TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[MaxiPro800]

New BIOS to work!
It's the BIOS from a Foxconn 865A01-G-6LS,Phoenix-Award BIOS.
Next to test:
-Foxconn 865M01-PE-6ELS

 

[MaxiPro800]

Another BIOS to work!
Here's the list of all BIOSes that work until now:

1.PMC Pm49FL004T-33JCE - EPoX 4PGM2I (I need to find the latest BIOS,and I'll add the edited Zone-Tan pic)
2.PMC Pm49FL004T-33JC - AOpen AX4SG-UL
3.SST 49LF004A - Foxconn 865A01-G-6LS
4.SST 49LF004A - ABIT IS7-V (848P)
5.SST 49LF004 - DFI 848P-AL

 

[Ruru]

No was talking about Socket A boards. But that is what I was thinking also, most of the high end Socket A boards had 4 memory slots.

You're right, some the last VIA based motherboards had dualchannel and 4 slots. But as far as I know, nF2 boards had 2 or 3 slots, dunno why.

Still haven't tested that 2900GT or the Asus S754 board, been too lazy and there's been all kind of sad shit with me and my girl But now things are better and maybe I'll test it in a few days.

With my luck I broke the S754 Athlon when I delidded it.

 

[Ruru]

Nah man, it is/was a Newcastle... Those pieces of crap OC pretty bad.

 

[Random Murderer]

Nah man, it is/was a Newcastle... Those pieces of crap OC pretty bad.

Oh yeah they do. Hated mine, 210 was max stable FSB.

 

[Backfire]

 

[Random Murderer]

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Teaser?

 

[Backfire]

yep

 

[Random Murderer]

yep

Well, you've managed to pique my interest. I can't wait to what this "Colossus" is.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Back with more BIOSes to work:
1.Albatron ABOX 865G (NIC doesn't work,I edited it to have the right LOM file in it and I have to test it now)
2.Supermicro P4SPA+ (NIC works on this one,it's also the source of the LOM file)
3.ECS PF3 Extreme (without RAID BIOS and NIC ROMs,also edited now to have a Intel NIC LOM file so it can work on my P4P800-VM)

From those BIOSes,the first 2 are the fastest I could ever see.
I'll upload a new pack of Award BIOSes for the P4P800-VM,with Intel NICs in them later.

 

[Ruru]

Oh yeah they do. Hated mine, 210 was max stable FSB.

But Venice is the real A64 which I loved... With my old MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum my 3000+ ran 2.7GHz 24/7 with BOXED, that damn nF3 Ultra MB toke over 300FSB stable


Man I still miss it.. :3

edit: Backfire, when u post a cool teaser like that, the stuff you're gonna post must be something damn sweet! I'm just getting another beer.

 

[Random Murderer]

But Venice is the real A64 which I loved... With my old MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum my 3000+ ran 2.7GHz 24/7 with BOXED, that damn nF3 Ultra MB toke over 300FSB stable


Man I still miss it.. :3

edit: Backfire, when u post a cool teaser like that, the stuff you're gonna post must be something damn sweet! I'm just getting another beer.

I wanted a Venice core but didn't have the money at the time

 

[Ruru]

I wanted a Venice core but didn't have the money at the time

Me neither, in 2005 when i was 15 I had a Thunderbird 1GHz @ 1404MHz, got that Venice in late 2006 when I was 16. It was damn good CPU with those 2.7GHz clocks, I ran benchmarks @ 2.8GHz. Pretty sweer, 1GHz overclock and with a boxed cooler.

 

[GreiverBlade]

hehehe ... my sealed A64 is a Venice

and in 2005 i was 24 we just have 9yrs difference 9700 Pro

 

[xvi]

Stumbled across this gem while looking for a Win2K Server disc.

Edit: Yes, I know it's 2014. Yes, I know I'm doing a fresh install. Yes, I know my phone is 4-5 times faster than the P3 733MHz in this thing. That doesn't stop head honcho from having me put it in to production.

 

[Ruru]

hehehe ... my sealed A64 is a Venice

and in 2005 i was 24 we just have 9yrs difference 9700 Pro

Nah, not bad, I have a close friend who is 1yr younger than you

 

[GreiverBlade]

ok i am bored while waiting on my pieces for my next main rig ... so i did setup the Workstation as a main but i wanted to try something ...

i did put the Integra R2 650w in the Nemesis build so 300w more than the previous one
2125 (2800+) to 2187-2192 (3200+) well what was hindering the OC was the PSU? humpf i need to upgrade the old bag xD

currently using the Nemesis as a main rig

 

[_JP_]

Yes, I know it's 2014. Yes, I know I'm doing a fresh install. Yes, I know my phone is 4-5 times faster than the P3 733MHz in this thing. That doesn't stop head honcho from having me put it in to production.

