Sutekh94 wrote:

That's how I remember it when I first got it from the dump. Maybe it was upgraded to 64MB (read: memory borrowed from another system) just to install XP before returning the borrowed RAM to its original system. Or the installation files were modified so that the XP installer can run on <64MB.

Why would someone ever do something that silly (forcing XP to run with that little amount of memory)? I'd bet that the system did have another memory stick in there, perhaps a 128MB one, as that makes more sense for a XP machine, but after that system was retired the previous owner took the extra memory stick to upgrade a newer machine.

A P200mmx HP slim line system was in bits scattered in a few places in a an outfit I worked for. Managed to fine most of the pieces -cover, drive cages, psu etc. Originally ran Windows 95 in 32megs of ram. Now it sport 256megs and runs Linux.

The system I'm using now is another work cast of but a P4, with a gig of ram, 8gig hdd and I use it as my main interweb box. Hasn't missed a beat in the time I've had it. The monitor is a repurposed lcd tv. System sports Ibm ps/2 mouse and late 90s ps/2 Genuis keyboard

The Dell runs! It's not problem free however. The RTC runs really fast counting up hours like they were minutes. Probably water damage around the CMOS or RTC circuitry. Nothing I can't fix. I has windows 2000 installed, I'll put win98 on it as soon as I get around to fixing it.

Well, I think the IBM 5150 is a machine that hasn't seen much love in the past. At least, not in the demoscene.
But with 8088 MPH it finally had its moment in the spotlight 😀
People talk about it a lot more as well now. Hopefully we will see some more demos for the platform.

kanecvr wrote:

The RTC runs really fast counting up hours like they were minutes. Probably water damage around the CMOS or RTC circuitry.

Funnily enough, my Dell GXa does the exact same thing whenever the CMOS battery dies.

Scali wrote:

Well, I think the IBM 5150 is a machine that hasn't seen much love in the past. At least, not in the demoscene.
But with 8088 MPH it finally had its moment in the spotlight 😀
People talk about it a lot more as well now. Hopefully we will see some more demos for the platform.

it's true, I snobbed XT systems in the past... but they do have their magic and it was a mistake not to hard all I could 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Fixed the RTC issue by replacing the bios battery. Also, here are the pics I promised:

Looks kind of sad doesn't it? I'll clean the outside soon enough.

Dumped a Voodoo 1 and a AWE64 value in it. 3D performance is disappointing, but I was thinking of using it as a sort of "fast" dos rig.

I'll post some pictures after I clean the outside of the case. 400 grit sandpaper + clorine time 😁

Finished cleaning up the outside.

Before:

After:

Still need to bleach it using peroxide, but I'll save that for a sunny day.

As for the machines final configuration:

CPU: 450MHz PIII running at 300MHz* - that's as fast as it will go on this thing since it's limited to a 66MHz FSB and it won't do multipliers higher than 4.5 so using a celeron chip is pointless
GPU: On board ATi chip + Aopen Voodoo 1
RAM: 128MB Kingston PC100 SD-RAM
HDD: 20GB seagate - the drive I found taped inside it - I'm keeping the 3.2 GB quantum for a 486 machine
ODD: 48x Asus it came with works fine
Sound: Creative AWE64 value

*The PIII is quite a bit faster than the 266MHz PII the machine came with, even at the same speed... the 266Mhz chip was too slow to even run GL_Quake at a pleasant framerate so... I wanted to pun one of my 466MHz socket 370 celerons in it (with a slotket adapter of course) but I can't get them to run faster than 300MHz, and at that speed they are slower then the PIII. Weirdly enough, it detects the celerons as "Pentium PRO" CPUs. The PIII is detected properly but runs at reduced FSB. The PII it came with seems to be unlocked, sice I was able to run it at 333MHz on one of my soyo boards. It is not stable at 100MHz FSB however...

If anyone knows how to mod the 440LX chipset to run at 100MHz, or higher multipliers, I'm all ears.