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Eventually snagged a copy and it can now be found at
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I’ll also note finding the PCI512 driver seemed oddly hard as the Creative support site only listed PCI64 and PCI128 models. I’m only using a 2 speaker system so I’m sure I’d never notice a difference between the two cards. The PCI512 card won as the Live! didn’t have a game port on the back and I wanted to try out an old Gravis Gamepad saved from my early 486 days. Sound Card: It was a choice between the Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit PCI card or the Sound Blaster PCI512.
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The driver for Windows 95 can be found at Unfortunately while I recall owning a pair of these which ran in SLI, the second one is seemingly misplaced so this will just be the single Voodoo2. Video Card (Accelerator): In my collection I found an original Diamond Monster 3D (3dfx Voodoo1) and a Creative Labs 3D Blaster CT6670 (3dfx Voodoo2), so I went with the more powerful Voodoo2 based card.The driver for Windows 9x/NT can be found at I don’t have room for CRTs and I would prefer having the LCD anyway. This card currently drives an LCD at 1024×768 resolution with 16 bit color. While this card does have both 2D and 3D abilities, I’ll be using an accelerator for most of my 3D needs. Video Card (Primary): I’ve got a stack of various PCI cards ranging from Cirrus Logic to ATI, but I think the best card I own from that era is a Diamond Stealth II S220 with the Rendition V2100 chip.Every expansion card I list here came from my own parts storage and was at some point used by me in a past system. Now we take a look at filling our board slots up with goodies. CD-ROM is apparently a Hitachi 8x, and I ordered an 8 GB compact flash card for this build as opposed to using spinning disk. If you happened to read my previous 486 build guide, I’m reusing the same AT case as my 486. After setting all the BIOS options to default after first boot and then enabling what I needed, the system seems completely stable and I have all 256 MB RAM. I took a chance and fired up AWDFLASH to force a 1998 BIOS image ( PC_Chips_M537DMA.zip) to my board. I never found the exact match, but the absolute closest I could find was the PCChips M537DMA board.
This led me down the rabbit hole of Google searches trying to identify this board and locate a BIOS update. Having a pair of 128 MB SDRAM sticks for this build, I wanted to get all of my available RAM for Windows. The one large issue I did encounter with this board was the outdated BIOS not allowing more than 32 MB RAM per SDRAM slot unless the sticks had a certain chip count. I may bump this up to a 233 but it doesn’t seem critical at this time. I wanted to go with an MMX based CPU but my personal collection didn’t include any, so I ordered a 200MHz MMX Pentium off eBay. Fortunately I lucked out with this board being able to support pretty much every Pentium and compatible CPU around at the time. There doesn’t seem to be any visible brand markings and the BIOS string 07/04/97-VXPro+-USB-Ultr-2A5LDH09C-00 only revealed few clues as to who really made this board. This was one of the cheaper boards available on eBay with a coin type battery so I jumped on it without doing much research. We start this build off with an AT style socket 7 motherboard.
My goal for this build was to duplicate the kind of system a power user may have built in the mid 90s.
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Rather than try to buy up more 486 hardware for testing, I decided to go with a Pentium MMX grade Windows 95 PC with gaming abilities.
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For general usability, I found myself running into odd problems and system crashes which limited the amount of old software I could successfully run on it. Earlier this summer I wrote my Building A Vintage 486 PC guide which documented my hunt for 486 parts and getting MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 installed.