SSD Upgrade in the ASUS Terminator P4

I'm glad I was finally able to get an SSD in this system - It should help out a lot, even at the lower speeds that I get because of UDMA being disabled.
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[@crisenpuer]

I read the title as "ANUS Terminator"... Kill me...

[@MimiWhiskers]

I would use a Sata PCI card since the computer running windows xp anyways, thought sometimes the bios hate these cards and won't boot from them. I played around with a lot of different cards, and It was a real pain to find a card that work great. But I did found found one, and that was the "Promise FastTrak S150 TX4". Great thing with about this card, it had driver support for windows 98! And all my retro computers had no issues booting with it. Sadly it's a hard card to come by, and it's Spendy. If you find one cheap, pick it up fast!

[@ChrisJackson-js8rd]

you might also find that booting from a pci device will be restricted to specific pci slots. just fyi

[@europa6502]

Yeah, that's my eventual goal - I found that the BIOS in this computer doesn't like booting the adapter unless I disable UDMA, which is of course going to be very slow, so I think finding a bootable PCI SATA card will be my best bet for speed. I'll keep an eye out for that model, thanks for the recommendation :)

[@MimiWhiskers]

@@europa6502 If you do get one, the drivers are still available on their website. If you don't plan on using windows 98, you could probable can go with the "Promise SATA 300 TX4" version, easier to find and it's cheaper too. It does say it supports Sata 2, but your still limited by the the PCI bus speed. That motherboard is 133MB's and Sata 1 Max speed is about 150MB's anyways so there's no real speed advantage of having Sata 2.

[@oddhap]

Remember to align the drive when using Windows XP with an SSD :)

[@thescoobydoovibe]

installing linux on that thing can make it 10 times more usable but hey good video dude!

[@SilasTheSilent]

Unix sys V or IRIX

[@europa6502]

Windows XP works just fine for me on this, but I do have my other Terminator that I have Linux on

[@europa6502]

IRIX is System V (Releases 3 and 4 specifically, depending on the version), and only ever ran on MIPS processors. While there were other System Vs that _did_ get release on x86 (Solaris, for instance), I don't have much confidence it'd run well on here considering the chipset that was used.

[@NexXxus86]

I have two of those with blown capacitors, they have very little air flow because of the tight package and the Pentium 4 gets hot af...

[@markosejic7383]

my sister had one black case and sis chipset that had drivers issues all the time on windows Xp

[@europa6502]

Yeah honestly I'm not a huge fan of the SiS chipset in this computer

[@JohnSmith-iu8cj]

No DMA?

[@europa6502]

Yeah, the adapter won't boot if I have it on

[@bakaata]

haii europe :3

[@europa6502]

Hai :3

[@tonycollazorappo]

Can I install ChromeOS on an old PC like yours. Or maybe an Optiplex?

[@europa6502]

Not on a PC of this spec, no. First and foremost, it looks like ChromeOS Flex requires a 64-bit CPU and this has a 32-bit CPU. Beyond that though I don't think this computer could meet the RAM requirements either.

[@mathmos2526]

what's the point of putting an ssd in such an old pc. the hard drive sounds just make it better

[@europa6502]

More storage is the main reason I went this route, but also this in theory will last longer and would give me theoretically better speeds if I didn't have to disable UDMA (and should once I can get a SATA card)

[@dkhl02]

Lentium😅😂

[@Junkyard_Dawg]

Terrible