Profile: i486DX4-100 - i423TX Saturn II - 128MB EDO - NT5
Personal background
This is one of the most "decent" SETI machines I ever built. It derived from a project to realise a Windows 2000 Pro Installation on a machine as old as possible.
This is the configuration:
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Asus PCI/I486SP3G v1.8 Serverboard w. PCI / NCR SCSI, 256KB Write-Back L2
i486DX4-S 100MHz Processor
4x32MB = 128MB EDO DRAM in FP Mode
Matrox Millennium 2MB
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller
3Com Etherlink III
Not yet chosen WLAN Adapter (PCI 2.0 compliance seems to be RARE)
IBM DDRS-34560 4.33GB 7.200rpm Fast-SCSI2 Drive
Plextor 40x UW SCSI CD-ROM
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Getting Windows 2000 to run was a pretty hard task.
Summed up:
) CD not bootable on NCR or Adaptec SCSI Controller
) Switching to MD-DOS Win2000 Installation through ..\\i386\\WINNT.exe
) Installed. Third Setup Phase hangs on MUP.sys
) Trying NT4. Setup hangs when detecting the Matrox Millennium
) Played around with the IRQ's and IRQ Select Methods. NT4 NOW RUNS!
) Updating NT4 to Win2000
) Win2000 would now boot, but only in safe mode.
) Added "/sos" line to boot.ini's Win2000 Partition Entry. Win2000 NOW RUNS!
Got the "/sos" trick from somewhere on the web. What is read so quickly was a work of several days and approximately 40-50 hours which is a LOT just troubleshooting an old i486.. But hey, now i've got my i486 Win2000 Router and SETI machine! :)
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
