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No, what I meant was actually using an LTE service, would that be an option? I know that's sometimes frowned upon, but you can get cheap plans from MVNO's like say Straight Talk for AT&T and pop that sim card into an LTE router. I've heard of businesses using this type of service before, so I went ahead and tried it out myself because of similar issues you're having. I ended up having the best of luck with Verizon myself, so I just found a cheap MVNO plan and stuffed it into an LTE router. Have that wired up as my backup ISP in case my other line goes down. I was using it as my daily ISP for a few months. Once you get the kinks worked out, it does work. You just have limited data is all, just like a cell phone.

Since I'm still waiting on the case, and I just happen to have dang near everything here for an AthlonXP build to be completed, I'm working on that today. Last night, I was able to get my AthlonXP rig working, installed Windows to it, and things seemed to be going pretty well. Tried to launch CPU-z on it to run a bench for the competition thread, and it locks up immediately. -_- Even though it had been rock solid and sitting pegged at 100% CPU usage doing updates and drivers for 6 hours. Ugh.....so yeah, still playing with that. Today in the mail: ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256MB (for this Socket A rig I'm working on) Some 64GB Compact Flash Cards, hopefully these will be faster than the 32GB I used 2x8GB DDR4-2666 for the Ryzen build coming And a HUGE shoutout to @damric!!!! We've got 3 2280 NVME drives now to play with!!! I'm not 110% decided yet where I'm going to place these at, and I may or may not have to buy some PCIe riser cards to stuff them into, but alas, these are going to be SUPER helpful. I've already got a home picked out for one of these already in my game rack server, but it absolutely will need a riser card to use it in there. No big deal. EDIT: And absolutely NONE of my Socket A kit seems to be working properly. I can get 2 of the setups to boot into Windows (all I need). But immediately upon any sort of load on either one of them, the system locks up. I've tried everything except a different PSU, as the Corsair RMX550 is the only PSU I have that has decent 5v rails at 25a available. I'm almost wondering if I need like 35+a on the 5v rails for the Socket A rigs. I really don't know. I've tried Radeon 9800XT, X800 Pro, X1950 Pro, and all 3 GPU's lock up at various stages in 3dmark03. When they do work, they're not artifacting or showing any sort of graphical issues, so I'm stumped. Almost seemed like a memory issue earlier, but I'm kinda leaning more towards I don't have enough 5v.....and I have no clue what to do about that.

This was one of the reasons I ended up going with multiple ISP's and bonding them together with failover. That sucks man. Hope you've got it all sorted out. Do you have any backup options? What about LTE?

Anytime, its up and ready to go for events. I personally am available to play on it at night, PST, but if we end up organizing a different time later on I might be able to shift things around and hop on.

Put me down for 10 please! My 14TB drives are getting full.......

After trial and error....... I figured out the Athlon x2 4200+ is faulty. it still works, but it is unhappy with HW memory hole enabled / above 2GB of RAM. The A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard will not POST at all. However I have success to report!!!!! I'm a little bummed with "only" 2.70GHz CPU speed, but whatever this is fine. Not very many people EVER have gotten even 4GB of RAM to work at decent speeds on Skt 939, let alone 8GB. 8GB was never a thing when this socket was used. I present where its p95'ing at RIGHT NOW. I even typed this post up on it while it's priming. The second 939 rig WILL live! Now, I just need the Chieftec Dragon, which I think arrives tomorrow, and its time to build it. EDIT: I was wrong. The case arrives Wednesday.

Please PM me if there's any issues, if you need a map change, or if there's mods you want to see put into it! It's pretty easy to drop mods into the server, so I can make changes pretty quickly so long as I'm at home to do so. Might use this post in the future for organized events maybe? But otherwise, thread is now completed enough and open for discussion!

