Motherboards for Dual Core CPU

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Hi,



I’m a registered owner of QNX 6.3 (OS, IDE, run-times, support plan).
Currently I’m thinking about buying a new, fast PC to run QNX on (the IDE in
the latest 6.3SP is getting really heavy). I understand that QNX is
compatible and will even run well on Dual Core CPUs (like Intel Pentium 4
(8XX series) and Pentium D (9XX series)). For this I’ll need an Intel 945
series motherboard minimum (that’s all PCI-E,SATA,etc.), but I don’t want to
buy the rig and later find out that QNX doesn’t work on it.



So I recently tried to install the QNX eval CD on my PC at home (which has
an Intel 915 motherboard, pure PCI-Express and Serial ATA HD). This setup
seems totally incompatible with QNX. In fact, I tried installing the eval CD
on various modern rigs, all unsuccessful. USB keyboards/mice, SATA HD and
new Intel motherboards all seem to cause problems during installation or at
1st boot (read: no way to succesfully install QNX).



The QNX Hardware Support on the QNX homepage doesn’t seem to give any info
on supported CPUs or motherboards. It does specify compatible with some SATA
(but apparently not all).



My question is: What modern Dell machine or Intel CPU/motherboard config,
that are for sale CURRENTLY, will install+run QNX?



All help is greatly appreciated!



Joost de Folter.

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Joost de Folter wrote:

Hi,



I’m a registered owner of QNX 6.3 (OS, IDE, run-times, support plan).
Currently I’m thinking about buying a new, fast PC to run QNX on (the IDE in
the latest 6.3SP is getting really heavy). I understand that QNX is
compatible and will even run well on Dual Core CPUs (like Intel Pentium 4
(8XX series) and Pentium D (9XX series)). For this I’ll need an Intel 945
series motherboard minimum (that’s all PCI-E,SATA,etc.), but I don’t want to
buy the rig and later find out that QNX doesn’t work on it.



So I recently tried to install the QNX eval CD on my PC at home (which has
an Intel 915 motherboard, pure PCI-Express and Serial ATA HD). This setup
seems totally incompatible with QNX. In fact, I tried installing the eval CD
on various modern rigs, all unsuccessful. USB keyboards/mice, SATA HD and
new Intel motherboards all seem to cause problems during installation or at
1st boot (read: no way to succesfully install QNX).



The QNX Hardware Support on the QNX homepage doesn’t seem to give any info
on supported CPUs or motherboards. It does specify compatible with some SATA
(but apparently not all).

http://www.qnx.com/developers/hardware_support/index.html


–Armin

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Thank you, I know the site, I even refer to it in my post.

Unfortunately it doesn’t specify the info I need. The CPU list shows
compatibility with Pentium 4 (asuming also the new ones), but dual core
Pentium D is not in the list (which means it’s not compatible or not
considered yet?). Most important, I can’t find any info on motherboards
compatibility (or chipsets).

Thanks

Joost.


“Armin Steinhoff” <a-steinhoff@web.de> escribió en el mensaje
news:e02sfd$k87$1@inn.qnx.com…

Joost de Folter wrote:
Hi,



I’m a registered owner of QNX 6.3 (OS, IDE, run-times, support plan).
Currently I’m thinking about buying a new, fast PC to run QNX on (the IDE
in the latest 6.3SP is getting really heavy). I understand that QNX is
compatible and will even run well on Dual Core CPUs (like Intel Pentium 4
(8XX series) and Pentium D (9XX series)). For this I’ll need an Intel 945
series motherboard minimum (that’s all PCI-E,SATA,etc.), but I don’t want
to buy the rig and later find out that QNX doesn’t work on it.



So I recently tried to install the QNX eval CD on my PC at home (which
has an Intel 915 motherboard, pure PCI-Express and Serial ATA HD). This
setup seems totally incompatible with QNX. In fact, I tried installing
the eval CD on various modern rigs, all unsuccessful. USB keyboards/mice,
SATA HD and new Intel motherboards all seem to cause problems during
installation or at 1st boot (read: no way to succesfully install QNX).



The QNX Hardware Support on the QNX homepage doesn’t seem to give any
info on supported CPUs or motherboards. It does specify compatible with
some SATA (but apparently not all).

http://www.qnx.com/developers/hardware_support/index.html


–Armin

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Joost de Folter <joost.defolter@innovamedica.com.mx> wrote:

Hi,



I’m a registered owner of QNX 6.3 (OS, IDE, run-times, support plan).
Currently I’m thinking about buying a new, fast PC to run QNX on (the IDE in
the latest 6.3SP is getting really heavy). I understand that QNX is
compatible and will even run well on Dual Core CPUs (like Intel Pentium 4
(8XX series) and Pentium D (9XX series)). For this I’ll need an Intel 945
series motherboard minimum (that’s all PCI-E,SATA,etc.), but I don’t want to
buy the rig and later find out that QNX doesn’t work on it.

Have you considered buying a kick-ass PC, installing VMWare on it and
running QNX in a VM? I know QNX4 performs well in VM’s; perhaps someone
else can share their experience with QNX6 on VM’s. In any case, IMHO
virtualization is the future.

regards,
rick

5

We have QNX Nuetrino v6.3.0 (SP2 and 6.3.2) running in the lab on the Intel®
Desktop Board D955XBK
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d955xbk/index.htm
With a Pentium 4 Processor Extreme Edition (with HT).

