Test Beds

[01000101]

Custom PC

mobo: ASUS p5n-e SLI
cpu : Core2Duo e6600 OC'd to 3.4Ghz
vid : Nvidia 7950GT 512mb
sound: DiamondGT 5.1
NIC : Nvidia nForce
other : FDC, cd/dvd r/w dl, sata2 ctrlr, 2x 250gb sata2 WD's.

Custom PC

mobo: ASUS p5n32-e SLI
cpu : Core2Duo e6600
vid : Nvidia 7950GT 256mb
sound: Onboard optical
NIC : Belkin N1 wireless PCI card
other : 2x cd/dvd r/w dl, 1x sata2 WD, 1x pata WD

sony vaio (test pc):

mobo: Not a Clue
cpu : P4 @ 3.4Ghz
vid : Nvidia 7600GS
sound: n/a
NIC : 2x RTL8139D's
other : 1x cd/dvd, FDC, 1x pata WD

[xyzzy]

Main box - aka. 'Neo'

May or may not get tested on depending on the stability of the OS and what the OS does, e.g. I won't test something like a new hard disk/filesystem driver on it, or something that blew up a PC

• CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz
• Motherboard: Asus P5KC - Intel P35 chipset
• Memory: 2GB
• Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600GT 256MB PCI-E

Test box - aka. 'Morpheus'

I'll test anything on this, providing it won't blow it up.

• CPU: Intel Pentium III 500Mhz
• Motherboard: Uhh, some Dell thing
• Memory: 640MB
• Graphics: nVidia TNT2, not sure how much RAM, AGP
• Network: Realtek RTL8139

Test box 2 - aka. 'Dynamite'

I'll test anything on this, providing it won't blow it up. The name Dynamite comes from the fact it's likely to break at any moment, seeing as it's very old

• CPU: Intel Pentium 100Mhz
• Motherboard: No clue
• Memory: 64MB (upgraded! )
• Graphics: ATI Mach64 AGP, I think 4MB

[inflater]

Main PC
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon X2 6400+ 3.2GHz
2 GB DDR2 RAM
450 GB WD HDD
1,44 MB 3,5" FDD
PS/2 mouse Genius Netscroll Optical
Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 256 MB GDDR3 VRAM
Two DVD-RW/DVD+RW burners
17" LCD Belinea
WinXP SP2
and of course printer, adsl modem, scanner, external HDD etc.

Testbed no. 1
MSI 845E Max rev 2.0
Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
256 MB RAM
60 GB WD HDD
GeForce4 MX440 64 MB VRAM
No floppy drive, one DVD-ROM drive
internal 56K modem Microcom InPorte Home
AC97 integrated sound card
WinXP SP2
I want to preserve this system without damaging it, to see after 20 years the exact state of my former main PC.

Testbed no. 2
QDI Legend BrillianX V
Intel Pentium II w/ MMX, 266 MHz (never seen a slot1 CPU )
//Overclocked to 343 MHz, 66FSB @ 68FSB, multipler 4 @ multipler 5
98 MB RAM
//RAM shows errors at the 85 MB marker
10 GB HDD Seagate
//4 GB WD added just in case
//dual cards: ATI Rage 128 32 MB VRAM AGP
S3 Virge DX 4 MB VRAM PCI (not used, just in case)
1,44MB FDD
PS/2 Genius Easy mouse
//3Com Etherlink XL COMBO (3900B-COMBO)
//Pioneer DVD-ROM
integrated SB ViBRA soundcard
It is be the main testbed for testing all kinds of applications and OSs.
//Multibooting: MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows NT 4.0 SP6, Windows 95 OSR2 Czech, Windows 98 SE English, Windows 2000 Pro SP4 CZE, Windows XP Pro SP2 English using NTLDR and GAG
//Currently WinNT, Win98 and WinXP have full networking 10Mb/s with Main PC, full access to the shared disk partition "Interdisk" - FAT16 2GB. They have internet connection through the main PC.

Testbed no. 3 (w/o case, not used)
ECS P6IWPFE 2.0
Celeron 566 MHz
17 MB RAM
4 GB WD Caviar
PS/2 mouse
some integrated sound and VGA card
no FDD, no optical drive

//UPDATE 05.03.2008
All new is marked with //
Testbed no. 2 -> multiboot 7 systems, added networking (WinNT, Win98, WinXP), added the 3D card, added a nifty case [the PC was "naked"], tried overclocking (switching mutlipleer higher than 5 would cause system crash, setting the FSB higher than 68 MHz would be unstable), added a back up 4 GB disk

[dav7]

Update on my specs!

