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Tiger-Heli:
Like PMC said, I got a refurb (hit or miss, though) Shutttle AK38N motherboard from www.newegg.com and highly recommend it, but use the on-board audio and WinMAME so can't really answer your specific Q's.

Sorry.

kahlid74:
You would be hard pressed to find newer motherboards that support PCI bridging in Dos.  Since I haven't seen many right now, your best bet is to talk to some motherboard manufacturer's and find out from them what boards they supply would work with DOS and PCI bridging.

SOmething to note, you are wasting a lot of processor power being in DOS.  As you said you have heard it time and time again, so you already know you are wasting good power, so I won't harp that.

Remember DOS has problems accessing memory more than 256 MB and that it has a lot of overhead when it comes to managing memory greater than 128 MB.

Realize all the extra power you get moving to an OS, you can watch videos on it, you can play PC games on it, and you can even watch DVD's on it.  

You are going to spend countless hours and money looking for a fix to your situation when quite simply you could take 3 hours and CHANGE your situation.

thebrownshow:
Either way, won't I have to throw money at this problem?

If I get a new motherboard that actually supports PCI bridging, I can use my old setup.

If I use my exisiting hardware and do a new setup, I'll have to try something different, I've got an arcade montior using a J-Pac and Advancemame and Advancemenu on a GeForce 256.  If I want to run Windows, it's my understanding that I'll have to get an ArcadeVGA card, correct?

I'm just viewing this whole problem from a "If I'm going to have to buy SOMETHING, why not buy something that'll keep me from having to completely overhaul the whole darn thing?"

Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: thebrownshow on April 16, 2004, 09:41:24 am ---Either way, won't I have to throw money at this problem?

If I get a new motherboard that actually supports PCI bridging, I can use my old setup.

If I use my exisiting hardware and do a new setup, I'll have to try something different, I've got an arcade montior using a J-Pac and Advancemame and Advancemenu on a GeForce 256.  If I want to run Windows, it's my understanding that I'll have to get an ArcadeVGA card, correct?

I'm just viewing this whole problem from a "If I'm going to have to buy SOMETHING, why not buy something that'll keep me from having to completely overhaul the whole darn thing?"

Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it.

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Couldn't you run advanceMAME for windows with your current graphics card?  (I gave up on trying to figure out AdvanceMAME, but I'm just asking?)

thebrownshow:
Can I run advancemame and advancemenu FROM windows on my non-arcadevga graphics card?  I suppose I had always been under the assumption that running windows wasn't possible on my arcade monitor with my graphics card.

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