Current Maps: (if modded map - click link and put zip in "C:\Users\<username>\Appdata\Roaming\BeamMP-launcher\Resources".) eXtremeGaming 1 - Motorsports Playground eXtremeGaming 2 - Roane County, TN, USA eXtremeGaming 3 - West Coast USA? eXtremeGaming 4 - Jungle Rock Island? Current Mod List: Mods of Mods: FBS 10-12" Lift Kit for D-Series and Roamer 1.1 Spaced Out: Wheel Spacers 22 1320 Offroad Wheel Pack 2.0b Brake Glow Mod 2.31 Realistic Headlights 1.29 Current Map List: GridMap v2 Automation Test Track East Coast USA Hirochi Raceway Italy Jungle Rock Island Industrial Small Island Smallgrid Utah West Coast USA Driver Training Derby Johnson Valley Motorsports Playground .30 Roane County, TN, USA

Actually pulled this thing apart (again) tonight on camera with a couple of the guys here at EHW. Set her up on the bench, trying to see what I could get it to do, make sure its working. So far, so good!!! I'm having some RAM issues, the KVR 4x1GB DDR400 I bought is dead. My KVR DDR400 ECC 4x2GB sticks I knew weren't going to work right, so those didn't work either even in 2x2GB array. I tried putting a couple of generic 1GB sticks in with the OCZ stuff I have laying around for the Socket A, that didn't work either....its very possible the generics are dead too, those were freebies years ago. The OCZ sticks work fine, but those are planned for the Socket A build. I know the 2.5-3-3-6 sticks are good in these boards, but finding a set of 4 that matches is near impossible. Sooo, I don't know what to do with it at this point. Can't find RAM for it. HOWEVER, I was able to successfully play Crysis for 45 minutes to an hour on it. Played GRiD for a bit and even Metro2033 Redux on it. All playable. I tried to get a brand new game working on it, "Stray", but kept getting at the end a DX11 error message saying the game needs DX11 shader model 5....which, the card supports. So, not sure there but whatever, 5 day old game on 20 year old hardware....I'll live with it not working.

"Unofficial" BeamMP Server For the game Beamng.drive (Image credited to a random youtube generated image) Welcome to the BeamMP mod for the game Beamng.drive! If you'd like to play on the server, you'll need the installer found below. Install Link: https://beammp.com/ Server Info: eXtremeGaming 1 (Hosted in WA state) - ONLINE eXtremeGaming 2 (Hosted in WA state) - ONLINE eXtremeGaming 3 (Hosted in Canada) - OFFLINE eXtremeGaming 4 (Hosted in Canada) - OFFLINE Mods Pack Download: You CAN get away with just connecting to the server and it'll automatically download the mods. It's 3.25GB+ currently though, you'll have a faster time downloading the mods directly and placing them in the correct folder. n/a If you were on the original mod pack download, I have also zipped up just a simple update file for anything I've added since then. Full mod pack download (above) is fully up to date with all mods. If you're missing any, please see the update links below to catch up. Updates: n/a Note: Put all of the zip files included into "C:\Users\(username)\Appdata\Roaming\BeamMP-Launcher\Resources" Extract, install. In order to play multiplayer, you really should launch the MP executable, it doesn't always pop up with multiplayer if you open the game through the original game's executable. Click on multiplayer from the main menu once the game launches, and then search for the server above! That's it! You CAN register a username in game, it usually goes off discord if I'm not mistaken. However you CAN also just skip the registration process and play as a guest. Completely up to you. You can add it to your favorites so you can always find it. Clients do NOT need to worry about any additional mods (unless you want to play single player). You will auto download the mods directly off the server. I have added a download link (above) however, to make the process faster as the mods list is growing pretty rapidly. Beamng.drive is a sandbox style driving simulation game. BeamMP is just a mod for it, the game is really based on the mods since its still in alpha stages. The idea here is that we can organize literally whatever type of autosports events we want virtually! We can go racing, we can just cruise city streets, drifting, 4x4'ing, mud bogging, even flying if we pop some airplanes into the server. Whatever we want to do, that's what we can do. I'd like to see perhaps weekly events if we can get more of the community to play it. Hopefully I'll see you around! Let's go driving!

