Hello, Thank you all for the quick replies. They are a great help in learning more about the Alphas.
The CPU appears to be running at 500 and the socket says 499. The graphics card is a Diamond Stealth 2000 3D. 256 megs of ram is on the motherboard. NTSI ser/model number appears to be 970542 The front of the case says ASPEN/Timberline Summit, but the motherboard itself looks more like an ASPEN Durango from what I've seen on the net. I called both ASPEN and NTSI, but they were of little or no help. Although, NTSI tech support did say the box would run unix/linux ect. Is there a method to determine exactly what a alpha motherboard is? Thanks james > > Wrom: VOTQNQEMSFDULHPQQWOYIYZUNNYCGPKYLEJGDGV > Date: 2004/12/20 Mon PM 01:41:50 EST > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: New User Question > > > It is a little hard to tell just from what you have said. It would be > helpful to know what motherboard architecture the machine is. Is it an > "LX" or an "SX" ? Or something else? If you can find the NTSI model > number of the box, that may help determine what exactly it is. > > Since the machine was running NT, your current firmware should be some > flavor of AlphaBios, or something capable of booting NT. If the > motherboard supports it, it should be switched to the "SRM console" > firmware as that is better supported by Linux these days. This may > require reflashing the motherboard eeproms. > > If your box is not capable of running SRM, you still may be able to boot > Linux using the Alphabios/MILO boot method, however it is not as well > supported anymore. You may need to jump through a couple of extra hoops > to do it that way. > > What kind of graphics card does the machine have? That may affect your > ability to run X Windows depending on what you have. > > Jeff D > > > -----Original Message----- > Wrom: CJVTLBXFGGMEPYOQKEDOTWFAOBUZXUWLSZLKBRNVWWCUFPEGAUTFJMVRESKPN > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 7:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: New User Question > > Hello, > I have found, what seems to be, an old Alpha. My goal is to use this > machine to learn about linux/debian. > I need help to identify what this machine is. > > Machine was built by NTSI to use as a Pro/e NT workstation. > Processor ID is 21164 ver. 5.0 > Alpha Firmware is 4.48 > > Further Questions would be, is it possible for this machine to run > Debian and not NT. > Does the firmware need to be updated? > > > Thanks in advance > james > >
