First post, by foey
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SDS2 Project
Hey guys. I've always been interested in dual processor motherboards and now I've got the retro bug I decided to have a scout on ebay for anything.
I spotted a brand new Intel SDS2 Motherboard in its original box, never used. The bloke who ran the auction also put up a small video of the board. I managed to get it for.... £6 (£1 bid, £5 postage) which I was pleased with! 😊
So parts, I've got a Motherboard but I need the rest.
The Case
I work in IT and built a server for a client of mine back in 2006 in a Antec Titan. Mid-way through last year I replaced and decommissioned it. Since then its been sitting in a store room. I decided to dig it out as It would be perfect for the SDS2 Build! It has a Antec 550w PSU in with the +12 plug for the motherboard.
Its pretty clean, has a couple of scratches on the top but other than that just needed a little clean. He she is, all clean!
The Motherboard
I know what your thinking, Its got no AGP. Your right but it was £6! I plan to get a decent-ish PCI, either a Geforce 6200 or a FX5500 soon.
The board is as advertised brand new. It still has that new hardware smell. The box has only been opened for the auction.
The Build
Motherboard fitted. I replaced the rear case fan with a spare I had.
Onto the CPUs. I bought a couple of 1.4Ghz Intel Pentium III Tualatin processors with original heatsink and fans. The Heatsink and fans were like they had never been used!
I cleaned the CPUs and applied some Artic Silver 5
Can't beat that dual processor heatsink/fan look 😀 😀
I bought 2x512mb ECC Registered RAM from the bay, cost me £6. I plan to add more. Just want to make everything works first.
On to the first boot. This is where I started to have problems...
When the power button was pressed none of the fans sprung into life, instead the board was bleeping at me 1-5-4-4 * I think however after leaving it for 1 minute it all sprang into life.
Everytime I turned the machine off, the same thing happened. It almost needed to be un-plugged, re-plugged wait for two lots of beeps then it would power on. I've just swapped Power supplies, I've connected a 500w Seasonic and it boots up first time. Fingers crossed this has fixed it.
She lives!
Currently I have a DVD-RW drive and a Samsung 160Gb IDE Hard drive connected. I'm hoping I can pickup a SCSI drive before the weekend so I can I have a proper play! Will keep you updated!
Edit :- Just installed Windows XP Pro before I go to bed. It runs well and is very snappy as you would expect for a new installation. I had to boot into VGA mode as I think the O/B Rage XL was trying to match my 22" monitors native resolution which resulted in "out of sync"
Cyrix Instead Build, 6x86 166+ | 32mb SD | 4mb S3 Virge DX | Creative AWE64 | Win95
ATC-S PIII Tualatin Win9x Build :- ATC-S PIII Coppermine Win9x Build Log [WIP] **Photo Heavy**