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Finally got mine in the mail yesterday. Took a long time to clean it and get it working. It didn't post at first but after removing the motherboard and plopping it back, it seems to be working fine. Had to solder in a new CMOS battery, order a replacement CD-ROM drive, and grab more RAM.

Specs are:

Pentium II 333MHz + blank for 2nd CPU
64MB RAM
3.5" floppy drive
6.4GB 7200RPM Seagate Medalist Pro 6530 IDE hard drive
4.5GB 7200RPM IBM DDRS-34560 SCSI hard drive
Onboard Adaptec SCSI
3D Labs Permedia II 8MB AGP video card
Onboard Crystal CS4236B sound card
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 CT4500 ISA sound card
Onboard Intel network card

Pictures galore here https://imgur.com/a/TuQew

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Reply 1 of 10, by anderswk

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Nice!

Two ISA slots and CDROM bezel.. I'm a bit envious! I would happily trade one of my PCI slots for an additional ISA slot.

I assume it came with Win95 installed. Looks nice with the IBM logo in system properties, could I get a copy of your OEM info files?

1991: IBM PS/2 Model 35 SX
1995: IBM Aptiva 2144
1999: IBM IntelliStation M Pro 6889

Reply 2 of 10, by oeuvre

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Sure, thanks! It came with some Windows 98 install for a graphic design company. I just went with a fresh install of 95 on the IDE drive. Once I get the CD-ROM drive, I'll put NT4 on the SCSI drive.

Here are the requested OEMINFO.INI and OEMLOGO files.

[general]
Manufacturer=IBM Corporation
Model=Intellistation M Pro 6898-22U

[Support Information]

http://www.mediafire.com/view/fa6esc09lbdr0mh/OEMLOGO.BMP

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Reply 3 of 10, by anderswk

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Thanks!

1991: IBM PS/2 Model 35 SX
1995: IBM Aptiva 2144
1999: IBM IntelliStation M Pro 6889

Reply 4 of 10, by oeuvre

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And now it sports dual 333MHz Pentium IIs, more RAM (256MB), and just awaiting a TNT2 Pro in the mail. More pictures, some of them were reused. https://imgur.com/a/BFYHp

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Reply 5 of 10, by anderswk

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Looks good. Does it work reliably?

I see you added Windows 95 to the boot menu. I tried manually adding Win98 to boot.ini by saving the boot sector to a file with BootPart, but it just hangs when I select the option at start up. I'm booting from the SCSI drive with NT and have Win98 on an IDE. What did you do?

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1995: IBM Aptiva 2144
1999: IBM IntelliStation M Pro 6889

Reply 6 of 10, by oeuvre

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Works perfectly! No issues. I made a 2GB FAT16 partition for 95 on the IDE drive, installed to that first, then created a 2nd partition (around 4-4.2GB) on that drive as FAT32 for data and games.

Then I plugged in the SCSI hard drive and installed NT4. It handled the rest. Generally when trying to dual boot MS-DOS or 9x, you want to install DOS/9x first then NT/2000/XP/etc. Of course, you could cheat and just use system commander 7 to install 9x after another OS or on another drive.

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Reply 7 of 10, by anderswk

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I see. So you are booting from the IDE drive?

Maybe the problem is that my Win98 is using FAT32 and the NT bootloader doesn't understand that.

1991: IBM PS/2 Model 35 SX
1995: IBM Aptiva 2144
1999: IBM IntelliStation M Pro 6889

Reply 8 of 10, by oeuvre

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Yeah, that's most likely it.

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Reply 9 of 10, by oeuvre

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Okay so now it sports 3 HDs...

6.4GB 7200RPM Seagate Medalist Pro 6530 IDE hard drive with 95
4.5GB 7200RPM IBM DDRS-34560 SCSI hard drive with NT4 Workstation
18.2GB 10000RPM Fujitsu Enterprise MAJ3182MP SCSI hard drive with 2000 Professional

Anything fun or useful that would make use of the dual processors?

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Reply 10 of 10, by chrismeyer6

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You can install quake 3 arena or RTCW under 2000 and use the r_smp 1 console command and make use of the dual cpus. I'm pretty sure that any game based on the quake 3 engine can make use of the dual cpus with that console command.