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Offline Krusty

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Hardware question
« on: October 09, 2004, 01:30:45 AM »
Not AH related, but hardware in general:

Got an old used tower from campus (was going to be trashed anyways).

So basically it's got a 10GB (x2) HD, a Riva TNT type card, a SB PCI 128 something or other, and a PentiumII 400MHz MMX.

Thing is, there were two towers being trashed. I couldn't start them up then and there, so I opened them up. The sound cards seemed different, so I took 'em both. I only took one vid, knowing it was an old box and my current card is better, but I couldn't tell if they had the same CPU speed. It was a 99% sure thing, but I popped out the chip anyways, brought it back, started up, checked RAM test screen and it said 400MHz, just like the original.

I'm going to set this up as a Unix box.

My general question is: Where there ever any dual P2 Slot-processor mobos made? I now have 2x 400mhz but only 1 fits at a time.

My specific question is: Will an STB Velocity 4400 (based on Riva 128 chipset) with I think 16MB have any drivers compatible with Unix? I don't know what is/will be supported.

I don't have unix on it yet. Have to pull the drive, slave to my other comp, format, replace, and then install. It has old NT on it, and I don't have the access codes (it's been sitting around for at least a year, I doubt anybody has them).

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Hardware question
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2004, 07:54:51 AM »
I think Asus Tyan and Supermicro all made dual PII and Dual PII/PIII boards based off the LX and BX chipsets good luck finding them though and be carefull with memmory pc 133 and most large p100 chips are 128bit the lx and bx can only read 64bit so you loose half your mem. I think Ive got a couple of single slot boards for my extra pII 400 and pIII 450 that I want to turn into a linux box.
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