[K12OSN] advice on surplus hardware
"Terrell Prudé, Jr."
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Fri Jul 29 01:51:56 UTC 2005
Ben Nickell wrote:
>I have the opportunity to salvage some old hardware. I would appreciate
>advice on whether any of this is worthwhile for use in thin clients.
>I'm only interested in it if it is easy or will work out of the box or
>could replace a less capable part in another system (network or video
>card).
>
>Here are the specs.
>
>AT power supply
>P1 200 MMX processors
>96mb of RAM in (6) 72pin SIMMS
>3com 905-TX rev B 10/100 network cards with bootrom slot
>(Don't think it will PXE boot though, doesn't it have to be Rev C to
>PXE boot?)
>ATI 3d Rage II+ DVD video cards, video ram unknown.
>
>Does anyone have experience with this hardware?
>
>To netboot those network cards, is the easiest way to purchase bootroms?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Ben Nickell
>
>
The one I'm typing on now is similar to yours:
Pentium-166 (not MMX)
32MB DRAM
3Com 3C905b-TX
S3 Trio64 video board
I use an EtherBoot floppy for the 3C905 to netboot this guy. Works very
well. You're right; they don't PXE boot, but if you've got a boot ROM
in it, it'll use EtherBoot. I simulate this with a floppy, made from
the Rom-O-Matic image.
--TP
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