Looking for advice and/or manual

Hi
I just got an old P1 given to me and I want to get it running. It
seems to need a reformat. When I start it, it goes to a screen that
has Vectra on a coloured background.
I am looking also for a manual for the board and looked at HP as its
an HP board (with no success)
Maybe someone here can help me.
The board is D3830-60003 made by HP
The date is 2000.
Help if you can please.

Truthseeker wrote:

> Hi
> I just got an old P1 given to me and I want to get it running. It
> seems to need a reformat. When I start it, it goes to a screen that
> has Vectra on a coloured background.
> I am looking also for a manual for the board and looked at HP as its
> an HP board (with no success)
> Maybe someone here can help me.
> The board is D3830-60003 made by HP
> The date is 2000.
> Help if you can please.


Does this match?

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/su...reg_R1002_USEN

Actually, you are looking at a computer of 1996 or 1997 vintage. Maximum drive
capacity is probably 8.4GB. Memory consists of 72-pin SIMMs, maximum capacity
32MB, installed in matched pairs. IDE cable type is cable-select, so drives
need to be jumpered accordingly. Any USB ports are likely to show odd behavior,
as these were among the first ones ever.

The jumper settings for various processor speeds are printed on the motherboard.
With the right jumpers, system will support 233MHz Pentium MMX.

I would run either some version of Linux on it, or maybe Windows 98.

As for documentation, whatever is on the HP web site is what there is. Probably
not much, either.

This is a real oddball hardware design, far from the mainstream. But it uses
standard everyday peripherals, memory and CPU... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:56:17 -0000, lid (Truthseeker) wrote:

>Hi
>I just got an old P1 given to me and I want to get it running. It
>seems to need a reformat. When I start it, it goes to a screen that
>has Vectra on a coloured background.
>I am looking also for a manual for the board and looked at HP as its
>an HP board (with no success)
>Maybe someone here can help me.
>The board is D3830-60003 made by HP
>The date is 2000.
>Help if you can please.

On the seventh day, Ben Myers wrote...

> Actually, you are looking at a computer of 1996 or 1997 vintage.

it's a Vectra VL5 Series 5. craigm has put a link to the right manual on
hp.com.

> Maximum drive capacity is probably 8.4GB.

ACK. Truthseeker should update the BIOS, though.

> Memory consists of 72-pin
> SIMMs, maximum capacity 32MB, installed in matched pairs.

ACK, however, the largest modules need to be in bank 0 or 1. Matched pairs
means identical modules. EDO DRAM (SIMM) with 60ns is best. Maximum is
192MB. The VL5 uses the intel HX chipset. I don't know whether that
configuration caches memory >64MB but it's definitely possible. If needed
you could upgrade the PBSRAM cache module to 512kB. That should do the
trick.

> IDE cable
> type is cable-select, so drives need to be jumpered accordingly.

need not be, but advisable.

> Any
> USB ports are likely to show odd behavior, as these were among the first
> ones ever.

They work. But it's USB1.0 IIRC.

> The jumper settings for various processor speeds are printed on the
> motherboard. With the right jumpers, system will support 233MHz Pentium
> MMX.

Be advised that you will also need the correct VRM to support
split-voltage. If you already have a MMX-CPU you won't need the VRM since
it is already there.

> I would run either some version of Linux on it, or maybe Windows 98.

Windows 95 SR2 (aka "B" or "C") is perfectly fine, Win98 already too new.
It will work, though.

> As for documentation, whatever is on the HP web site is what there is.
> Probably not much, either.
>
> This is a real oddball hardware design, far from the mainstream. But it
> uses standard everyday peripherals, memory and CPU... Ben Myers

it's an absolute nice machine. Rock-solid and flawless, does what you
expect it to do.

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