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This is kinda cool: I bought two NOS OEM copies of NT4WS (for work) off eBay from two different sellers. And as per MS/eBay rules, OEM copies must be sold w/ a piece of hardware.
So, one of them came w/ a small manilla envelope containing four 30-pin 4MB simms. So I popped those into my 486 (seeing how there's 8 slots on the mobo) and they're functional. So I'm now at 32MB (16 before).
The other seller sent a WD 420MB harddrive w/ the other copy. So I tried that as a slave on the same system and it also appeared functional. Was able to fdisk & format it in DOS (wonderful!). Then I found an old copy of Ontrack and transferred everything from the old drive (Seagate 270MB) to the WD. Now the WD is the boot drive and all's working well. Funny, also, that the desktop has a harddrive bay UNDER the power supply.
Not a bad deal IMO. Free upgrades for my old 486 in exchange for buying two cheap copies of NT4 for my employer (plus I'll get reinbursed!).
Oh yeah, one other thing: I'd like to change the LED speed display on the case to reflect the 100 MHz chip. Someone upped it using an Evergreen chip but the display still shows "33." But I only have two digits to work with, so I thought either "99" or "1C." Any other ideas?

LOL @ dominicus.If ou dont want to do that look on the back of the lcd.I dont know about yours but i have a few lcd's that can be adjusted to read different things depending how you set the switches or jumpers.
P.s. one of these old lcds are great sorces of extra jumpers. ;)

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