I now have a Powermac 5500/250 (ie 250MHz PPC beauty), if you have anything you want to test on a PPC you can do so on this machine. Testing networking (read: seeing if the Ethernet card I put in will work) as of this post so you may or may not have networking from the PPC box.

Also, I decided to remove the "music box"'s 2nd HDD, so it just has the one disk for now. I don't know if this machine's HD will be writable in future, but it does (of course) have a floppy in it.

Stay tuned

[Combuster]

Update on my specs!

Would you mind editing your old post instead?

[Jeko]

Main box (it's also my test box):
# CPU: Intel Pentium IV 3.2Ghz
# Motherboard: ASUS P4PE
# Memory: 1024MB
# Graphics: nVidia GeForce 6600, AGP 8x
# Network: Realtek RTL8139
# Sound: Sound Card AC97 (It's Intel, but I don't know version number, etc.)
# Storage: Floppy drive, USB drive, two CDROM drives, two hard-disks (with about 100GB of space)

[cyr1x]

Main PC
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
- MoBo: Gigabyte P35-DS4
- NIC: Realtek RTL8168/8111
- Sound: Realtek ALC889A
- GPU: GeForce 8800 GTS 640MiB
- Memory: 2x 1GiB + 2x 2GiB
- HDD: 320GB
- Win Vista
- Floppy

Second PC
- CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+
- MoBo: ECS N2U400-A
- NIC: Something from Nvidia
- Sound: C-Media CMI9739A
- GPU: GeForce FX5200 128MiB
- Memory: 2x 512MiB
- HDD: 2x60GB
- Win XP
- Floppy

Server - IBM eServer xSeries 235
- CPU: 2x Intel Xeon 2800Ghz with HyperThreading
- MoBo: IBM-specific
- NIC: Broadcom 5703
- GPU: ATI Rage XL 8MiB
- Memory: 4x 512MiB Registered/ECC
- LSI Logic 1030 SCSI-U320 controller
- IBM ServeRAID 4Mx SCSI-U160 RAID-controller
- HDD: 3x 36.4GB SCSI-U160 @ 10000rpm
- Windows Home Server
- Floppy
- a cool button which issues an NMI
- 2 IO-APICs

Ancient PC
- CPU: Celeron 266Mhz
- RAM: 1x 128MiB + 2x 64MiB
- Audio: Soundblaster 16
- GPU: Kyro 32MiB
- 3 ISA-Ports

Acer Aspire One

DELL Studio 15
- CPU: Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4200
- RAM: 2x 1024MiB
- GPU: ATI Mobility Series Radeon HD3400
- Windows Vista

[nekros]

I envy you.

[JackScott]

Development PC:
Operating systems will need to be supplied as CD images. For testing the hard drives will be taken out.

• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3
• Processor: Intel Pentium Dual-core E2160 (1.8GHz)
• RAM: 4x 1024MiB 667MHz DDR2 (Zeppelin branded)
• Video: NVidia Geforce 8800GT 512MiB (Gainward branded)
• Network: Onboard Realtek 8168B (PCI 10/100/1000)
• Network: Linksys WMP54G (PCI 802.11g)
• Optical Drive: Pioneer DVD-RW 212 SATA
• Hard Disk: Western Digital 500GB SATA

Testing PC #1:
Operating systems will need to be supplied as CD images. It is an ASUS barebones PC, so I don't know much about it in terms of motherboard hardware.

• Motherboard: ASUS P5VD2-VM
• Processor: Intel Pentium Dual-core E2180 (2.0GHz)
• RAM: 1x 1024MiB 667MHz DDR2 (Transcend branded)
• Video: NVidia Geforce 7200GS 128MiB (Galaxy branded)
• Optical Drive: Pioneer DVD-RW 115 IDE
• Hard Disk: Seagate Barracuda 40GB IDE

Spare Parts:
These parts can (depending on whether they fit) be put into my Development PC or Testing PC #1. I'm also willing to custom build PCs. Since I work in a computer shop, I can also get hold of a variety of PCI and ISA Network, SCSI and Sound cards. If you have a specific request, I may be able to get one to test.

• Computer: Apple iMac G3 (CRT is broken)
• Floppy Drive: Sony 3.5" 1.44MB
• Game Controller: Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick (USB, 3-axis, 8-button)
• Hard Disk: Western Digital Caviar 4.1GB (IDE)
• Hard Disk: 40GB (IDE, with numerous bad sectors)
• Motherboard: MSI MS-6198
• Network: Realtek 8139B (PCI 10/100)
• Network: Realtek 8139D (PCI 10/100)
• Network: 3Com 589 (PCMCIA 10Mb/s)
• Optical Drive: Unknown CD-RW Drive (IDE)
• Processor: Intel Pentium III Coppermine (933MHz)
• RAM: 512MiB 133MHz SD-RAM (Samsung branded)
• Sound: Creative ES1370 (PCI Stereo, Ensoniq branded)
• Sound: Creative Vibra 16XV (ISA Stereo, Creative SoundBlaster, model CT4170)
• SATA: Sil 3512 (PCI)
• SCSI: Adaptec AHA-2940W (PCI 50pin)
• Video: Cirrus Logic 1MiB Framebuffer (PCI)

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Notes:
I'm also quite willing to do testing of usermode applications and games. I have a variety of operating systems available. On request I will happily run lspci on any of the machines above.

