Mr Fahrenheit
Experienced Member
Always wanting to subject myself to more and more vintage computing torture, I found a “PC” on eBay that was very cheap. Like $40 cheap.
It arrived today and here are the specs:
Intel 815 chipset , socket 370 board, with Pentium 3, 866mhz CPU, ATX power, PC133 memory. Board is silkscreened “RadiSys”. I bought this computer from a medical equipment liquidator.
The case has a Windows NT Workstation 4.0 COA sticker on it, so I assumed it would be useable in some way.
It doesn’t appear to be a regular PC though. Turning it on there is a screen that immediately pops up, and no BIOS. No apparent way to get into any BIOS. There’s no typical “Award” or “AMI” bios POST screen at all. Just this RadiSys screen that halts at about 40%
How do I make this work? Or is it so locked down that it’s pointless to try?
The case is marked “Systium Model 350”
It arrived today and here are the specs:
Intel 815 chipset , socket 370 board, with Pentium 3, 866mhz CPU, ATX power, PC133 memory. Board is silkscreened “RadiSys”. I bought this computer from a medical equipment liquidator.
The case has a Windows NT Workstation 4.0 COA sticker on it, so I assumed it would be useable in some way.
It doesn’t appear to be a regular PC though. Turning it on there is a screen that immediately pops up, and no BIOS. No apparent way to get into any BIOS. There’s no typical “Award” or “AMI” bios POST screen at all. Just this RadiSys screen that halts at about 40%
How do I make this work? Or is it so locked down that it’s pointless to try?
The case is marked “Systium Model 350”