Oyeve
Lifer
I posted this in the HW forum but got no responce. Thought I'd try my luck here.
***ORIGINAL POST***
Heres my dilemma. A couple of weeks ago I did a fresh install of win98 because I like doing this kind of thing. All went ok and all my games worked fine.Anyway, I was installing a slot fan into an empty pci slot but the edge touch something on the MOBO and POW! some contact melted off. I whipped out my trusty old BH6 and was up and running within minutes. Win98se found all the HW and settings for the BH6 so I didnt do a reinstall of win98se. A couple of days later I fixed the ASUS p3v4x and put the mobo back into the case. Win98se did its usual job of finding the HW and all my games worked fine except for Deus ex. The problem is the sound is super choppy and if I play the game in anything higher that 640x480 the thing gets like .00000001 FPS. I removed and reinstalled the game, reinstalled direct x7.0a, reinstalled vid drivers and even reinstalled win98se (over the old installation, no format, just reinstall) but the damn thing still chokes! When I reboot in win2000 (which, by the way wasnt affected by any of the MOBO switches because I didnt boot into 2000) the game plays just fine! Do I need to do a fresh install of win98?
My system is as follows:
P3 650e (should be more than fast enough for this game)
655 megs of ecc cas3 mix of 100mhz and 133mhz mem (way more than enough mem)
ASUS 6800 DLX GeForce ddr video card (should be more than adequate)
48x generic cd-rom
140 gigs UW-scsi HDS (fast enough for this damn game)
SBLIVE! Value (could bad sound drivers slow this game to a crawl?)
Any insight would be appreciated.
BTW, I never overclock.
***ORIGINAL POST***
Heres my dilemma. A couple of weeks ago I did a fresh install of win98 because I like doing this kind of thing. All went ok and all my games worked fine.Anyway, I was installing a slot fan into an empty pci slot but the edge touch something on the MOBO and POW! some contact melted off. I whipped out my trusty old BH6 and was up and running within minutes. Win98se found all the HW and settings for the BH6 so I didnt do a reinstall of win98se. A couple of days later I fixed the ASUS p3v4x and put the mobo back into the case. Win98se did its usual job of finding the HW and all my games worked fine except for Deus ex. The problem is the sound is super choppy and if I play the game in anything higher that 640x480 the thing gets like .00000001 FPS. I removed and reinstalled the game, reinstalled direct x7.0a, reinstalled vid drivers and even reinstalled win98se (over the old installation, no format, just reinstall) but the damn thing still chokes! When I reboot in win2000 (which, by the way wasnt affected by any of the MOBO switches because I didnt boot into 2000) the game plays just fine! Do I need to do a fresh install of win98?
My system is as follows:
P3 650e (should be more than fast enough for this game)
655 megs of ecc cas3 mix of 100mhz and 133mhz mem (way more than enough mem)
ASUS 6800 DLX GeForce ddr video card (should be more than adequate)
48x generic cd-rom
140 gigs UW-scsi HDS (fast enough for this damn game)
SBLIVE! Value (could bad sound drivers slow this game to a crawl?)
Any insight would be appreciated.
BTW, I never overclock.
