Hacksaurus

Hacksaurus is a retro gaming PC build. The original idea was to hack together a machine with spare parts that is able to natively run many DOS and Win9x era games. But it went so well that I also treated it to some (at the time) modern parts in order to make it more enjoyable & reliable.

Components as of August 2018

Type	Component
Mainboard	Gigabyte GA-6BXC rev. 1.9
CPU	Pentium II 400 MHz
RAM	256 MB SDRAM
Graphics card	3Dfx Voodoo 3 3500 TV with BIOS 3.15.12 (previously: 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000)
Storage	32 GB Trancend SSD via P-ATA to S-ATA adapter
Optical drive	NEC CD/DVD drive
Floppy drive 1	5.25" TEAC FD-55GFR
Sound card	Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold (previously: Creative Sound Blaster SB32 ISA PnP with 8 MB 30-pin SIMM)
External MIDI	Roland SC-88 Pro and midipi
Keyboard	Cherry G84-4100
Mouse	Lenovo Scrollpoint Mouse (31P7405)
Gameport	Gravis Gamepad Pro and Gravis Xterminator Gamepad
USB gamepad	PS3/XBox360 controllers or Mad Catz Fightstick Pro
Display	Extron HDMI-RGB_300_A or VGA to HD TV
Case	Midi tower Cooler Master Elite RC-330K and Akasa FC06 V2 fan controller
PSU	Artic Cooling Arctic Fusion 550R

BIOS

Settings

BIOS V.F4c bold are changed from PERFORMANCE DEFAULTS.

• STANDARD CMOS SETUP
  • Date (mm:dd:yy): Mon, Dec 20 2021
  • Time (hh:mm:ss): 21 : 55 :23
  • Primary Master: Auto 0M 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO
  • Primary Slave: None 0M 0 0 0 0 0 ------
  • Secondary Master: Auto 0M 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO
  • Secondary Slave: None 0M 0 0 0 0 0 ------
  • Drive A: 1.2M , 5.25 in.
  • Drive B: None
  • Floppy 3 Mode Support: Disabled
  • Video: EGA/VGA
  • Halt On: No Errors
• BIOS FEATURES SETUP
  • Virus Warning: Disabled
  • CPU Internal Cache: Enabled
  • External Cache: Enabled
  • CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking: Disabled
  • Quick Power On Self Test: Enabled
  • CPU Update Data: Enabled
  • Boot From LAN First: Disabled (default enabled)
  • Boot Sequence: C only (default C,A,SCSI)
  • Swap Floppy Drive: Disabled
  • VGA Boot From: AGP
  • Boot Up Floppy Seek: Disabled
  • Boot Up NumLock Status: Off
  • Gate A20 Option: Fast
  • Typematic Rate Setting: Enabled
  • Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec): 30
  • Typematic Delay (Msec): 250
  • Security Option: Setup
  • PCI/VGA Palette Snoop: Disabled
  • Assign IRQ For VGA: Enabled
  • OS Select For DRAM > 64MB: Non-OS2
  • HDD S.M.A.R.T. capability: Disabled
  • Report No FDD For WIN 95: Yes
  • Video BIOS Shadow: Enabled
• CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP
  • EDO CASx# MA Wait State: 1
  • EDO RASx# Wait State: 1
  • SDRAM CAS latency Time: Auto
  • DRAM Data Integrity Mode: None-ECC
  • System BIOS Cacheable: Enabled
  • Video BIOS Cacheable: Enabled
  • Video RAM Cacheable: Disabled
  • 16 Bit I/O Recovery Time: 1
  • AGP Aperture Size (MB): 64
  • Memory Hole At 15M-16M: Disabled
  • Delayed Transaction: Disabled
  • Spread Spectrum: Disabled
• POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP
  • Power Management: Enable
  • PM Control by APM: Yes
  • Video Off Method: DPMS
  • Suspend Mode: Disable
  • HDD Power Down: Disable
  • VGA Active Monitor: Disabled
  • Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN: Instant-Off
  • System After AC Back: Soft-Off
  • CPUFAN Off in Suspend: Enabled
  • PME Event Wakeup: Disabled
  • ModemRingOn/WakeOnLan: Disabled (default Enabled)
  • Resume by Alarm: Disabled
  • IRQ[3-7,9-15],NMI: Disabled (default Enabled)
  • Primary IDE 0: Disabled
  • Primary IDE 1: Disabled
  • Secondary IDE 0: Disabled
  • Secondary IDE 1: Disabled
  • Floppy Disk: Disabled (default Enabled)
  • Serial Port: Disabled (default Enabled)
  • Parallel Port: Disabled
• PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION
  • PNP OS Installed: Yes
  • Resources Controlled By: Manual
  • Reset Configuration Data: Disabled
  • IRQ-3 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
  • IRQ-4 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
  • IRQ-5 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
  • IRQ-7 assigned to: Legacy ISA
  • IRQ-9 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
  • IRQ-10 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
  • IRQ-11 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
  • IRQ-12 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP (default Legacy ISA)
  • IRQ-14 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP (default Legacy ISA)
  • IRQ-15 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP (default Legacy ISA)
  • DMA-0 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
  • DMA-1 assigned to: Legacy ISA (default PCI/ISA PnP)
  • DMA-3 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
  • DMA-5 assigned to: Legacy ISA (default PCI/ISA PnP)
  • DMA-6 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
  • DMA-7 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
  • Used MEM base addr: N/A
  • Assign IRQ For USB: Enabled
• INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS
  • IDE HDD Block Mode: Enabled
  • IDE Primary Master PIO: Auto
  • IDE Primary Slave PIO: Auto
  • IDE Secondary Master PIO: Auto
  • IDE Secondary Slave PIO: Auto
  • IDE Primary Master UDMA: Auto
  • IDE Primary Slave UDMA: Auto
  • IDE Secondary Master UDMA: Auto
  • IDE Secondary Slave UDMA: Auto
  • On-Chip Primary PCI IDE: Enabled
  • On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE: Enabled
  • USB Keyboard Support: Disabled
  • Onboard FDC Controller: Enabled
  • Onboard Serial Port 1: Disabled (default 3F8/IRQ4)
  • Onboard Serial Port 2: Disabled (default 2F8/IRQ3)
  • Onboard Parallel Port: Disabled (default 378/IRQ7)
  • PS/2 Mouse Power On: Disabled
  • Keyboard Power On: Disabled

OS PnP settings

anything not listed is set to auto/default

Component	Settings
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold PCM	based on basic config 0001: IRQ 7; DMA 1,5; IO 220-22F, 330-331, 388-38B (seems to give good compatibility with older SB games)
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold MIDI	based on basic config 0000: IO 620-623, A20-A23, E20-E23
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold Gameport	auto/default (based on basic config 0000: IO 200-207)