SUN Ultra 5 with SunPCI-II Card

[Artlace]

I have a Sun Ultra-5 with SunPCI card installed.

It has 256MB (2x128MB) RAM and 80GB HDD installed and comes with Solaris 7. It supports up to Solaris 10 but that definitely needs more RAM and only two slots of four are populated. It also sports a 400MHz UltraSparc IIi.

It also has a CDROM drive and comes with the Solaris 7 installer and the SunPCI 2.2.2 software.

I installed the SunPCI software too and even ran Win98 with it. Unfortunately by using remote display the SunPCI window remains empty but an external monitor shows the output of the PC card. The SunPCI has 128MB installed but it has one more slot free.







The Ultra5 is missing its front right "foot" which doesn't affect the integrity of the box at all. It's just a decoration.

Looking for £50 (paypal as a gift) plus postage (free to UK).

 

[Artlace]

I got a keyboard and a mouse. This is how it looks on its own monitor:



Now the IDProm failed until it was sitting dormant so price is still £50. The machine boots but loses time and has a bogus MAC address which can be fixed with a little ritual at each power-on (not warm-reset or Stop-A).

 

[Artlace]

Here is another picture, running at 1024x768 24-bit without palette swap.

 

[martorellcarles]

Interested, pending some questions (PM Later)

EDIT: I withdrawn my interest, answered some questions by myself... it's a beast of computer, too much for me...

Thanks.

 

[Artlace]

Well yes it's a beast, at least it's heavy.

In theory it can be overclocked too but for a little gain and also supports memory interleaving with at least 4 modules (it has 4 modules populated) and can handle up to 1GB memory if the floppy drive is removed. The 128MB modules are too tall.

 

[zyberguy]

Do I understand correct? I see that it can install SunOS, MAC OS and Windows!

 

[Artlace]

No. The first few pictures were made using XQuartz and connecting remotely to the Ultra when it didn't have a keyboard and it defaulted to serial console instead of its monitor.

For the rest you're right, you can install SunOS (up to Solaris 10 if you expand the memory) and Windows (and a few others) on the SunPCI-II card.

SunOS 5.7 (Solaris 7 - with the install cd) is included.