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First post, by MMG

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Hello guys
I just got a IBM-7024 PowerPc from 1996-7(?),my knowledge about this type of PC's are not so...much...
When i powering up,its have an error code on the built in small display what show "FEB" error code.
I did some research,some source say its some kind of firmware or bios problem,need some Floppy with recovery image.
If this FEB mean this,where i get that type of recovery image for that IBM?
I tried search,but no luck at all.
If somebody know something about this beast,please help me 😀

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Reply 1 of 7, by MMG

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And some image from stuffs what had inside.
CPU card(not even know yet what is it..):

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Other cards:

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Reply 2 of 7, by akimmet

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You have an IBM RS/6000 series workstation. If you aren't already aware these machine are not in any way PC compatible.
While I have some experience with SGI and Sun workstations, I don't have much experience with these machines. Nor am I familiar with AIX, the UNIX operating system for these machines.
You are more likely to find useful help on other forums that specialize in UNIX workstations.

Reply 3 of 7, by VivienM

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akimmet wrote on 2024-08-06, 15:31:

You have an IBM RS/6000 series workstation. If you aren't already aware these machine are not in any way PC compatible.
While I have some experience with SGI and Sun workstations, I don't have much experience with these machines. Nor am I familiar with AIX, the UNIX operating system for these machines.
You are more likely to find useful help on other forums that specialize in UNIX workstations.

I know very little about the non-Apple side of PowerPC, but could you run NT for PPC on these? Or are these AIX-and-maybe-some-BSD/Linux distros only?

Reply 4 of 7, by akimmet

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Some of these machines could run NT4, but supported configurations were fairly specific and limited.

Reply 5 of 7, by eisapc

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As written before this is a Unix workstation intended to run AIX (IBMs flavour of Unix).
As it is PCI allready it might be possible to run some PPC Linux on it as well.
Documentation can be found here:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power4?topic=syst … 000-7024-series

Reply 6 of 7, by hyoenmadan

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These days people is getting NT4 for PPC to run even in Big Endian only machines who never ever were meant to run NT4 in the first place, as it is an Little Endian OS.
If it still uses the MPC-104 memory controller, maybe someday, someone can port the maciNTosh (ELF) loader and the HAL to your machine. The rest of the peripherals seems pretty standard at the day, and the NT4 disk had drivers for these.

Reply 7 of 7, by davidrg

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akimmet wrote on 2024-08-06, 23:03:

Some of these machines could run NT4, but supported configurations were fairly specific and limited.

The NT 4.0 HCL lists these as being compatible:

  • IBM RISC System/6000 7024 Model E20 Server 604/100
  • IBM RISC System/6000 7024 Model E30 Server 604/133

The pictured CPU card is a 133Mhz PowePC 604 so it may well be NT-compatible. Assuming the owner can get it to boot of course.

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