Ah, so the CD drive was bad - too bad....😮) Happy you're getting another, those SCSI cd-roms are very rare now. I have 3 from my Dad's DEC systems, but only 1 works 🤣 - those Toshiba drives DEC used aren't very reliable.
- You can also use any standard IDE CD-ROM and put it in as a slave to the HDD.
- A 153MB HDD is pretty small for a Pentium! Ask if your friend has any bigger SCSI HDDs. We had a Seagate 1GB SCSI Hawk drive preloaded with WfW 3.11, up to 2.1GB should work no problem.
- Or, you can also use any bigger IDE drive up to 2GB, or a much bigger one if you load some overlay BIOS software, such as Seagate or MaxBlast EZ-BIOS. I've used it works pretty well for older machines. I actually have a Promise EIDEMAX ISA card that gives it an 8.4GB Hardware BIOS and a secondary IDE Channel, pretty handy.
- You can also use PATA HDDs up to 127GB if you drop in a Promise ULTRA66 card! Not sure if an ULTRA100 card might work too.
- If you have another 100MHZ Pentium CPU, you can drop it in for dual processing in Win NT 4 or WIn2000! Kingston TurboChip 233MMX chips work great.
- Finally, we loved to max out our machines - you can stick up to 512MB of RAM into these using 128MB 72-pin SIMMs - how about that!
What BIOS version version are you using? I checked my files and I have Version 2.04 Nov 30-1995 - let me know if you need it.
Hope that bit of triva was interesting NIC - Cheers!~ Bellarmine
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