The riser board ... Leave it out or unpowered and the Aptiva doesn't boot. What does that remind you of?
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@twix: I dont now... well actually this particular aptiva runs w/o riser board perfectly - I flashed it to the newest bios version and this is the cause... ??
@miod: thanks! ^^
@miod: thanks! ^^
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You never know with things like that... my O2 was not supposed to boot without the PCI riser and it has no problems if you remove it. I found it the other day, when I was upgrading the CPU
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R12000A 400 Mhz ; 1 Gb RAM ; 72 Gb 15K HDD; IRIX 6.5.29
CrystalEyes; Dial Box; O2Cam "ZEYE"; external Toshiba SD-M1711 DVD-ROM; Octane speakers;
Lock bar; SGI microphone.
Mods: PSU Noctua fan; internal Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM; Adaptec AIC-7880P SCSI card.
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Seasonic X 1250W PSU / Intel I7 2600k 4 x 5,00 Ghz / 2 x Gainward 2Gb GTX 560Ti Phantom 2 / 32 Gb DDR3 / Intel x25-M 160 Gb SSD and 2 x 1,5 Tb HDDs
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C-E: ah you reminded me of what twix meant with his hint:
Yes, an O2 needs the riser board to boot - at least they say so. I never tried to power it on without one...
Yes, an O2 needs the riser board to boot - at least they say so. I never tried to power it on without one...
Mine works perfectly fine, but I did not try to connect it to internet before putting the riser back
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Betty Blue
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R12000A 400 Mhz ; 1 Gb RAM ; 72 Gb 15K HDD; IRIX 6.5.29
CrystalEyes; Dial Box; O2Cam "ZEYE"; external Toshiba SD-M1711 DVD-ROM; Octane speakers;
Lock bar; SGI microphone.
Mods: PSU Noctua fan; internal Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM; Adaptec AIC-7880P SCSI card.
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Seasonic X 1250W PSU / Intel I7 2600k 4 x 5,00 Ghz / 2 x Gainward 2Gb GTX 560Ti Phantom 2 / 32 Gb DDR3 / Intel x25-M 160 Gb SSD and 2 x 1,5 Tb HDDs
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2 x Intel Xeon MP Gallatin 3,00 Ghz with 4 MB cache / Zotac 512Mb GT430 / 12 Gb DDR266 ECC / 4 x Maxtor Atlas 146GB 10K V U320
So I upgraded the Aptiva some months ago with a Kingston Petium 233MHz MMX - module and a new harddrive. Great for all MS-DOS apps. Runs even GLQuake in 1280x1024 under Windows NT smoothly.
Cool! What's next? SSD drives?
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hamei wrote:
Seems to me the mainboard was the same as the PC server 325, which could run OS/390 with an addin board ? Kjaer probably knows ....
PCI P/390 works with PC Server 325, yes. But you have to run OS/2.
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twix wrote:
Cool! What's next? SSD drives?
I actually thought about that, but then I got myself for the Aptiva a new old stock Maxtor 2B020H1 (replaces the used-up 540MB Maxtor with FRU-number) from eBay. Silent and fast.
The very last thing one could do is to get another one of this precious cache modules and 128MB EDO RAM...
I'll keep an eye open for these items! You never know. AFAIK the second cache module does not improve things by much .....
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twix wrote:
I'll keep an eye open for these items! You never know. AFAIK the second cache module does not improve things by much .....
Great! thanks for that
Yes it won't get any faster - that true. BUT - with 512KB Cache I can max out the main memory without exceeding the cacheable area