Christian Ney Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Setup: 2x PIII 866Mhz Slot1 Up to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SCSI drives + the RDram(aka Rambus) expander I already showed on the ROG expander thread. Woot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 (edited) hum finally seems RDRam is not really faster than SDRam, quite but not as much Useless for bench, but I can build a funny server I know that you will for sure read this thread, can you add this board please : XU800 from HP: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1703032 thx Edited March 10, 2011 by Christian Ney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 (edited) hum found an UltraSparc III from Sun, but unfortunately I haven't taken the whole server, only the board/cpu/memory. And this S**** only reconize magic ID of original drives, so atm impossible to boot. Damn Edited March 10, 2011 by Christian Ney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSwizz Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Can't you manually force it to boot from whatever drive you choose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 (edited) I haven't managed to access the BIOS Edited July 30, 2011 by Christian Ney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSwizz Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Press the key marked "interrupt", break (or something similar. I suppose you have a french keyboard for that thing?) + the "A" key.That gives you access to the ROM. Hopefully it is not locked/password protected. If it is you will have to figure out how to bypass that. Once you have full access you can boot whever device you want. Do some googling for a guide how to install Linux on a SPARC system and you'll figure out what to do :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 (edited) thx for the hint, I will check what you said. Yes I have the pause/break button. Yes linux for sure, but if I want to bench, I need windows NT. Afaik it's impossible to install windows XP on it Edited March 10, 2011 by Christian Ney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Turrican Posted March 10, 2011 Crew Share Posted March 10, 2011 pretty nice, good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSwizz Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 (edited) thx for the hint, I will check what you said. Yes I have the pause/break button. Yes linux for sure, but if I want to bench, I need windows NT. Afaik it's impossible to install windows XP on it No Microsoft OS support any of the SPARC (sub)architectures. You will have use some sort of emulation if you want to run win32 applications. Linux might not be the best choice either support for SPARC proabably isn't very good these days (Linux has very good documentation though. That is why I mentioned it :-). Edit: If you want to do some bencharking on a cool non-x86 architecture you should buy an early Alpha system. Windows NT 4.0 has support for Alpha and DEC made an emulator called FX!32 that will allow you to run win32 applications. :-) Hopefully at least one or two benchmarks will work on the Alpha. Edited March 10, 2011 by DrSwizz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 Yep, one of my freind's father has got a DEC Alpha under NT 4.0 I still wait to bench it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSwizz Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Yep, one of my freind's father has got a DEC Alpha under NT 4.0I still wait to bench it Cool! :-) I'm curious too see what benchmarks you will be able to run on it and what the performance will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Antinomy Posted March 10, 2011 Crew Share Posted March 10, 2011 No OC options, right? Make a photo of the board - I wanna know what it looks like. I only know one board of such kind - the Intel OR840. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 Here are the pics, as I took big pics, I will only link them and not put them here, cause 18MB to load is much(here for me ). With the LCD Poster btw you can diagnose the board from the LCD Poster using buttons. [/img] I put only one CPU here, cause I don't remember where I let the VRM module for the second CPU So I fit the ''.......'' on the second CPU Slot Last pic showing the board with the RDram Expander: Btw I have a score better of 13s under SuperPi than on my SDRam setup, but it's still slower than with Overclocking, so it's useful only if you plan to get good scores without OC, or if you find a board that can be OC with Rambus on Slot 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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