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Hi everybody, last weekend i tried to build up a pc with an Evilking Voodoo4 with Tv-Out. First on an Asus P3bf and later on a P2bf. Cpu is a Tualeron on a modified MSI 6905 Slot1-adapter. power supply has 350W should be more than enough. With 100Mhz FSB the system is prime-stable for minimum 1h (di...

...but i have to tell you that its still unstable. Ran Prime95 (CPU Test) for 3hours without crash. But it crashes after 3D application (about 20min). Maybe there are also bad caps for the voltage regulation of the v3? You know which they are?It can not be one of the bigger caps, because i replaced ...

Hey friends!

I bought those caps and replaced them. Replaced all 1000µF ones and all the Caps around the CPU Slot.

Before the exchange, the PC crashed every time while running the second demo loop of 3DMark2000. Now it runs since one hour without one crash.

Thx again Hony

Thank you!

I will buy and try!

Thx again Tobi

Hi Hony, ps47 and friends! Especially Hony:-) Can you look (write) me which capacitors u replaced on your Board with their specs? Mine is getting unstable more and more and i think i will have to replace the caps.the reason for my please is that it is at the moment a big effort to look it up on my b...

No Microcode update required to run Tualerons. Ps47 and Hony: DONT flash Bios is send u...simply doesn´t work. I bought a 1,3 Ghz Tualatin Celeron and modified a Msi6905 Slot1 adapter as described here : http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/~rufem1/pc/tualatin2.html It´s running fast and reliable, the Vcore on ...

hmm sounds like the board needs a microcode update. perhaps hony is able to do this. would be great if a tualatin would work on the board. how did u mod this adapter?

which adapter have u used to run teh tualatin? maybe its communication error...Cant u enable L1 + L2 in Bios Setup? Did u measure the Vcore?

Hi Hony and friends! Back in Black! Im still running my board on 1.3 Msi Bios. I disconnect the usb hub everytime for boot up and shut down. minor problem. i think its an active one but i have no power supply connected (->passive). As u know i´m running n64 emulation on that machine and i need to ge...

Hi Hony! Tried your C Bios last night. From my opinion its worse than the Ami 1.3. Setting other FSB than 100 is shown correct by post screen, but doesnt change the Clockgen. In CPUID it is always 100Mhz and Benchmarks underline the same. Also my Ghz Celeron is always recognized as a PIII-800. While...

hi!ps47 can u plz translate honys last post? I got some new problems with 1.3 MSI. 1.) The Probs with setting the 133Mhz FSB it hangs while bios saving...Hony is your newest Version on the server and stable? Maybe i will switch back to Ami. Also other FSB Settings are incorrect. 112 shows 117 and so...

Hi Guys, especially ps47 (Hope we meet in icq one time we arent afk:-) ) My Board still runs great. 3rd day now. Soldered HDD-LED Pins now. Played with friends 4 hours together last evening. @Hony whats the consequence of setting wrong fsb? Freeze and then a) it didnt save to bios and restarts with ...

still runs fine...lowered cpu core voltage to 1.7V (still testing if its stable) and added a 12cm Fan cooling the voltage regulation system. Will try V3 overclocking next days. Did every Voodoo3 have 7ns RAM?

Its a coppermine! Maybe ill try undervolting to save some Watts and take care of the caps! The speed limiting factor is the v3 anyway. Ill try speedfan tonight. MB didnt recognize the board and found no sensors .

Tobi

I chatted with Hony yesterday afternoon and he found that there is one big cap from a Taiwan factory that used this wrong electrolytic mixture. Maybe thats the fault. I can´t believe the Bios thing till my own board dies ;-). Is it possible to read out temps/Voltages? Which Program to use? Maybe the...

Hi! Flashed 1.3 half an hour ago and it runs fine. No Problems and all drives recognized. Will try higher FSB next night! Maybe the Problems u had were not bios related (For me there is no real proof). Those Boards are old and if there are f.e. badcaps or something like that would lead them to death...

Hi!
You have any further success?
Is it possible to insert another Bios Chip to make a hot flash backup of the original Packard Bell Bios? Im really interested to flash the msi Bios to get >100Mhz Frontside Bus and options like KB Power On

Greetings from Voodooalert/WM Country Germany
Tobi