Sphere478

Try the oldest drivers you can find for them. Also a older OS (don’t install all the service packs. at some point drivers are going to want specific cpu instructions also. You can’t go too new on the cards/drivers. i have used a 9800 pro with a k6-3+ before though. It works good. But many agp slots on ss7 mobos are buggy you might be surprised just how well windows 98se, ME, works. 9x/me has very little overhead. with the NT OSs try sticking to low service packs.

There is a guy on the other group I’m on that is working on playing minecraft on the slowest hardware possible. So far he has gotten it running on a pentium 90 (totally unplayable of course) but it loads. that is almost basically what I have here. But I suspect he was using a s7 or ss7 mobo/chipset and probably more ram.

I’m a bit of a k6 enthusiast. can you give more details of the issues and all detailed specs of the system? Maybe I can help. Mobo model number processor full model including voltage and letters after rating video card being used. Os being used. Etc right now I am having trouble getting the gateway 2000 to install a os onto the scsi. I have a few ideas of things to try though.

I heard there were some retro folks here. Dono how accurate that was but here is one of my many builds. this came to me as a 486 40 sx with no l2 cache, 8? Mb of ram and 512k of video memory. so far I have upgraded it to a pentium overdrive 83mhz, I can probably upgrade it to a amd 133mhz 5x86 but not sure if that would actually be faster or not as the PODs are pretty snappy on the 486 scene anyway I got 32mb of ram working, but it had to be double sided. Single sided 16mb sticks didn’t seem to want to work. If I can find some 32 chip 32mb sticks I could try that, but considering 4 chip 16mb sticks work, I’m not holding my breath. May need to run some missing address lines from the chipset? the video is either isa or vl bus, not sure which. But I upgraded the memory from 512k to 1mb on it maxing it out I believe the cache was not present. I installed 256 k maxing it out I believe. for storage, I wanted to go as fast as possible. Since isa was the only bus available It was suggested to go scsi. It’s not finished yet, but eventually I want to get windows 9x on it and play a few basic windows games. And of course dos games.