Re: MCA card in VLB slot
Posted on 2020-12-01, 09:42
If you do this with the pictured rare MCA sound board it is worse than just burning money. Every Microchannel enthusiast will hate you until your end of days.
Re: What is the loudest hard drive you have???
Posted on 2020-11-26, 09:45
My loudest is an HP C2490 2 GB SCSI drive followed by an IBM 18 GB SCSI Ultrastar. Both drives make noise you immediately want to leave the room. Both are still working fine, but you really do not want to operate any of these.
Re: Pentium Pro VRM compatibility with Klamath VRM?.
Posted on 2020-11-03, 09:58
PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2020-11-02, 21:46: According to the HP Vectra XU 6/XXX Service Handbook the part # is 5063-8794 The same number ist listed by partsurfer.hp.com.
Re: Compaq/HP Restore Plus! Machine check
Posted on 2020-11-03, 09:26
I once had the same Issue with a XW4600, Z400, Z600, Z800 Restore CD despite using the correct media for the machine. The box needed a BIOS update first to get detected correctly. It looks like the installer checks the machine type in BIOS so you will need the matching media for your machine. I …
Re: Does anybody knows how to setup an old Seagate ST-296N scsi1 harddrive 5.25 inch?
Posted on 2020-10-27, 06:19
The drive will work on any of the mentioned controllers (ST-01, AHA154xB/C). I run mine on a 1542B. One thing to consider about the ST-01 ist that this controller can only handle two drives, so a low SCSI like 0 or 1 might be necessary. Setup is different from MFM, RLL or IDE drive. The controller …
Re: Compaq hard drives.
Posted on 2020-10-26, 09:57
Compaq used different drives from all manufaturers, even IBM and HP their greatest competitors delivered drives for Compaq. While most desktop drives have only the Compaq Letters in their firmware drive identication string some server drives contained special firmware features like health data …
Re: Huge Server / Full AT Case - what to use it for?
Posted on 2020-10-22, 06:31
Interesting are the Slot covers on both sides of the Keyboard port, I only saw few motherboards with this config. Perfect match would be a 486 or early Pentium Server Board, eg. AMI Enterprise III or Asus T2P4D(S).
Re: EISA Graphics / Video Cards
Posted on 2020-10-20, 12:28
386_junkie wrote on 2016-01-28, 08:48: A new addition to the family; - Just found the exact same board in my stash. The manual lists !MER2151.cfg as the matching cfg-file
Re: AGP Pro 110 cards
Posted on 2020-10-19, 10:52
The hp visualize FX6+ might play in the same range, but I cannot find an figures on power consumption. ATI Fire GL 4 is pro 50 only.
Re: Why do card manufacturers use each other's model numbers?
Posted on 2020-10-08, 09:59
Reusing typenumbers is common even within the same manufacturer. Ever tried to gather any information on the intel i80860 RISC CPU? Most of your hits will relate to the intel i860 P4 Xeon Rambus chipset.
Re: Is a Voodoo 2 worth the cost
Posted on 2020-10-08, 07:57
Looks like I have to sell my V1 boards to afford another Miro Highscore II SLI? I remember the 5-10 € prices in Germany well, cause that was the price I payed for mine. Even for V2 I did not pay any more. Next I will flood the market with homemade cheap SLI cables.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-09-30, 05:58
Digged in my cellar for some machines I plan to swap - Compaq Systempro LT (386 junkie is waiting for the case for ages allready) - Tatung Sparc workstation (swap for a sun blade 1000) - IBM 7011-250 Powerpc (swap for a Mac Pro dual Xeon) Found some parts I allready forgot I own - EISA graphic card …
Re: Picked up a couple of interesting PCs, what to do...
Posted on 2020-09-22, 09:20
Due to the reason it is dual CPU and has enough RAM I wouldnt bother with Win 9x but would go w2k or even XP instead. As some others allready mentioned the early Netburst RDRAM combo is indeed collectible due to the reason both technologies were major failures. Professional workstations are usually …
Re: Softpaq diagnostic setup disk for 386/25e wanted.
Posted on 2020-09-10, 09:59
1 and 4 MB memory boards for the 386e and 386s were made by Compaq and Kingston, while the modules were made by other vendors too. I own even modules equipped with SIP modules instead of DIP. I still have to dig for my spares.
Re: Discussion of 64-bit PCI vs. PCI-X. Confusion abounds!
Posted on 2020-08-05, 08:03
Dont mess up the physical 64 bit PCI slot with the communication standards PCI 64 and PCI-X. It should be possible to run a PCI-X card in a 64 Bit (3.3V) PCI 66 MHz slot if it it even working in a 32 bit slot. Just bandwith will be reduced to 66 MHz bus clock compared to up to 533 MHz on PCI-X. The …
Re: Need help with 286 Tandon TM7521
Posted on 2020-08-04, 07:53
From the location it is most probably a kind of proprietary memory expansion slot. I might have to look in the manual of my PAC 286 for confirmation. The board looks pretty similar.
Re: Pentium Pro with >4GiB RAM?
Posted on 2020-07-30, 10:26
The Proliant 5000 (R) with the EDO RAM updated memory boards was able to hold 8 of the beforementioned T-shaped 256 MB sticks on each of his two memory boards resulting in the 4 GB total memory. https://www.cnet.com/products/compaq-proliant-5000r-ppro-200-mhz-128-mb-0-gb/ I did not try this myself …
Re: SCSI hard disk set capacity
Posted on 2020-07-30, 09:40
Yes, I remember 2.1 GB SCSI drives being sold for Unix workstation with a (boot-) disk size limit of 2 GB. Probably some older HP 9000/700 or Sun Sparcstation, or it was just an OS limit. The vendor asked about 10 bucks for this extra service, above to the price of the disk, but I need to check if …
Re: Socket 4 Micronics M5PE two IC´s missing,
Posted on 2020-06-23, 09:49
Is this an IBM PC Server 300? I thougt mine had an IBM motherboard installed, but I did not look inside for years. http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/eprm/eprm3/f7957.htm Got this same ECS board too.
Re: Help me identify these COAST modules
Posted on 2020-06-23, 09:17
Compaq used 168-pin EDO in some of their Proliant servers. HP and IBM did use them in some of their desktop systems as well. Namely the HP Vectra XU 200 or the IBM PC 330. They come in different voltages 3.3 V and 5 V and use buffers often.
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