aries-mu wrote:Wow man!
You got a dual!!
Drooling
Do you also have the riser card for the slots? I wonder what brand? And what slots would come […]
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Intel486dx33 wrote:I been wanting to build a dual Pentium pro build but they are rare today and expensive.
Wow man!
You got a dual!!
Drooling
Do you also have the riser card for the slots? I wonder what brand? And what slots would come on it?
Wow, it "ONLY" wants ECC EDO RAM! Kind of picky, isnt' it?
I have one of those boards(*). It's from a Compaq ProLiant 800 - but the board in Intel486's picture seems to have lost it's CMOS battery socket.
It's a quirky machine in a few ways, and I'm not sure it can be tamed for enjoyable desktop use.
The biggest problem with it is that it's picky about video cards. The card that came with it is a Cirrus Logic PCI (CL-GD5480 I think?) with 1MB. And you can't just swap whatever you want - it won't POST.
I remember reading a discussion a long time ago where people were trying to find other video cards that would work with this board. I think people found 1 or 2 other cards that worked but they didn't figure out the reason why.
The power supply is proprietary, and mine died. But maybe the pinout is documented somewhere and could be adapted to a standard PSU.
* = Actually I have two of them. But I ruined the first board when I hotplugged a keyboard. That was when I learned not to do that. I would guess it just burned out a fuse or something, but I never could find what blew so I bought another.
That was back when Pentium Pro stuff was just old. When I bought the 2nd board for about $10, the seller looked through his junk and filled the board with RAM, a pair of 200MHz 512KB CPUs, matching VRMs, and matching heatsinks. I said thanks and he was like "no prob".
It was worthless and he wanted rid of it all. I should have bought him out. But it was worthless.