I'm trying to figure out what I have.

[C7 in CA 0]

I've got a PC sitting here and I want to build a dvr. But I'm trying to figure out exactly what I have so I know what cards I can run in this thing.

 

I have this listed as the processor:

 

x86 Family 15 model 1 stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~1693 Mhz

 

Also I can see it's got an ATI Rage128 ProII video card and 256MB SDR DIMM. CD ROM, Floppy, Network card, and I think a 7Gig HHD. The OS is a student eval of Server 2000 and it dual boots to Mandrake. Server 2000 goes dark after a couple of hours or so.

 

So what processor is this? and besides needing an OS and another HDD how's it looking?

[rory 0]

ive ran iview on a 1700Mhz P3 with 256MB ram .. sounds like this is what you have ... except you need a larger HDD for sure.

 

also format it and load XP then you are good to go ... no high speed software compression cards though.

[DataAve 0]

Is it a smelly DELLy?

[C7 in CA 0]

It's just some homebuilt thing. It looks like it might be a pc400 SystemBoard. It's the P4 MainBoard M930 series. Says it's a Socket 487. And has a SiS chipset.

 

How does that sound?

[steve~ 0]

It sounds like you have a Pentium 4 1.7 GHZ CPU with a PCChips M930 motherboard and 256MB of memory. PCChips is kind of a low-end motherboard manufacturer and I would probably use a different manufacturer if I were building a PC, but as long as it is working for you now it will probably be reliable enough. So I guess you should be able to use any card that doesn't say it requires more than a 1.7GHZ P4 and 256MB ram.

[C7 in CA 0]

Thanks for the info guys. I think I'll probably build something with it. It is not mission critical so a cheapo MB is ok.