Well, my second system used to run Gamma Flux, it's an old Atrend 5000 motherboard with an AMD K6 at 200mhz, 16meg of EDO ram and a 40meg HD running win998fe. I recently was given an old Quantum 270mb HD, and though that it may give me the space needed to get enough of windoze on it to run the Think client. Didn't need much of windoze to run Gamma Flux. It took about 20 hours and many media wipes/fdisks/formats to find out that win98fe must instal with HD UDMA enabled or something, cause after about the second instal reboot it would keep hitting the drive and go nowhere during the setup phase. Finally tried win98se, and it went in. I attribute the problem to the UDMA thing cause when I enabled it in windoze and rebooted I was back to square one again. Ovious to me now that the old Quantum is definately not UDMA compatible! Thier web site only provided me with pinouts and CHS values. Won't enable that again! Despite UD's client complaining that it required 48meg of ram, it installed anyway, warning me that it may not work at all. I expected it to choke or make smoke, but amazingly enuff not the case! It started up and downloaded the required files and to my surprise it started doin it's thing, and I still have 32meg of HD spae too play with after all this, fat16 not campressed. To summarize, it's now running on windoze98 Second Attempt, Atrend 5000 motherboard, 16mb of old EDO ram, an AMD K6 at 200mhz, old 6x Acer cdrom, Matrox Millenium PCI video card, old Radicom ISA 28.8 VFD modem, very old monitor of unknown origin at 800x600 resolution, and oh yeah, a logitech two button mouse. Needless to say, my system doesn't score very high, and I'm not expecting it to finish this work unit any time soon. Performance rating on this first work unit are as follows..
Processor = 14
Memory = 5
Storage = 6
Network = 8
Overall = 9
And you think you had some low performance ratings?
Oddly enuff I expected the swap file to take a kick in the nutz, but after the client starts all is quite, or as quite as it can be, that old Quantum has to be the noisier than my 25 year old fridge, it just howls. There's not much else installed, however I can browse the C: with explorer without a lockup. Makes me wonder about all the posts I have read on UD forums by people cranked off cause thier fancy high grade systems crash 10 times a day. I think a good part of why it runs is the use of Cacheman 4.0. Windoze doesn't handle its virtual disk cache very well, this will help straighten it out for you. Oops! Just checked their page and now there's a 4.1. It's freeware at http://www.outertech.com/. Darn, wish I'd checked that before I installed it. Installing the new version and using the "low memory" preset helped even more, with UD running I have a 35meg swap file, down consisderably from using v4.0, probly due to the new "unload dll" function enabled. So, if you have an old machine sitting in the closet collecting dust, it may be worth a try, all you have to lose is the time it takes to set it up. If you are installing windows to a small drive and it complains about not enuff drive space, try using - D:\setup /id - (where D: is your cdrom) to get windoze started, that tells it not to check for available disk space. You will likely need at least 250mb drive, and have to custom setup with minimum goodies.
Dedicated to Distributed Computing? Nah, not me. Actually, making win98fe run Gamma Flux on the 40meg HD was more of a challenge, it would go for weeks without a crash, usually it was a power dump that made it reboot. Being really bored helps to. After 5 hours 4min running, it's done 9 percent with three hits, and still hummin' along.
Happy CPU warming, with whatever you like to use to keep it warm with!
Sled Dog.
Processor = 14
Memory = 5
Storage = 6
Network = 8
Overall = 9
And you think you had some low performance ratings?
Oddly enuff I expected the swap file to take a kick in the nutz, but after the client starts all is quite, or as quite as it can be, that old Quantum has to be the noisier than my 25 year old fridge, it just howls. There's not much else installed, however I can browse the C: with explorer without a lockup. Makes me wonder about all the posts I have read on UD forums by people cranked off cause thier fancy high grade systems crash 10 times a day. I think a good part of why it runs is the use of Cacheman 4.0. Windoze doesn't handle its virtual disk cache very well, this will help straighten it out for you. Oops! Just checked their page and now there's a 4.1. It's freeware at http://www.outertech.com/. Darn, wish I'd checked that before I installed it. Installing the new version and using the "low memory" preset helped even more, with UD running I have a 35meg swap file, down consisderably from using v4.0, probly due to the new "unload dll" function enabled. So, if you have an old machine sitting in the closet collecting dust, it may be worth a try, all you have to lose is the time it takes to set it up. If you are installing windows to a small drive and it complains about not enuff drive space, try using - D:\setup /id - (where D: is your cdrom) to get windoze started, that tells it not to check for available disk space. You will likely need at least 250mb drive, and have to custom setup with minimum goodies.
Dedicated to Distributed Computing? Nah, not me. Actually, making win98fe run Gamma Flux on the 40meg HD was more of a challenge, it would go for weeks without a crash, usually it was a power dump that made it reboot. Being really bored helps to. After 5 hours 4min running, it's done 9 percent with three hits, and still hummin' along.
Happy CPU warming, with whatever you like to use to keep it warm with!
Sled Dog.
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