You need to set the BIOS for SATA to emulate PATA or use the PATA interface
for the drive.
We needed to update the supplied BIOS with the latest BIOS from Intel’s
site. (lots of hardware issues fixed since the board was released)
We used an ATI x300 ePCI graphics card and installed the graphics patch from
myQNX to enable accelerated graphics.
I used a PCI network card, built-in networking will be supported in a future
release.

Joost de Folter <> joost.defolter@innovamedica.com.mx> > wrote:
Hi,



I’m a registered owner of QNX 6.3 (OS, IDE, run-times, support plan).
Currently I’m thinking about buying a new, fast PC to run QNX on (the IDE
in
the latest 6.3SP is getting really heavy). I understand that QNX is
compatible and will even run well on Dual Core CPUs (like Intel Pentium 4
(8XX series) and Pentium D (9XX series)). For this I’ll need an Intel 945
series motherboard minimum (that’s all PCI-E,SATA,etc.), but I don’t want
to
buy the rig and later find out that QNX doesn’t work on it.

Have you considered buying a kick-ass PC, installing VMWare on it and
running QNX in a VM? I know QNX4 performs well in VM’s; perhaps someone
else can share their experience with QNX6 on VM’s. In any case, IMHO
virtualization is the future.

regards,
rick

6

Hello,

In case of yours intention to use a hardware exactly in the dual core
configuration this information will probably useful for you.

We used the following currently commercial available desktop parts (CPU & MB)
for multicore configuration tests:

CPU: Intel Pentium D, model 820
MB: Asus P5LD2 i945P bios ver.1003

Here is a pidin’s output (QNX Neutrino 6.3.2 and procnto-smp from MC TDK):

pidin in

CPU:X86 Release:6.3.2 FreeMem:1015Mb/1023Mb BootTime:Apr 20 19:41:13 MSKS 2006
Processor1: 1586 Intel ?86 F15M4S4 2817MHz FPU
Processor2: 1586 Intel ?86 F15M4S4 2816MHz FPU

Regards,
Igor.

Joost de Folter wrote:

Hi,



I’m a registered owner of QNX 6.3 (OS, IDE, run-times, support plan).
Currently I’m thinking about buying a new, fast PC to run QNX on (the IDE in
the latest 6.3SP is getting really heavy). I understand that QNX is
compatible and will even run well on Dual Core CPUs (like Intel Pentium 4
(8XX series) and Pentium D (9XX series)). For this I’ll need an Intel 945
series motherboard minimum (that’s all PCI-E,SATA,etc.), but I don’t want to
buy the rig and later find out that QNX doesn’t work on it.



So I recently tried to install the QNX eval CD on my PC at home (which has
an Intel 915 motherboard, pure PCI-Express and Serial ATA HD). This setup
seems totally incompatible with QNX. In fact, I tried installing the eval CD
on various modern rigs, all unsuccessful. USB keyboards/mice, SATA HD and
new Intel motherboards all seem to cause problems during installation or at
1st boot (read: no way to succesfully install QNX).



The QNX Hardware Support on the QNX homepage doesn’t seem to give any info
on supported CPUs or motherboards. It does specify compatible with some SATA
(but apparently not all).



My question is: What modern Dell machine or Intel CPU/motherboard config,
that are for sale CURRENTLY, will install+run QNX?



All help is greatly appreciated!



Joost de Folter.
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“Joost de Folter” <joost.defolter@innovamedica.com.mx> wrote in message
news:e01u8p$2k8$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hi,



I’m a registered owner of QNX 6.3 (OS, IDE, run-times, support plan).
Currently I’m thinking about buying a new, fast PC to run QNX on (the IDE
in the latest 6.3SP is getting really heavy). I understand that QNX is
compatible and will even run well on Dual Core CPUs (like Intel Pentium 4
(8XX series) and Pentium D (9XX series)). For this I’ll need an Intel 945
series motherboard minimum (that’s all PCI-E,SATA,etc.), but I don’t want
to buy the rig and later find out that QNX doesn’t work on it.

Runs fine in dual core mode on a DFI lan expert, with AMD3800X2.

Not sure if SATA works i’m using PATA (my guess is it wouldn’t work)

Keyboard and mouse are PS2, don’t know if USB works or not.

So I recently tried to install the QNX eval CD on my PC at home (which has
an Intel 915 motherboard, pure PCI-Express and Serial ATA HD). This setup
seems totally incompatible with QNX. In fact, I tried installing the eval
CD on various modern rigs, all unsuccessful. USB keyboards/mice, SATA HD
and new Intel motherboards all seem to cause problems during installation
or at 1st boot (read: no way to succesfully install QNX).



The QNX Hardware Support on the QNX homepage doesn’t seem to give any info
on supported CPUs or motherboards. It does specify compatible with some
SATA (but apparently not all).



My question is: What modern Dell machine or Intel CPU/motherboard config,
that are for sale CURRENTLY, will install+run QNX?



All help is greatly appreciated!



Joost de Folter.
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