I had some spare time to kill so, a full configuration of my Athlon 750 system was in order.
First, some specs:
MB - Epox EP-7KXA
RAM - 384MB PC133
GPU - Geforce 4 MX440 64MB (with a lovely golden PCB no less!)
ODD - NEC DVDRW ND-3540A
HDD - 40GB WDC
PSU - Frontier LC-B400ATX (rebuilt) 400W
NIC - Realtek RTL8139C
Audio - Sound Blaster PCI CT5803
Case - unknown model JNC case (really, had no dice in finding it based on the front panel, at all.)
Now, some photos. I split the HDD down in two partitions, so it's 20GB Win + 20GB Linux.
The case. It's pretty beaten up (at least the screw holes are totally RIP when it comes to screwing the panels down, to the point I have to use PSU fan screws to hold them down.) but otherwise it looks pretty rad, and even comes with a plexiglass panel.
GF4 MX440. I originally had the Radeon 7500 GPU from the Katmai build, but for some unknown reason it kept artefacting ONLY when it would reach Windows and ONLY on this mobo (the Jetway works fine with it, no artefacts)
POST screen. Notice the RAM running at 100MHz. This is because of the PLL chip being incapable of running 133, despite there actually being a jumper just for that setting.
Mandrake/Mandriva Linux 10.1 boot menu. For those wondering about the boot loader, it's LILO, and not GRUB.
Booting into Mandrake 10.1. I had quite some headaches setting this up, mainly because I forgot a USB stick and hand to restart setup to avoid screwing up my USB drive, and forgot disabling the onboard VIA Vinyl soundchip.
XP styled logon screen. Didn't even know Mandrake had this featured in up until now.
Fully booted. As opposed to Windows, getting the Geforce 4 GPU to play nice under Linux with my Samsung TV was an horrible nightmare, and I am not even kidding.
Windows side of software. It was much easier to configure as obviously WinME has support for most of the hardware inside (VIA 686A SB, SoundBlaster, Realtek NIC) except the GPU which I had to install separately.
Fully booted into WinME. So far I have installed KernelEX and Firefox 2.0 and no games yet.
That concludes the configuring of my Slot A machine. Up next will probably either casing the Katmai build with a relatively different config (either a CT4810 or a CT2770, Radeon 7500, RTL8139 and 2k SP4 instead of Me, also a different drive instead of that Deskstar angle grinder) or an reconfiguring of my Slot 1 P3 Coppermine 650MHz machine.
