Archives mensuelles : décembre 2004

New life for an old box

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Mainboard Asus TX97

This board is some kind of special fellow. It doesn’t bother having SIMM sockets anymore, which is probably the reason why it’s usually shipped with one Asus 32 MB SDRAM DIMM. There is a version (TX97-E) that will allow you to use your old 72 pin SIMM EDO or FPM, but I haven’t received that one for testing, neither the ATX versions. It comes with a nice gimmick, which enables you to monitor the CPU and board temperature, the CPU fan function (that’s why it comes with its own heatsink/fan) and the board’s voltages. You can either check these values in the BIOS setup menu under ‘Power management’ or via the Intel LDCM software from Win95, NT and over the network, that comes with the board on a CD.

The performance of the TX97 is very good, especially since its latest BIOS release 1.04. It’s one of the fastest Socket 7 boards available. However there’s one big let down, it does not support 83 MHz bus speed and rumors say that this is due to Asus close relationship to Intel. My personal opinion is to prefer an board that’s a little slower but offering 83 MHz support and I don’t really understand why Asus went off the 83 MHz idea, which was first introduced by themselves.

The TX97 comes with 4 PCI, 4 ISA, 3 DIMM slots, supporting all current Socket 7 CPUs, for the AMD K6 233 you can jumper 3.1 V, it doesn’t have ECC support, neither does it cache more than 64 MB of RAM, due to the TX chipset. It supports SDRAM, Ultra-DMA and FPM or EDO in case you can get them in form of DIMMs. It has a switching voltage regulator.[X]

BIOS Award v4.51PG

DriverGuide & Wim’s BIOS Page

Silent PC greets newbee

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…here are some detailed how-to-assemble-a-PC articles. You can find many more on the web:

All lifted from SPCR Forums, where the following greets the one who clicked on FAQ for Newbies: Please read this first!!

Thanks for reading this, you’re obviously an honest person and not afraid to admit (at least to yourself Wink ) that you’re new at something and maybe need some basic help.

Debian on Soekris

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  • it all came from there
  • Soekris …is a small company specializing in the design of embedded computer and communication devices. We are now offering a line of standard products of x86 based communication computers for the OEM market. They are available in any volume, from single units to high volume, and can also be customized to individual requirements.
  • Nucleus is a flexible and easy to install content management system [x] (via David Courtney’s Weblog)
  • Memtest86… is [a] thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are a quick, cursory check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86. (via David Courtney’s Embedded E-Mail Server)