[nekros]

Main:
sempron 2gz
6gb hd ;for testing
40gb hd; don't touch this it wont be available when I test your os
40x cdrom
floppy soon.=]

[lukem95]

Development (and some testing):

Acer Aspire 5610Z
* 2gig DDR2
* Intel Dual Core 1.66ghz CPU
* Intel GMA 950 224MB GPU (which is actually fairly good, despite my reservations)
* 120gig SATA HDD
* WXGA screen
* USB controller
* Gigabit Ethernet
* DVD+/-RW driver
* Bluetooth
* Intel WiFi (Not so good, i use a custom Lucent Gold card)
* Realtek Hi-Def audio card
* Synaptic pointing device (touchpad mouse)
* PCMIA (1x)

Test:

Toshiba Satellite S4000CDS
* 3.5" Floppy Driver/FDC
* 6.4gig ATA HDD
* Intel Pentium II 300mhz
* 64meg DDR
* CD+/-RW drive
* 100megabit ethernet
* PS/2 port (for mouse)
* USB controller
* Infared
* 2 PCMIA slots (more than my main laptop XD)
* SVGA screen
* 2 Parallel ports (1 x 25 pin, 1 x 9 pin)

[Brynet-Inc]

I have an older i486SX laptop that I'm willing to let people test on.

Toshiba T1910:
i486SX @ 33Mhz (No FPU)
An LCD screen capable of VGA resolutions, no colour.
200MB hard drive, currently have NetBSD 1.5.3 installed.. later versions use a different floppy bootloader that doesn't appear to work on it, I have successfully loaded the NetBSD 3 kernel though.
1.44MB Floppy drive.
16-bit PCMCIA slot, with a 14.4K baud modem.. presents itself as a com(4) device under NetBSD, accepts Hayes AT commands. (I'm unwilling to connect it to a telephone line though.)
Trackball mouse with a proprietary connector, appears as traditional PS/2 mouse.

(Early dmesg, 1.5.3.. without the mouse or modem connected...).

Code: Select all

NetBSD 1.5.3 (GENERIC_TINY) #23: Mon Jul  1 21:38:28 CEST 2002
    [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC_TINY
cpu0: Intel 486SX (486-class)
total memory = 8064 KB
avail memory = 5976 KB
using 126 buffers containing 504 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
isa0 at mainbus0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST9235A>
wd0: drive supports 8-sector pio transfers, chs addressing
wd0: 200 MB, 985 cyl, 13 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 409760 sectors
vga0 at isa0 port 0x3b0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff
wsdisplay0 at vga0: console (80x25, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0xd0000-0xd3fff
pcic0: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has socket A only
pcic0: controller 1 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has no sockets
pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
biomask ff6d netmask ff6d ttymask ffef
pcic0: controller 0 detecting irqs with mask 0xdeb8:..3..5..9..10..11..15
pcic0: using irq 3 for socket events
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)

Tested OS:
MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.11 was originally on the system. (Not anymore.).
NetBSD, several releases.. 1.5.3 being the latest version capable of booting via floppy.
QNX demo disk, I found this rather impressive... it booted successfully, quickly.. and the GUI was very responsive. (A pity it's locked down so tight..).

OS's that won't boot:
MenuetOS.
KolibriOS.
Solar_OS.

You can contact me via the forum or with the yahoo contact information on my profile..

[Combuster]

*puts away fire extinguisher*
Summarized: Inflater reported this about Brynet-Inc's testing offer, who replied that he was a special case...

