From: Islandco [sales@islandco.com] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 7:59 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: Home Built Machine Just for the fun of it, we ordered some Axxion Boxes and have some NEW cheap PX164LX motheboards with 533Mhz 21164 cpu's I built it myself in about 1 hour + load time Configured it as follows: AXXION DL-17 Chassis (no soldering etc required - also has correct ATX cutout and 400W p/s) PC164LX 533Mhz with 2mb on board cache - had to load SRM (LX164SRM.ROM) 2 x 128Mb PC100 DIMM Qlogic QLA1040 NCR53C810 PCI card SCSI-2 narrow for Tape and CD ELSA Gloria Synergy PCI 8mb 4Gb UW SCSI Seagate ST34371W DE500-BA Ethernet DEC 10/100 RRD46-AB 12x SCSI DEC CD-ROM Regular Floppy 1.4mb I put an active terminator on the Wide Bus Terminated the SCSI CD-ROM with Parity Enabled Put the CD into DKA400 ( I don't know why it wanted to call it DKA instead of DKB) And chocks away Worked first time Loaded ELSA drivers as described in www.islandco.com/support.htm Then the DECwindows Logon prompt came on just like any other Alpha Tested it for a wee while - Good ! David Island Computers US Corporation 2700 Gregory Street Suite 150 Savannah GA 31404 Tel: 912 447 6622 Fax: 912 201 0096 sales@islandco.com www.islandco.com This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and may be privileged and/or subject to the provisions of privacy legislation. They are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please notify Island Computers US Corp immediately and then delete this message. You are notified that reliance on, disclosure of, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Lobb Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 1:02 AM Subject: Home Built Machine??? > Hi All!! > Has anyone attempted to build thier own Alpha OpenVMS machine from the UP1500 or UP2000 motherboards available from Alpha Processor? I just finished reading a bunch of the tech notes on thier site, and while they don't specifically say that OpenVMS is supported by the newer boards, all the boards run the SRM console, and the console firmware revisions look similar to ones I seem to recall from recent firmware upgrades on my ES40 at work. I realize that it is completly unsupported, but does anyone want to hazard an informed guess as to the possibilities of success? > > Thanks for the insights..... > > Dale > > P.S. for personal e-mail, remove all "nospam"s from the return address. > > > > -- Island Computers US Corporation 2700 Gregory Street Suite 150 Savannah GA 31404 Tel: 912 447 6622 Fax: 912 201 0096 sales@islandco.com www.islandco.com This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and may be privileged and/or subject to the provisions of privacy legislation. They are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please notify Island Computers US Corp immediately and then delete this message. You are notified that reliance on, disclosure of, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited.