24 Apr
2006
24 Apr
'06
8:33 p.m.
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 00:15, Dave Dunfield wrote:
RXed this machine on the weekend. It appears to be an
Alpha of
some sort.
Physically looks like a generic ATX PC clone, in a standard ATX
case with powers supply - has PS/2 keyboard/mouse, two COM
and 1 LPT ports.
This sounds like a bog-standard AlphaPC 164LX board. I've got a bunch
(with 533MHz 21164A's and one with a 600MHz 21164A) that I use as
webservers and such.
They use registered ECC PC100 DIMMs I think, but must be "low
densitiy" - they take any DIMM up to 128MB, and double-sided (18 chip)
256MB DIMMs.
They've got an x86 emulator in the BIOS, so you can use a PC PCI video
card, have on-board IDE and floppy interfaces (the IDE is really slow).
They can netboot from either Tulip-chipset cards, or Intel eepro 100
nics (if you have a new enough firmware). They can also boot off an
NCR/SYM53C875 chipset or Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI card (those are the only
ones I've tried).
It should also be able to do a serial console - try hooking something up
to the first serial port (9600-8-n-1), and see if you get a response.
Pat
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