Hmm... well in the process of messing with other pinmods to force a multiplier change, I destroyed the bios for my KT3. I just ordered another board and used the bios chip from it in this one, since it has a couple of extra features and heatsinks that I slapped on everything that looked important. I'll be ordering a new bios chip for the one I ordered though it though, so I'll have a spare. I shant be messing with the multiplier anymore, but I did mod the voltage up to 1.85v from 1.35 and now have it running at 24x107=2.57Ghz, with 3GiB of memory at 2-2-5-2-T1, the lowest timings the motherboard would let me set.

So I've got the equivalent of a 3300+ with slow (214mhz) memory. -_-

It is an improvement though, and I might try pulling out some ram if I decide I want to try for more, since I've heard that this board is bad with multiple slots used. The processor's still pretty cold though.

I think I'll grab SFFT's drivers and see how Garrysmod works with 3GiB of memory. Man, that is such overkill. XD

Ok, I've not had luck with selecting motherboards for what I'm trying to do, so I have decided to ask you folks.

I have an ultra low voltage Athlon XP-M (currently pinmodded to 2.4ghz due to my poor motherboard, and still cold ), and a bunch of 3dfx cards with an AGP 3.3v requirement. I would like to know what the best motherboard for overclocking XP-M processors which has support for old 3.3v AGP cards is. I intend to also get an absurdly large amount of DDR memory that can handle a fsb overclock to work with it.

Toss some ideas at me please.

EDIT: It's actually the same motherboard as in my signature, but the fsb thing didn't work out, so it's 24x 100mhz now.

Cool, looking forward to it. =)

I actually broke the installation of windows on that machine by downloading mass effect with a virus. I'll be pulling out the pinmod and reinstalling this weekend probably, and I'll try running Half-Life then.

Do you happen to know what the latest version had that option is?

Huh... it worked for a little while when I put -dxlevel 70 on the launch options, but when I tried to switch it to OpenGL it got stuck in some kind of loop and now I can't get it to work even with -dxlevel 70. The config file isn't working. =/

Aah, I found it. Yeah it was under my profile in steamapps, but hidden away since it's a goldsrc game. I'll try it out in a little bit.

Erm... Where is this cfg folder? Under my user folder in steamapps, or what? You are aware that I'm talking about the steam version that has all the .gcf files that you're not allowed to alter (and still run them with the real steam client), right?

I tried it with both and all it does is flash the menu background, attempt to go fullscreen, and then crash with no error message.

Also, with the source 2007 update that's part of TF2, you get an error that says you need pixel shader version 1.1 to run it. I've tried using 3dAnalyze, but it seems that steam doesn't like it very much. It makes all of my games "unavailable". And I can't force TF2 to run at DirectX 7; it does that same thing that Half-Life does when I try that. No, actually it just crashes out after the "Preparing to Launch Team Fortress 2" window disappears when I do that.

Is there some way to get the Steam version of the original Half-Life to run on a Voodoo 5500? I can get it to open with the 3dfx Community drivers (1.08.04) but I can't change any video settings, and it's very slow.

Also, I'd like to know if there's a driver that supports DirectX 8, because I'm trying to get TF2 to run on my Voodoo. XD

I have V.Control, but I can't remember where you turn off the chip... I think it's on the first tab, but I don't see an option for it.

EDIT: Nvm, found it.

EDIT EDIT: It looks like disabling one chip doesn't change anything either.

Erm... more edit: I tried some different drivers, and it looks like it's just the drivers I was using. It seems to be fine with the newest AmigaMerlin version.

I always get it when running a 3D application, and sometimes just randomly. I can't for the life of me figure out how to disable the second chip though...

Just put it in and installed the 1.08.04 3dfx Community XP drivers, and I keep getting the 0x0000008E STOP code on the BSOD... trying one chip now.

I've tried a clean driver install (removed everything with Driver Cleaner), and tried it in a different system. If works fine in my dad's old PIII with an AGP Pro slot, and fresh drivers don't help either.  I'm going to try it in single mode later today; I have to swap it with the Rage 128 I have in here now.

I currently have the latest BIOS version from MSI. I've looked into this, but I can't seem to find any information on this specific problem.

I think I should note that I'm also using a 35w XP-M 2400+ and am having issues with setting the voltage higher, so it barely boots into windows with the L5 mod I made. It defaults to 100mhz x24 and I have to knock it down to 23x from within windows before I run and applications or it will reboot. After that I can get it to run SuperPi through all 32 million digits with no problem. I'm trying to find a bios version that'll let me change the voltage on an XP-M...

I've not tried using it in single mode, but it occasionally has 2d artifacts on the desktop, crashes when opening Half-Life, gets the BSOD shortly after opening Garry's Mod, randomly reboots, etc... When I plug my x1600 in everything works fine though.