wiretap wrote on 2020-06-01, 01:55:

Just won this Asus P2B-DS auction with a Make Offer deal for $119. (including RAM and CPU's) Now I can build my dually tually wi […]
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Just won this Asus P2B-DS auction with a Make Offer deal for $119. (including RAM and CPU's) Now I can build my dually tually with two Upgradeware Slot-T slocket adapters. Going to load the beta BIOS, do the multiplier and voltage mods, then it should be good to go. I only have to modify one of my Upgradeware cards since it needs the 0 ohm resistor moved to enable SMP. Apparently my other is good to go from a previous owner since it is a rev 1.0 but already in the correct position.

I suggest trying NT 3.51. The amount of performance is hilarious.

I 2nd trying NT 3.51 just for fun.

Bearking that was a great deal for the case alone and the parts you got are great as well awesome find!!

gdjacobs wrote on 2020-07-01, 23:26:

I suggest trying NT 3.51. The amount of performance is hilarious.

I'll give it a try. I've used NT before (when I worked in a TV studio - the Globalstreams Trinity host used it), but I currently don't have any NT machines at home. It should be fun.

I have 35 motherboards and 75 cards on the way from that same seller I bought all those cards from before.... YAY!

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-07-02, 02:16:

I have 35 motherboards and 75 cards on the way from that same seller I bought all those cards from before.... YAY!

Good luck ! BTW I donated a bunch of my bad boards to him, hope those are not included in the batch 😁
(You do know they get them from someone 🤣): just kidding...

Bought this dual Pentium 3 lot sold as not working 2 months ago, one motherboard contains a matched pair of 1.13ghz Tualatin CPUs, the rest had 1ghz Coppermines

Two of the boards work, one has blown caps and a dead CPU I need to replace on it. Though the coolers got slightly bent up in shipping on the dead board, I'm sure I can straighten them out. Two boards also had a full 512MB installed, which on these boards, require at least two DIMMS installed for a successful POST. either way, fun times on Win2K or XP ahead...

And you can add the ISA slot to them if you want. My dual PIII Tualatin board has PCI and ISA but no AGP.

Horun wrote on 2020-07-02, 02:21:

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-07-02, 02:16:

I have 35 motherboards and 75 cards on the way from that same seller I bought all those cards from before.... YAY!

Good luck ! BTW I donated a bunch of my bad boards to him, hope those are not included in the batch 😁
(You do know they get them from someone 🤣): just kidding...

Heh.

Well, I think this is probably the last of it for now. From the sounds of it he was parting out a bunch of computers that he got from somewhere.

ninkeo wrote on 2020-07-02, 02:45:

Bought this dual Pentium 3 lot sold as not working 2 months ago, one motherboard contains a matched pair of 1.13ghz Tualatin CPU […]
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Bought this dual Pentium 3 lot sold as not working 2 months ago, one motherboard contains a matched pair of 1.13ghz Tualatin CPUs, the rest had 1ghz Coppermines

Two of the boards work, one has blown caps and a dead CPU I need to replace on it. Though the coolers got slightly bent up in shipping on the dead board, I'm sure I can straighten them out. Two boards also had a full 512MB installed, which on these boards, require at least two DIMMS installed for a successful POST. either way, fun times on Win2K or XP ahead...

3 dual boards in one post? Yes please!

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-07-02, 02:54:

And you can add the ISA slot to them if you want. My dual PIII Tualatin board has PCI and ISA but no AGP.

It could very well work, but I'm not that sure all the components are there to drive the ISA slot signaling, since there's a few missing transistors in that area. Could be worth a try just for the lulz on the one needing repair, if you know what I mean.

luckybob wrote on 2020-07-02, 04:18:

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3 dual boards in one post? Yes please!

Some people might have sworn these off because they're VIA Apollo Pro 133T based boards rather than the Intel based equivalents, but to be honest, the working two are stable as a rock even running Win9x on one, and Win2k on the other.

I might do a build thread with either the Coppermine or Tualatin board, however I'm running short of GPUs that aren't MX 440s or 9250s. Might need to invest in a few proper GF4 cards, or maybe even Radeon 9000 series cards.

ninkeo wrote on 2020-07-02, 05:24:

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-07-02, 02:54:

And you can add the ISA slot to them if you want. My dual PIII Tualatin board has PCI and ISA but no AGP.

It could very well work, but I'm not that sure all the components are there to drive the ISA slot signaling, since there's a few missing transistors in that area. Could be worth a try just for the lulz on the one needing repair, if you know what I mean.

I just did exactly that and it works perfectly with my AWE64 Gold.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Just drop me a note if you need any close up pictures of the supporting SMD components.

Just bought an “ASI Aquarius Intel 286-12Mhz PC” from the bay for roundabout 70 Euro, shipping included.

Needs some rework & retro brighting love but it seems to be in a decent condition already.

