@dionb: Thank you for the detailed info, anyway, dang, that´s rather sad to read. Got a nice Tbird 1000 and no board to really support it stable and well. What board should I go for the Tbird 1000? Is there any good one at all?

Yes, I am sure I ran the Thunderbird with the AK72 board. I had it running with Debian Linux to do some testing, and the only thing that did crash the system was an openssl benchmark at the Camellia cipher. Everything else worked just fine. Now I barely get to boot the system to this point where I …

Hi, I got a strage problem with my Aopen AK72 Slot A board. An AMD Slot A 1000 Mhz Orion core CPU (the one with dedicated 512KB Cache modules in it´s cartridge) works just fine, no problems, while a Slot-A 1000 Mhz Thunderbird core (with 256 Kb cache on die) crashes (freeze), even in memtest86. I …

Just curious ... how did you get Linux on to the 486 to begin with? I'm having a bear of a time finding a disc that will even boot on my Pentium MMX 200. The latest Gentoo stuff panics pretty much immediately. I wish I could find an old Gentoo repo that still had a distfiles snapshot from around …

I got an ATX power supply along with an AT adapter, as I do it every time. The PSU is a Fractal Design Tesla 1000W. It is the only PSU I own, which does not turn off due to the extremely low power draw of ~ 5 to 10 Watts. I only have PSUs >1000W but that has never been the problem, power is stable, …

I wouldn't trust any 9x/NT system on the public internet, but I'd happily use an old beast running up-to-date Linux to log onto my router or home server to do serious work. Yes, it will be exposed to the internet, most likely having it´s own IPv6 address, so I can do the upgrades in my home-office …

@up - P266MMX - this is completely different architecture. It is much more modern and similar to current CPUs than 486. If the @op would ask about targeting i586 architecture, then my answer would be different :) I am asking for i586 architecture. Like I wrote I got a PentiumOverdrive 80Mhz running …

@up - P266MMX - this is completely different architecture. It is much more modern and similar to current CPUs than 486. If the @op would ask about targeting i586 architecture, then my answer would be different :) I am asking for i586 architecture. Like I wrote I got a PentiumOverdrive 80Mhz running …

This computer is just to old for anything "modern". You will need to recompile the kernel with your own flags, disabling many many features and security flags. The next step would be to rebuild the window manager. Partially right. Like I wrote I currently run Gentoo Linux on it along with a …

Yes, I tried distrowatch already. Most results are unfortunately plain wrong. The distributions call it i486, like debian does, but it´s just a dummy selection, and i686 in reality. I currently got Gentoo running, and there is my problem. I got weird data corruptions, wrong checksums etc. and can …

Hi, I got a Shuttle HOT-433 Rev.3 with 256MB Edo RAM and a modded Award 4.51PG BIOS from 2001 along with large HDD (>127GB) support and an Intel Pentium Overdrive 80Mhz +1MB L2 cache ready and running. My question is: Which modern Linux distribution would work beside Gentoo? Debian ditched 486/586 …

I tried it myself, and yes, it works flawlessly. Excellent job bakemono :sweatdrop: Oddly enough, my board crashes after POST if I have the L2 cache enabled with this 2001 BIOS (at 60MHz FSB anyway). But at the same time, enabling the EDO option causes memory performance to skyrocket to unheard of …

Bakemono, thank you for testing the BIOS file. Here is a direct download link to the file you could not open. The 2A4X5H21C-00 from May 2001 http://kernfusion.at/shuttle_2001_01_05_hot_433_bios_2A4X5H21C-00.rom This should work very well with your Board and is my favourite BIOS for the HOT433 since …

Yes, I tested several different Award BIOS images. Like these ones here: I tested the 433WIE10.BIN from 1995 the 2A4X5H21C-00.rom from 2001 (which came with the Board I bought from ebay) I will upload all images here, so others can make use of them and maybe help me too. The problem is: I can not …

Hi Community, I just joined the community (but read vogons for several years now, just never wrote) But the time has come to change that, because I am stuck with my Shuttle HOT-433 Board´s BIOS. I am trying to include several ROM modules and ACPI tables (yes, really) into the BIOS image for testing …