Re: HP Vectra VE...What OS?

On the seventh day, Neil Barras wrote...

> I aquired a HP Vectra VE with the following spec from work:

hm, may be Vectra VE 6/xxx Series 8. Should be intel 430BX chipset running
at either 66 or 100MHz.

> 266MHz Celeron
> 256MB RAM
> 36GB 10k RPM Maxtor SCSI Drive (Yep...I was surprised too!)
> CD-ROM
>
> What OS should I put on the drive? It has 98 1st Ed. at the moment. I
> want to put it on my home network as a File and Print Server, and to Log
> Weather Station data. I was thinking Win98SE for best running, or Win2K
> at a push? Or would it be OK on Win2K?

Win2k is OK with that machine. You may benefit from another 128megs or
256megs or so, depending on what you'll be doing. Of course, you can always
use linux which is free, not much more difficult than any professional
Windows version and needs far less resources especially for server
processes, called "daemons".

> Also, what is the maximum processor this system will take? The Board is
> (As written on it) a "VL-609". It has a Slot 1 slot.

the manual (should be this:
http://h200001.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bpv04960/bpv04960.pdf
and
http://h200001.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bpv04960/bpv04960.pdf)
mentions jumper settings for at least 500MHz which'd be PIII. The Katmai
core has been produced to up to 600 MHz (but it's running fairly hot at
that speed) so you may be able to either find out some undocumented jumper
settings or you cpu is multiplicator-locked, meaning that whatever jumper
settings you choose, the cpu speed won't change. I don't know whether this
machine will take coppermine PIIIs but if it does, you should be able to go
as high as 1GHz without worrying about heat (the coppermines are pretty
powersaving devices).

HTH

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