That OS is great for an "off-the-grid" server.

 

[Ruru]

Nah, who gives a crap about smartphones when messing around with retro hardware, screw those phones..

Windows 2000 Pro was the best OS I've ever used, too bad it's support stopped much before than XP's.

 

[Random Murderer]

Nah, who gives a crap about smartphones when messing around with retro hardware, screw those phones..

Windows 2000 Pro was the best OS I've ever used, too bad it's support stopped much before than XP's.

2000 Pro was/is damn good, but I must say that the best Windows OS I've ever used was 3.11 for Work Groups. The worst? A close tie between 8 and ME. Although, I did love ME at the time; it had such bad compatibility that not even most viruses were compatible with it.
And before I start a flame-war by saying 8 is one of the worst Windows I've ever used, I'm a firm believer in Moneysoft's tick-tock cycle. Their tick usually sucks, their tock is usually very close to the corresponding tick, but works as intended. If they keep that up, Win 9(or whatever they name it) should be spectacular.
Examples of each:
Ticks: 3.1, 95, ME, Vista, 8
Tocks: 3.11, 98, 2000, 7, 8's successor

Also, if you want the most solid Windows ever put together, there's a community project that combined the best features of ME, CE, and NT. It's called Windows CE.ME.NT., because it's always frozen

 

[GreiverBlade]

Nah, who gives a crap about smartphones when messing around with retro hardware, screw those phones..

heyyy ... my Smartphone have a Atom single core HT 2.0ghz and 1gb RAM ... uh? my smartphone is more powerful than the netbook of my mother??? holy cow ... (its a 2012 Razr i model ... 2yrs in smartphone can be nostalgic? naahhh it still perform like a middle range 2014 smartphone )

aaaaannnddd crash ... 30min stable really need a new HSF

 

[Random Murderer]

95 - Nah
98 - Good, after SE release
ME - Crap
2000 - Good
XP - Good, after SP2
Vista - Nah, usable after SP2
7 - Masterpiece
8 - Get out of my eyes. Worst OS ever. Unstable, ugly, incopatible.

Tick tock, tick tock, Clarice...

 

[Ruru]

95 - Nah
98 - Good, after SE release
ME - Crap
2000 - Good
XP - Good, after SP2
Vista - Nah, usable after SP2
7 - Masterpiece
8 - Get out of my eyes. Worst OS ever. Unstable, ugly, incopatible.

My thoughts exactly!

Greiver, what's the exact model of your 462 mobo? If it has the holes near the socket then a Zalman 7000Cu would be a killer one, I had an Alcu on my 2600+ & DFI KT600-AL and it kept the CPU cool

 

[MaxiPro800]

2000 Pro was/is damn good, but I must say that the best Windows OS I've ever used was 3.11 for Work Groups. The worst? A close tie between 8 and ME. Although, I did love ME at the time; it had such bad compatibility that not even most viruses were compatible with it.
And before I start a flame-war by saying 8 is one of the worst Windows I've ever used, I'm a firm believer in Moneysoft's tick-tock cycle. Their tick usually sucks, their tock is usually very close to the corresponding tick, but works as intended. If they keep that up, Win 9(or whatever they name it) should be spectacular.
Examples of each:
Ticks: 3.1, 95, ME, Vista, 8
Tocks: 3.11, 98, 2000, 7, 8's successor

Also, if you want the most solid Windows ever put together, there's a community project that combined the best features of ME, CE, and NT. It's called Windows CE.ME.NT., because it's always frozen

95 - nope,not even using it because IE on it is older than a Atari 2600
NT 4.0 - Good,basically is 95 but more stable and uses NTFS
98 - Also good,but that's if you have a old system (like a Pentium MMX with 64 or 128MB RAM)
2000 - Another good system,and I wish it still had support today.
ME - Also good if you know maintaining it.I've personally used ME on a Pentium MMX with 96MB RAM and it was working exactly like 98SE.(no joke)
XP - Good until SP2. SP3 literally sucks.
Vista - A no-no for the retail version but the beta is fairly alright,minus sound.
7 - gold itself
8 - Microsoft is on drugs or what?That's the ugliest system I've seen.It's as if some 1st grade projected the interface.
9 - I dunno

 

[Ruru]

Also, why MS decided to get rid of Aero with Win8, it looks uglier than Win95 if you ask me. IMO Vista was ok if there was enough horsepower inside the case, a 3.2GHz C2D with 4GB RAM ran it as smooth as Win7. But basically Vista is like "Win7 beta".