What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

[Krankshaft]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

ISA geez I thought those slots went the way of VHS and 8-Track tapes .

Honestly what ISA card does anyone have in their posession that doesn't have a modern PCI counterpart?

Interesting to see though not as interesting as the vacuum tube mobo soundcard but interesting nonetheless .

[Scenic]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

@per: i meant the boards below the i965 one..

[PCBONEZ]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

ISA geez I thought those slots went the way of VHS and 8-Track tapes .

Honestly what ISA card does anyone have in their posession that doesn't have a modern PCI counterpart?

ISA is still common in Industrial machines.
CNC mills. Robotic controls in factories. Things like that.

When some multi 100,000's of dollars machine breaks they want it fixed RIGHT NOW.

"No wait. I have to design a PCI card to do what that old ISA card does before I replace the motherboard in you machine's controller. - And rewrite the software/drivers for it. - So,,, just send those 10 or 100 or 1000 employees home and close down production for a few months while I work that out...."
--> JUST AIN'T GONNA CUT IT.

And often,
The company that originally developed that ISA card and the software they depend on isn't even around anymore.


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[willawake]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

and also to develop/check the software you need much free access to the machine.

industrial people dont give a shit about the technology as long as it works.

[kc8adu]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

ISA is still common in Industrial machines.
CNC mills. Robotic controls in factories. Things like that.

When some multi 100,000's of dollars machine breaks they want it fixed RIGHT NOW.

"No wait. I have to design a PCI card to do what that old ISA card does before I replace the motherboard in you machine's controller. - And rewrite the software/drivers for it. - So,,, just send those 10 or 100 or 1000 employees home and close down production for a few months while I work that out...."
--> JUST AIN'T GONNA CUT IT.

And often,
The company that originally developed that ISA card and the software they depend on isn't even around anymore.


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thats what i do.
i repair what you cannot buy or adapt something else to.
its one area of electronics that is still quite profitable if you know what you are doing and have experience.cannot be outsourced either.
this motherboard,lcd,plasma,psu shit is just time filler.

[pentium]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

DDR2 RAM is free with your lunch nowdays, you can get 512MB for $5.99!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145569

Or 1GB for $7.99!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148239

[derail]That's bullshit. 1Gb of PC3200 DDR ram is still ~$30 a stick! [/derail]

[PCBONEZ]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

[derail]That's bullshit. 1Gb of PC3200 DDR ram is still ~$30 a stick! [/derail]

Where do you buy it? - Macy's?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820134008
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820236112
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146545
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820141198

And Newegg's prices are on the high side of low.

[momaka]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

This guy beats newegg on cheap ddr ram
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/fsgw_W...pgZ50QQ_sopZ12
I bought from him 2 different times. Haven't had problems with any of the sticks. My "noname" stick was made by Mosel, a brand I saw in a few older 2004-2006 Dell desktops.

[gg1978]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

I'd go for an Asus P2B-F or P3B-F.. I believe the P3B came in both 1 and 2 ISA slot versions, with either 5 or 6 PCI slots.. P2B's typically had 2 ISA slots..

Good quality BX boards can typically run at 133FSB, but your AGP card has to be able to tolerate 89MHz.. Or just use a PCI vidcard..

[Krankshaft]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

ISA is still common in Industrial machines.
CNC mills. Robotic controls in factories. Things like that.

And often,
The company that originally developed that ISA card and the software they depend on isn't even around anymore.

I figured there was still a niche market for them somewhere. I was thinking of the end user sector.

In that case I bet that mobo is industrially priced .

[Wizard]

Re: What's a HOT Motherboard with ISA?

Krankshaft is right. End user sector. Once this happens, time to go jump up to newer stuff and leave ISA to the pricy 500 bucks industrial boards that needs them.

I know there are few socket 478 and 775 boards does have floppy and should not cost much if you focus on basic features without extreme features that caters to the overclocking. Or use USB floppy.

Other day I was playing with bootable usb with DOS 6.22 on it and breeze editor for quick boot up (under 10 seconds) to use as communication tool with hearing people. Works well on D945GCLF atom board and other boards that supports USB boot. Does work on old Dell D600 (pentium mobile notebook).

Cost went like this: 76 for atom board, 17 for 1GB ram, and this usb drive, and provide your self with monitor and keyboard, mouse and basic power supply blah blah. Not very much cost. And passable on XP.

Pentium, you need to stop trying to fussing with old notebook that can only can use 98 maximum. I picked up a Thinkpad A21m last year and it was only 40 with 256MB and power brick, runs 2000 Pro pretty good and big score was XP COA sticker. And that was right off the craigslist's right in my city.

Keep LOOKING, you will find good deal. Try to find pentium mobile 1.2 to 2.0GHz MINIMUM notebook. The 200 pin DDR 400 ram is not expensive and still plentiful. Can be had for 20 bucks new 1GB for good brands.

Cheers, Wizard