.
Kiwi
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