[Cialug] alpha question

Noah Justin Norris cialug@cialug.org
Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:22:13 -0500


thanks so is there any way to find what chipset my alphas are , and get linux 
running on them .. thanks :-) 

i still believe these are digatal alphas to just rebranded ......

On Monday 11 April 2005 12:44 pm, Lee wrote:
> Ignore my previous reply. These are probably the graphics workstation
> series from these guys? http://www.ntsi.com/order/video.asp  Still a
> Digital era machine. But boxed up under the name NTSI. I can see how you
> have trouble finding info!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On Behalf
> Of Lee
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 12:29 PM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] alpha question
>
>
> Sounds like a Digital era server to me. They should say Digital on them as
> well. I would start here and see if you can find a matching spec...
>
> http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/archive/comp/index.html
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On Behalf
> Of Chris Hilton
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 11:10 AM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] alpha question
>
>
> Are these Compaq's?  I'm pretty sure HP maintains sites on all the old
> Compaq Alpha's.
>
> Noah Justin Norris wrote:
> >i have came across 2 alphas and was trying to get some info on them
> >
> >This is a clip of info i have found out below and was posted along time
> > ago
>
> on
>
> >my lug ........ ironic now it shows up in google searches ......
> >
> >  hmm not much info is on these 2 systems  they have 2 64 bit pci and 2 32
>
> bit
>
> >pci 2 isa 8 simm slots on the front of the system is NTSI alpha  the board
> >has a socket 499 with a 433 mhz processor theres 256 mb ram on the system
>
> and
>
> >has ext firmware # 4.49-7 961016.1355 i can write chip numbers down if
>
> needed
>
> >but thats all the info i can get off the system. there no other info in
> > the bios im thinking it might be a pc164 system but dont know for sure
> > the network and scsi are pci cards the video card is pciwith  accel
> > graphics on one chip has a heat sink on one chip also avance logic inc on
> > other chip
>
> also
>
> >the video card is full length card that take up the whole case
> >the system have a 4.3 gb scsi hard drives one system boots into win nt
> > (get log in dont have password)
>
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