Re: Possibilites on 164LX

From: Ghazan Haider (ghazan_at_ghazan.haider.name)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: 14 Jun 2004 13:41:01 -0700

Thanks for the reply. I plugged in a second stick and it worked. It
took 2x PC100 ECC sticks no less. I tried 2x non-ECC, 1x ECC, PC133...

Its got Alphabios 5.7, time for some fun. Now to get a case, PS, CD. I
wonder if doom/quake2 runs on it.

Dennis Grevenstein <dennis@pcde.inka.de> wrote in message news:<caka5k$8af$1@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>...
> Ghazan Haider <ghazan@ghazan.haider.name> wrote:
> > I have a new PC164LX with 533MHz 21164 CPU that I cant get to boot. I
> > tried a Matrox Millennium (not sure what version) card, a Voodoo3,
> > both com ports at 9600 8n1, and it doesnt show anything up. I short
> > the power jumper, the CPU fan spins and ... nothing. I have 2x128MB
> > sticks installed and tried each stick individually at bank 0.
>
> I don't think it will show you anything on the 9pin
> serial ports, but only on the MMJ console port.
> You need PC100 ECC SD-RAM for this machine. Faster or
> slower RAM won't work.
> THen, IIRC the board will let you know what's wrong
> through the speaker. I don't remember the beep codes though.
>
> > I want to build it as a multi-OS system. So:
>
> > (1) Which video card will work under Windows NT/OpenVMS/Tru64 UNIX?
>
> The Voodoo3 should work with SRM in general, so it should
> work with Linux. For VMS or Tru64 I can recommend an Elsa
> Gloria Synergy.
>
> > (2) Will an IDE disk work under all those above?
>
> I have never tried that, but I heard IDE would work with Tru64.
> I can confirm that IDE is very slow on the 164LX. SCSI is
> generally recommended.
>
> > (3) what can I use the 64-bit PCI slots for beside gigabit ethernet?
>
> Anything PCI like. You can insert "normal" PCI cards.
>
> > (4) How can I use the strange RJ-11 type console port? Is it serial
> > 9600?
>
> Exactly. That should be the serial console. The connector
> is a DEC "standard". There are various adaptors, but I
> admit they might be somewhat hard to find.
>
> > (5) Any possible CPU upgrades beside the 600MHz? Can I use a 21264?
>
> No. That's why it's called "164" LX. You could try overclocking
> the 533MHz CPU to 600MHz, but of course overclocking is a
> bad idea by definition.
>
> > (6) Of Linux and the 3 BSDs, which one is the most mature and
> > well-supported OS? I'm tempted to believe its Linux but FreeBSD has
> > been supporting Alpha for a while...
>
> Which one do you like best? Use that. I have only used Linux,
> Tru64,VMS and NetBSD on Alpha. I gave up that single try to
> get NetBSD running, because it didn't support the graphics
> card I had at that time.
>
> mfg
> Dennis

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