TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[starred86]

Gigabytes website should have what you need.

Why on the Gigabyte website?

 

[QuietBob]

Guys, I'm starting a new adventure with this configuration.

Nice find!
The Q9400 can be used for a plethora of things, especially with an overclock. You should be able to take it to 4 GHz or thereabouts, and it will run anything that doesn't require SSE4.2 or AVX.

If you're planning to install Win7 on it, give it 4 GB of RAM at least. Win7 runs very well on 4 GB, but the 2 GB that you have installed is the official minimum. Although Win7 can still be used for basic tasks in this manner (I've got two such machines), the system won't feel responsive and multitasking is pretty much out of the question.

From what I've found, you're on the latest BIOS. The manual is here. Here you can download the latest drivers for the LAN, and here for the HD audio.

Keep us updated

 

[starred86]

Nice find!
The Q9400 can be used for a plethora of things, especially with an overclock. You should be able to take it to 4 GHz or thereabouts, and it will run anything that doesn't require SSE4.2 or AVX.

If you're planning to install Win7 on it, give it 4 GB of RAM at least. Win7 runs very well on 4 GB, but the 2 GB that you have installed is the official minimum. Although Win7 can still be used for basic tasks in this manner (I've got two such machines), the system won't feel responsive and multitasking is pretty much out of the question.

From what I've found, you're on the latest BIOS. The manual is here. Here you can download the latest drivers for the LAN, and here for the HD audio.

Keep us updated

Wow man you are great! Thank you very much!

 

[QuietBob]

Wow man you are great! Thank you very much!

Glad I could help. Also, please remove the bubble wrap from under the mobo, it may be conductive. A plain (non-coated) cardboard box is a better choice.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Why on the Gigabyte website?

Oh! My apologies. Not sure why I typed out Gigabyte. I meant Jetway. Seems the website of which doesn't seem to exist anymore.. Lame.

 

[68Olds]

Oh! My apologies. Not sure why I typed out Gigabyte. I meant Jetway. Seems the website of which doesn't seen to exist anymore.. Lame.

Would you believe that it exists, but needs to be translated from Ru to En.

I35P-SG :

 

[QuietBob]

Would you believe that it exists, but needs to be translated from Ru to En.

I35P-SG :

That's where I got the info on the latest BIOS. The download links here don't work, but one can find the necessary drivers otherwise. Wonder what that Hardware Monitoring Program for XP was

 

[lexluthermiester]

Would you believe that it exists, but needs to be translated from Ru to En.

I35P-SG :

Found that, but...

The download links here don't work

...this happened, so I didn't post it.

The main Jetway website has been rebuilt and the legacy drivers and specs info was not preserved. Jetway is not a very consumer friendly company.

 

[Retrorockit]

I would go to 8GB RAM. Then up to a 3GB GPU (GTX1060 3GB?) can work without resource conflicts due to GPU caching. Win7 32 has a 4GB limit. Win7 64 Home Basic has an 8GB limit.
I ran win7-64 wiith 8GB and a 4GB GTX1050 nad had conflict in a couple apps.s. The GTX 1060 3GB works fine.
My favorite CPU for that would be the Q9550s. 12M cache, and 65W (R0 stepping "s "version only)

 

[lexluthermiester]

I would go to 8GB RAM.

That board supports 16GB. 12GB or 16GB should be the target amount if they have it on hand or can get it cheap.

Win7 64 Home Basic

Oh goodness, they should not do that! 7 Pro should be the OS of choice. 7 Home Premium at the very least.

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

 

[pattesatan]

This might be the wrong forum, but I found some old cd's......
The burned cd, is Novell Netware 4.11, the licens disk is the one on top (I did a novell course, we got a burned cd and a cracked serial when we finished)
Then, the windows 2000 discs, I had like 20 of them, all three, like 60 discs, as I signed up for testing, and didnt think more about it, until one day, a guy in uniform pushed the doorbell, and I had to sign a paper, and he gave me 3-4 thick envelopes with cd's....
And I signed up for SUN also, thats the other cd's.

 

[Retrorockit]

if overloaded the PC will crash.

That board supports 16GB. 12GB or 16GB should be the target amount if they have it on hand or can get it cheap.

8 Gb is a minimum for me, for the reasons given. I didn't look up the chipset for that board. If the chipset can take more then go for it. But 4GB DDR2 x64 UDIMMs are rare used (mostly 4GB FBDIMMS back in the day) and expensive new.
Win7 Pro, and Ultimate both take more RAM if the MB can support it. But if Lex says it takes 16GB he's probably right. Intel LGA775 chipsets require x64 Dimms. That narrows the 4GB choices a lot. AMD and later intel with IMC procs. can use x128 modules. Intel X38 chipset, and X48 support 16GB, others IDK.
On Dell Precision, and XPS with those chipsets I do go12, or16GB. 12GB a 6GB Gpu is good, 16GB may come up short with a 12GB GPU. 8GB Should be fine. But I don't own any of those 8/12GB GPUs myself (yet).
Vaya/ Dolgix RAM doesn't list 4GB DDR2 anymore, but I've ordered them and they arrived. It's been so long since X64 was an issue that many vendors even don't know about it. Micron was good about providing these.
Dell T3400 used these. If you can find compatible modules for those it should work.
Here is an old school trick. Win7 32 bit can only address 4GB Ram (3.5 actually). But the GPU caches memory addresses from the top down before the OS loads. It will use the RAM over 4GB for this. I used to run 6GB with win7 32, and a 2GB GTX750 with no conflict possible. I could have run 8GB with a 4GB GTX1050 but they didn't exist yet. You might give that a try if you feel like it. I suppose this would work with Win7 home too for over 8GB. It limits what Windows uses, but not what the GPU can use. So the OS "limit" is just for the OS. It can actually be useful sometimes.

