NOOOOOOO...must...play...pacman....

[Nerd Of Nerds]

Hi

the other day i decided to start working on my mame machine again. since my laptop power supply died i haven't had a computer to put in it... but i went out and bought a power supplyjust to find that one of my motherboards was dead....i found another one and started working on that, it was quite a chore since i didn't have a cd drive for drivers and the like... after working on that for about 3 hours i finally got mame32 on it and was about to load asteroids and the computer reset and went to the bios screen and stopped working, i reset it, it didn't get into windows, i tried again, i got into windows and the the graphics got all screwy... and it froze... now it doesn't start at all, and i had proper cooling for it i am currently using a pentium 100 that can BARELY run pacman without sound

does anyone have ANY idea wtf is wrong with this board? is it the graphics card? is it the processor?

i am getting desperate to play some pacman and double dragon...

[krick]

Look for "swollen" or leaking capacitors on the board.

[menace]

for a pentium 100, use vantage or an older build of mame--will run it flawlessly--newer mame builds are more processor intensive, I assume mame32's GUI needs some more horsepower as well.

[Nailz]

Like Menace said, older version of Mame, ditch Mame32 and try to run it in DOS if you can on something like ArcadeOS.