compatible intel four-core motherboards for BeOS?
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone out there has successfully got BeOS to use all four cores of an Intel processor on any specific motherboards. I found a great article here:
http://littlebluerodent.tripod.com/MIDI/Modern_hardware.htm
on how to get BeOS to run on a DFI Infinity P965-S motherboard, but these MB's are hard to find. The author suggest using the DFI P35-T2L or P35-T2RL which are much easier to find, but said he's not sure if they are compatible or not. I could buy MB's, but that would get expensive very fast if they don't work. The main issue is if the MB's BIOS settings has specifically "MPS" (multi processor support) as a choice in the menu. Newer boards use a newer mlti-processor setup that BeOS doesn't support. I mainly want to be able to turn the four cores on and off. Full-native support is very unlikely, but not a problem because supported cards can be added (ethernet, sound, video, etc.) Thanks for any help.
Edit: I forgot to mention that Haiku would probably work on a 4-core intel processor, but since we are using BeOS with Tunetracker as our FM radio station's automation computer, we want to upgrade the computer itself and re-install the Tunetracker version we purchased. The version we have won't work under Haiku.
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Re: compatible intel four-core motherboards for BeOS?
I would strong recommend you to use Haiku instead of BeOS, unless you want to hack drivers for almost every thing for BeOS.
Re: compatible intel four-core motherboards for BeOS?
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I had forgotten to mention in my original post that we are trying to upgrade our FM radio station's automation computer which presently runs BeOS 5 with Tunetracker, but the version of Tunetracker we bought won't run under Haiku. A quad intel processor would significantly improve the processing time of generating daily playlists, plus, after finding a motherboard/quad-cpu that works, I'd like to put together a second identical computer for personal use and partition it to run BeOS and Haiku.
Re: compatible intel four-core motherboards for BeOS?
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I had forgotten to mention in my original post that we are trying to upgrade our FM radio station's automation computer which presently runs BeOS 5 with Tunetracker, but the version of Tunetracker we bought won't run under Haiku. A quad intel processor would significantly improve the processing time of generating daily playlists, plus, after finding a motherboard/quad-cpu that works, I'd like to put together a second identical computer for personal use and partition it to run BeOS and Haiku.
Maybe you should contact TuneTracker themselves, it's time to move on to Haiku, really.
Re: compatible intel four-core motherboards for BeOS?
Maybe you should contact TuneTracker themselves, it's time to move on to Haiku, really.
Diogen stand correct, TuneTracker has to deploy their software to haiku or provide a "Zeta OS" version but honestly Haiku is far a head than Zeta currently, well i do believe that.
Good luck KP3ft
Re: compatible intel four-core motherboards for BeOS?
Hi DioGen,
Thanks for your reply. Tunetracker already has a version working for Haiku; from what I understand they just need to finish up a couple details. It's an amazing system and works flawlessly since went on the air eight years ago. I want to upgrade to the Hailu version in a couple years.
At this point, we are using up our resources to rebuild the radio transmission system (tower, base, antenna, etc.) because it was destroyed by a runaway vehicle. We're non-profit and operated by volunteers, so frugality is necessary. While I run Haiku for personal use, I also like BeOS because it's a part of history, and I want to see the maximum hardware it will run on.
Re: compatible intel four-core motherboards for BeOS?
i have a biostar motherboard g41d3c
https://sites.google.com/site/biostarg41d3c/can i use can it run BeOS?
Re: compatible intel four-core motherboards for BeOS?
I appreciate your problem, but we have a contingent here who weren't even born when BeOS first came out, and not many of the rest us run BeOS at all any more, except maybe in a VM which we fire up once a month out of nostalgia. It just is not something on which we are building up expertise. Is there a Tunetracker forum you can ask?