NathanAllan
Veteran Member
Hello again everybody,
I managed to score this tower a while back and got it fired up; nothi really wrong with it, just needed a few connections replugged and a new CMOS battery.
It has Windows NT 4 workstation and server installed, but it has a password and a buggy cd drive. I also don't have a floppy drive for it (none of mine seem to have held up) to make a boot floppy. It's really picky about what CD boots up, most linux distros won't boot. The stock CD drive was toast, so I'm using a CD-R drive that seems to work most times. Trying Ubuntu 9 now, it's isn't working.
Some of the specs are here:
P166 jumpered to 133, 131072KB memory, new mainboard from some point in time, has 20gb and 40gb drives.
I'd love to see it run fully in NT but can't crack the password, about to try the Ultimate Boot CD if it will see it.
Hope the links work, those are two older videos I made just showing it off.
http://youtu.be/Tb36a7dqfBA
http://youtu.be/Ab-J-wpFlkg
It looks like I might end up pulling a known good fdd from another machine and usign an NTFS boot floppy if I can get everything to work *IF the UBCD doesn't work.
One neat thing I tried (still trying, gotta troubleshoot) is getting an IDE-SD adapter, seeing if it will boot from that. So far no, but I have to make sure that thing works.
I managed to score this tower a while back and got it fired up; nothi really wrong with it, just needed a few connections replugged and a new CMOS battery.
It has Windows NT 4 workstation and server installed, but it has a password and a buggy cd drive. I also don't have a floppy drive for it (none of mine seem to have held up) to make a boot floppy. It's really picky about what CD boots up, most linux distros won't boot. The stock CD drive was toast, so I'm using a CD-R drive that seems to work most times. Trying Ubuntu 9 now, it's isn't working.
Some of the specs are here:
P166 jumpered to 133, 131072KB memory, new mainboard from some point in time, has 20gb and 40gb drives.
I'd love to see it run fully in NT but can't crack the password, about to try the Ultimate Boot CD if it will see it.
Hope the links work, those are two older videos I made just showing it off.
http://youtu.be/Tb36a7dqfBA
http://youtu.be/Ab-J-wpFlkg
It looks like I might end up pulling a known good fdd from another machine and usign an NTFS boot floppy if I can get everything to work *IF the UBCD doesn't work.
One neat thing I tried (still trying, gotta troubleshoot) is getting an IDE-SD adapter, seeing if it will boot from that. So far no, but I have to make sure that thing works.