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PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 3:58 pm    Post subject: CPU Shack: Rare Intel ALT Server Dual Sckt 5 Mobo - SOLD Reply with quote

Here is a rather are beast.

This is the motherboard from an Intel ALT Server Columbus Chassis (sometimes called the Altair)
Intel Part # PBA648428-302A

It is a Neptune (NX) chipset based Dual Socket 5 board. (comes with one SK106)

These have the I/O connectors (serial. parallel, VGA, and WideSCSI2 on an I/O card which is almost always missing, rendering the board useless. This one is not missing.

Board has Adaptec AIC-7870 SCSI
Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430 Graphics
8x 72 pin SIMMS (included 4x8M and 4x4M for 48M of RAM)
COAST slot (with 256K of Cache)
3x PCI Slots
6x EISA Slots

$100 and its yours

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would love this board, but can't afford it. Nope, not even with delayed payment.
BTW, apart from the I/O board you also need the EISA config utility to really make use of an EISA board. That is usually proprietary and comes on a floppy. The reason is, EISA is not PnP and you need the utility to setup hardware resources for every single add-on card that you plug in. Without that, cards won't work. Cards need to be setup both in the BIOS setup, and in the EISA config.

The utility may be somewhere in this directory on a FTP server, but I don't have time to search for it now:
ftp://ftp.mindcandydvd.com/pub/IBM_PC_BBS/pc_servers/

BTW here are manuals for 2 IBM servers that I think use this board. The EISA configuration utility is mentioned in the manuals.
http://greyghost.mooo.com/pccbbs/pc_servers/sm1007us.pdf
http://greyghost.mooo.com/pccbbs/pc_servers/sm1014us.pdf
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Be cool to throw some Overdrives in it and see what it can do
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Make me an offer on this beauty Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I will offer $75 if you allow me to defer payment for 2 weeks.
(details in PM)
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really really want it but I have way to many boards!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is like 2 boards in one ..so it saves space Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Counter-offer accepted again with details in PM.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tray wrote:
I really really want it but I have way to many boards!


You don't have more boards than me, unless you have your own warehouse.

Now I know why I have been saving a few EISA boards for the past 25 years.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My bungalow is a computer warehouse. I frequently trip over boxes of parts. I must have at least 60 or 70 motherboards (not a huge amount, but some things are hard to resist!). I'll have to start counting them Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stamasd wrote:
I would love this board, but can't afford it. Nope, not even with delayed payment.
BTW, apart from the I/O board you also need the EISA config utility to really make use of an EISA board. That is usually proprietary and comes on a floppy. The reason is, EISA is not PnP and you need the utility to setup hardware resources for every single add-on card that you plug in. Without that, cards won't work. Cards need to be setup both in the BIOS setup, and in the EISA config.

The utility may be somewhere in this directory on a FTP server, but I don't have time to search for it now:
ftp://ftp.mindcandydvd.com/pub/IBM_PC_BBS/pc_servers/

BTW here are manuals for 2 IBM servers that I think use this board. The EISA configuration utility is mentioned in the manuals.
http://greyghost.mooo.com/pccbbs/pc_servers/sm1007us.pdf
http://greyghost.mooo.com/pccbbs/pc_servers/sm1014us.pdf


You can probably find them here: http://108.59.254.117/~mR_Slug/EISA/
Utility: http://108.59.254.117/~mR_Slug/pub/EISA/sources/INTEL/
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a crazy idea. I wonder if a K6-233ANR or APR would work in a socket 5 motherboard. I have seen old posts on forums from the late 1990s/early 2000s saying that it works. Would have to test in another socket5 board before trying to stick a pair of them in this one. The Vcore for the above is 3.2V and 3.3V respectively.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't thin K6 supported multi processing
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also, I'm not sure if Socket 5 supports them.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

debs3759 wrote:
I don't thin K6 supported multi processing


You're partially right... they don't support APIC SMP, but they do support OpenPIC SMP. It's just that OpenPIC was never supported in any motherboard. Sad

Well maybe I can get one to run at a time. Wink
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