[naeilm]

These are my computers, the first one is my MAIN unit for gaming development and everything X-D, srry about the length and specs on the first one, i kinda love it X-D. ** Means Further Specs

Main 1:
* Whitebox (Custom Built) ATI Spider System By Naeilm
* ASUS MSA79-T Deluxe AM2+ AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard
** x4 Dual Channel DDR2 1066 Slots Up to 16GB
** x4 PCIe 2.0 x16 w/ ATI CrossFirex
** 6 Sata 3.0GB, 1 PATA
** 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN
** 6 USB 2.0 High Speed
** x1 IEEE 1394a, x1 eSATA 3.0, x1 Optical & coaxial S/PDIF
*AMD Phenom 9950 Black Edition Agena 2.6GHz Processor
** x4 512KB L2 Cache
** 2MB L3 Cache
** 140W, 65nm
** 4000MHz Hyper Transport
** 64 Bit, Hyper Transport, Virtualization
** MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, 3DNOW! Pro
* 4 x 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) SDRAM Dual Channel
** 5 Cas Latency
** 5-5-5-15 Timing
** 2.0-2.1V
** eVCI Heat Spreader (enhanced Vapor Chambor Interface)
* 4 x Seagate Barracuda
** 1.5TB each (6TB Total)
** 7200 RPM
** 32MB Cache
** SATA 3.0
** 4.16ms Latency
* OCZ Solid State Disk
** 128GB
** SATA 3.0
** 1500G Shock Resistant
** 120-143MB/s Read
** 80-93 MB/s Write
** 1.5 Million MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
* 2 x Saphire Radeon HD 4870
** 2GB Each
** 512-Bit (256-bit x2)
** GDDR5
** PCIe 2.0 x16
** HDCP Ready
** Using CrossFireX
** DirectX 10.1
** OpenGL 2.1
** 400MHz RAMDAC
** 2560x1600 Max Resolution
* ASUS PHYSX Processing Unit
** 128MB
** 128-Bit
** GDDR3
** PCIe 2.0 x16
* ASUS Xonar D2X 7.1
** 7.1 Channel
** 24-Bit
** 192KHz Sample Rate
** 118dB SNR (Signal-to-noise ratio)
** PCIe 2.0 x16
*ePower Ep-200P10-T3 Power Supply
** 2000W
** ATX12V
** SLI and CrossFireX Ready
** 2 x 120mm Fans
** Active PFC (Power Factor Correction)
** 6 +12V Rails
** 3 x 6 PIn, 2 x 8 Pin PCIe Connectors
** OVer Voltage, OVerload Protection
** 6 x Periphial, 24 x SATA, 2 x Floppy Power Connectors
* 4 x Samsung XL30-2
** 30" Each
** 2560x1600 Recommended Resolution
** 0.251 Pixel Pitch
** 200cd/m2 Brightness
** 2ms GTG (Change Between Colors)
** 60Hz Vertical Refresh, 50-100KHz Horizontal Refresh
* Sony BWU-2005 Blu Ray Disc Burner
** 8MB Cache
** 210ms Blu-ray DVD-ROM Access Time
** x4 Blu-ray, x16 DVD-ROM, x40 CD-ROM Read Times
** SATA 3.0
* LIAN LI PC-P80R Case
** ATX Full Tower
** 12 x External 5.25", 6 x Internal 3.5", 10 x Expansion Slots
** 120mm, 4 x 140mm Fans
** Anti Vibration
** Sound Insulation
** Security Lock (BioMetric)
* Cooling Systems
** ZALMAN Reserator XT BK Liquid Cooling System (Resovior+Radiator+WaterPump)
Main 2:
* T3882 (eMachines 2005 Model)
* Intel Celeron D (2.89 GHz)
* 768MB DDR
* 80GB Primary
* 40GB Secondary
* ATI Radeon 9700 256MB Graphics Card
Main 3:
* PCV-RZ24GUC (Sony Vaio 2003 Model)
* Intel Pentium 4 (2.65 GHz)
* 768MB DDR
* 80GB Primary
* 40GB Secondary
* ATI Radeon 9250 128MB Graphics Card

Test 1: IBM PC Model 5150
Test 2: AOpen Computer Running AMD K6 III (800MHz), 512MB Ram
Test 3: HP Computer Running Intel Celeron D (1.3GHz), 512MB Ram

[kmtdk]

well
since most have wroten their test computers, im gooing too.

acturealy i have one, i use for testing, but is the "perfeckt" it got many speciel things:

main hardware:
cpu : AMD 1800+ ( dont remember its name)
motherboard: eh i forgot. ( but i know that it is before the year 2000)
memory: 1 gb / 512 mb , a self choose
graphic card: 128 mb ati ( i dont remeber the rest)
and onboard soundcard.

drives:
floppy disk (1,44 mb)
dvd drive
cd burner drive
hardisks:
IBM, model "DTTA-351010" at 10,1 GB.
another IBM, with many "bad sectors", but 30 GB , the model is "DTLA - 307030"
the last is a "Segate" 40 gb barracude 7200 RPM, and its model nr is "ST340014A"

Human deviceses:
ps2 coreless mouse and keyboard
usb mouse ( a optical "AGK NORDIC") and usb keyboard
and a "mycom" screen, with the max resolutuin at 1280 * 1024 pixels, and running at 60 hertz
and of cause speakers.



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