My first ever 286 😀

Back in the day I worked with 8088, 186, 386, 486, …

CMB75 wrote on 2020-07-02, 06:53:

Just bought an “ASI Aquarius Intel 286-12Mhz PC” from the bay for roundabout 70 Euro, shipping included.

My first ever 286 😀

I'm sorry for making you pay more :x

imi wrote on 2020-07-02, 07:25:

CMB75 wrote on 2020-07-02, 06:53:

Just bought an “ASI Aquarius Intel 286-12Mhz PC” from the bay for roundabout 70 Euro, shipping included.

My first ever 286 😀

I'm sorry for making you pay more :x

Sorry, I snatched it 😉 ...

heh, all good ^^ hope you enjoy it, I was primarily interested in the 2C87 and GPU ^^
make sure to get rid of the battery if there is one asap x3

ninkeo wrote on 2020-07-02, 02:45:

Bought this dual Pentium 3 lot sold as not working 2 months ago, one motherboard contains a matched pair of 1.13ghz Tualatin CPU […]
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Bought this dual Pentium 3 lot sold as not working 2 months ago, one motherboard contains a matched pair of 1.13ghz Tualatin CPUs, the rest had 1ghz Coppermines

Two of the boards work, one has blown caps and a dead CPU I need to replace on it. Though the coolers got slightly bent up in shipping on the dead board, I'm sure I can straighten them out. Two boards also had a full 512MB installed, which on these boards, require at least two DIMMS installed for a successful POST. either way, fun times on Win2K or XP ahead...

Those looks great. I'd like to test some light linux like Lubuntu lxde i686 on those board to see how they would still be capable to run it. I think with a PCI SATA to SSD disk they'd still be good modern home computer. 😁

386SX wrote on 2020-07-02, 10:24:

ninkeo wrote on 2020-07-02, 02:45:

Bought this dual Pentium 3 lot sold as not working 2 months ago, one motherboard contains a matched pair of 1.13ghz Tualatin CPU […]
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Bought this dual Pentium 3 lot sold as not working 2 months ago, one motherboard contains a matched pair of 1.13ghz Tualatin CPUs, the rest had 1ghz Coppermines

Two of the boards work, one has blown caps and a dead CPU I need to replace on it. Though the coolers got slightly bent up in shipping on the dead board, I'm sure I can straighten them out. Two boards also had a full 512MB installed, which on these boards, require at least two DIMMS installed for a successful POST. either way, fun times on Win2K or XP ahead...

Those looks great. I'd like to test some light linux like Lubuntu lxde i686 on those board to see how they would still be capable to run it. I think with a PCI SATA to SSD disk they'd still be good modern home computer. 😁

I'm running period correct SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional on this kind of board without problems and with good performance - it supports gfxboot for a nice setup with 4 OS on one SSD (lilo-rewriting).

CMB75 wrote on 2020-07-02, 10:59:

I'm running period correct SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional on this kind of board without problems and with good performance - it sup […]
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386SX wrote on 2020-07-02, 10:24:

ninkeo wrote on 2020-07-02, 02:45:

Bought this dual Pentium 3 lot sold as not working 2 months ago, one motherboard contains a matched pair of 1.13ghz Tualatin CPU […]
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Bought this dual Pentium 3 lot sold as not working 2 months ago, one motherboard contains a matched pair of 1.13ghz Tualatin CPUs, the rest had 1ghz Coppermines

Two of the boards work, one has blown caps and a dead CPU I need to replace on it. Though the coolers got slightly bent up in shipping on the dead board, I'm sure I can straighten them out. Two boards also had a full 512MB installed, which on these boards, require at least two DIMMS installed for a successful POST. either way, fun times on Win2K or XP ahead...

Those looks great. I'd like to test some light linux like Lubuntu lxde i686 on those board to see how they would still be capable to run it. I think with a PCI SATA to SSD disk they'd still be good modern home computer. 😁

I'm running period correct SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional on this kind of board without problems and with good performance - it supports gfxboot for a nice setup with 4 OS on one SSD (lilo-rewriting).

But even if not period correct, if I had such board I'd stress it a bit with a very modern linux distro and maybe one of the latest 5.x kernel to have all the possible component compatibilities. Obviously lxde is the fastest gui choice I'd make to help the system a bit. 😀
In the past I tested LXDE Ubuntu on a Athlon XP 3200+ and 2GB of ram and SSD and I could even use YouTube at quite good resolution. Obviously linux had no gpu acceleration for videos but OpenGL composition for the web rendering was possible and helped a bit.

Suse Linux 7.3 was my first introduction to Linux and I really loved it

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-07-02, 11:09:

Suse Linux 7.3 was my first introduction to Linux and I really loved it

SuSE Linx 4.4.1 was my first introduction to linux - all those disks - and the learning path from ipfwadmin to ipchains to iptables ... netfilter... fond memories.