 

[starred86]

Found that, but...

...this happened, so I didn't post it.

The main Jetway website has been rebuilt and the legacy drivers and specs info was not preserved. Jetway is not a very consumer friendly company.

In this vein, can you advise me on a free driver again?

 

[lexluthermiester]

In this vein, can you advise me on a free driver again?

I think QuietBob's links will give you the main set.

From what I've found, you're on the latest BIOS. The manual is here. Here you can download the latest drivers for the LAN, and here for the HD audio.

These. The chipset drivers should be the only thing you might need. Ironically, Gigabyte's website has the proper drivers for that Jetway board;
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-P35-S3L-rev-20/support#support-dl-driver-chipset

 

[Ruru]

Never knew that S3 made sound chips?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Never knew that S3 made sound chips?

Neither did I. Never seen one.. Bizarre!

EDIT: Just watched that video. The MIDI sound is different. Not bad, just different. Kinda has it's own "feel" or "flavor" to the sound, if that makes any sense...

 

[Radical Vision]

Never knew that S3 made sound chips?

So then did u know AMD made audio and lan chips ?

These parts along with ATi Mach 32 card and AMD CPU would make of an great AMD ISA based system

 

[Ruru]

So then did u know AMD made audio and lan chips ?

These parts along with ATi Mach 32 card and AMD CPU would make of an great AMD ISA based system

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Yeah, seen AMD LAN chips before, but audio chips came also as a new thing to me.

 

[masterdeejay]

From trash.
Commodore MPS-803 printer. It needs some repair. (power cable damaged)

 

[starred86]

Has anyone heard anything about this card ATI 9600 Pro with DDR 2 ram memory and RGB
When I came across it, I thought it was a mistake.
If you want, I can look for it and do some tests.

 

[masterdeejay]

Interesting...
2.5ns memory means that is DDR2-800

I have an Asus 9600XT that has 2.2ns memory but not very overclockable.
Stable at little over 800mhz but the 2.2ns means it is 910mhz default so if the timing and voltage is right it should go up to ~1000mhz. But maybe the GPU IMC can handle that clocks.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Neither did I. Never seen one.. Bizarre!

EDIT: Just watched that video. The MIDI sound is different. Not bad, just different. Kinda has it's own "feel" or "flavor" to the sound, if that makes any sense...

Had one, wasn't very surprising. Sold it along with a Zida 6DLX since I had no use for it. (had a ESS 1869F at that point and a few other valuable cards.)

Anyways, more mainboards from my contact:

-MSI MS-6309
-Shuttle AE22v11
-MSI MS-6168v2 w/ 8MB
-Gigabyte GA-6BXC
-Gigabyte GA-5AA rev2.2
-ECS P6ISA-II

And I also admit, to my shame, that 3com LAN cards are good. I have a 3C905B as my fave, along Intel 82559.

 

[Radical Vision]

Ofc 3Com are good, look just at the build quality, it speaks for itself... I can tell just by looking at a part and notice the build quality, that they are good.. Specially german made PCBs are of such a high quality, along with all the components... Cherry G80-1000 keyboards may lack metal plates to make them more heavy and solid, and also the top and bottom panels are kinda garbage of the Chicony/ chinese level crap, but the cable, and specially the PCB and keys blow my mind in terms of build quality... And the keyboard still feel overall a bit shittier compared to Model M, that has membrane....




Got new IBM stuff, keyboards Model F122, M122, Model M, bunch of AGP cards, mostly useless to me like TNT Riva, TNT II pro, MatroX MGA, S3, ATi Rage 3D also useless, would be cool one to be Rage Fury MaXX.. Useless Acorp boards (the baby slot 1 type, i hate this crap), 2 Chaintech slot 1 mobos and with 4 mem slots too, some unknown s7 mobo prob Zida or Shuttle or other bs like this. The Model M with RJ connector, appear to be brand new, as there is no glance on the keys, and their texture is still there, also someone managed to crack the top panel somehow prob drop it. Managed to steal few keycaps, so i can modify my german bs layout Model M, and make it as it should be (ahh does that feel nice)...
Toshiba Satelite 330CDS made in USA hah (expected to say Japan instead...), IBM L40 SX PS/2 laptop and Leo laptop old model did not check had no time at the time, just enough to store them.. Liked the 8 bit EGA cards, they are G2, brand that seems did merge with Video 7, then they all did become Headland or whatever, seems G2 was German brand... Few Pentium II slots and 2 crappy slot Celerons, these are good only fix unstable table, or as cup stand...

 

[MaxiPro800]

At best TNT2 Pro is useful, rest is useless.

Geforce 3 Ti500, Rage 128 Pro AIW.

And yes, is real Ti500.