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I have just installed Windows Millennium, for the first time. I put it on a Gigabyte 7IXE4 mobo. It uses the AMD Irongate chipset. (Sorry, I put Ironbridge in the pic.) The Gigabyte support webpage tells me that the max this mobo can accept is the 1500+ rated Palomino. This'll give you 1.3 GHz @ 100 FSB. If you max the mobo's FSB jumpers to 115 FSB, this CPU won't work because the 1500+ can't cope with that speed. If you ignore Gigabyte's advice, and go ahead and install a 2100+ Palo CPU, you can use the board at 115 FSB, and it's rock stable.
I installed a Hercules 4500 video card, then a Terratec EWS64XL sound card. Everything seems to work OK. Inside Windows ME, I installed 2 soundsets from the following webpage:
http://www.studio4all.de/htmle/main37.html (GSSBK320.TTS and DRUMKITS.TTS)
I ran Doom, and made a recording here. Edit: This recording sounds all wrong. I made another one here. (End Edit.)
I had one problem with this hardware set up. It all acted OK, until I rebooted. After that, it went nuts. I had delayed music, and constantly repeated sound effects. I fixed all of these problems by putting the sound card in the other ISA slot! BTW, in the pic you can see 2 cables on the sound card. They go to a break out box. Inside the break out box, you can attach a wavetable daughterboard. I'm not sure if it works in "pure" DOS, but you can load up the stick of RAM with a sound bank for "pure" DOS use. However, I don't know if it's limited to just one soundset file.
Edit, question: This webpage mentions that you can upgrade the stick of RAM to 64MB, and work with sound sets of 32MB in size. Please can someone tell me where I can download such a file? Also, is there a MB limit to this sound set, for use in DOS?