Well..... Kiddo got himself grounded last weekend.... As far as I know it's functioning great. It was getting a little hot, 80c loads. I have quite a few gpu's like that right now though. So it's actually been powered off since about Sunday I think. He'll get it back next weekend assuming good behavior. It's certainly a huge upgrade from his temporary 960 he had, and a perfectly fine temporary place holder till I can score a cheap Vega for the build (planned card for the ryzen 2600 build). I'll regrease cards later on, 80c isn't going to kill anything. My 2900xt dang near idles there..... He's excited to play "Stray" now, I got him a copy of that. Should be an interesting game, my main rig does fine with it but it's certainly graphically intensive.

MX-5, stock 754 cooler, another 5.25 bay adapter, and 4x1gb kvr ddr400 arrived today. Probably no pictures, I'll be busy testing junk. I think my black chieftec dragon comes in Monday. With any luck I'll have the 939 functional and just need to transplant into the case Monday. If I have time tonight, I'd like to see about getting the Athlon Xp functional, I could just about finish it if everything tests out okay. I also mentioned my K6 in the cpuz bench thread, so we'll see about that too. If anyone is interested, I might stream my shenanigans on the ehw discord, but you'll have to deal with me disappearing from time to time. I'm not really sure where to begin with it yet. The only one I could potentially "finish" would be the Athlon xp, but without the 939 functional to create media and lacking working cf cards I just don't know.

My MX-5 arrives today.......do I dare see if I can get a CPUz bench on Windows 98? I'm not sure if it'll run, and I'd be kinda going out of order on these rigs I'm working on...... Once I get in gear tonight working on things, I'll see if I can do just that, and I'll do a quick K6 run. If not, I wanted to test my Socket A builds anyway. Wouldn't be hard to put XP on one of those.

Yeah, we'll have to figure out who's all willing to stream games, and maybe just not stream the games in the discord, but instead use discord for the voice functions. Share the stream on social media / YT or whatever instead so audio can be played, and we can capture our voices playing it too. Something like that, idk. I'm no streamer. Like I said, I was just playing with my toys to see what I could do with them lol. The server's been changed to motorsports playground for now. I'm happy to host any games I happen to have on hand on the server, so that's always a feature I can implement. I have about 12Mbps upload, so not the greatest upload, but its got 32 cores dedicated to it from Broadwell Xeons and 32GB of RAM, soon an NVME possibly. I can upgrade my ISP up to gig / gig, but the cost just isn't something I can work with right now.

Yeah, sorry about the audio issues. I could fix it by just screensharing, but that doesn't show my wheel inputs.

I'll be going live in the EHW Discord with my BeamMP server. Just playing around with more junk I have laying around bwahahaha. Figured out a way to use my phone as a webcam, so ya'll can see my steering wheel inputs and also my screen. Resolution probably isn't the greatest, but it should be viewable. Anyway, if anyone wants to pop in (or join me in game), feel free! I think it'd be kind of fun to have an EHW gaming night maybe someday soon. Personally, my favorite games are racing, but hey....I'll livestream the events if others want to start joining too! If we start actually having gaming sessions together at some point, I'll record the events so they can be posted in the videos section of the site too.

You know, one of these days I'm going to fire up my K6, and all low speed records will be lost.

So far site's working great *knocks on wood. I was even able to get into my build log thread successfully a few times today, which has been a bear all week.

Hopefully better than ever too!

Disclaimer, I am now cross posting these builds on 2 forums, here and another as of 7-22-22. I will not link, nor advertise between the 2. Has nothing to do with anything, other than having an additional source of assistance and sharing it with some other friends. This in no way changes my opinions on EHW, or my love for helping our community here. I am not doing any of these builds for profit, its all for myself and my kid. These older systems are long forgotten, and I'm going to be needing all the help I can get to make them functional in terms of advice and part picking. I just wanted to say that for liability reasons / legal reasons whatever. I feel bad cross posting when the EHW / OCN community has been my home since 2007. But guys, these old rigs are hard! The other forum I'm posting on, again, I will not link, is more suited for the old systems and a small community I was already a part of anyway years ago. I know this sounds a little rough with a few of my past comments in here, but I promise, the issue I was having was resolved. This disclaimer was just because I felt bad cross posting it somewhere else. ------------------------------ I will of course, be continuing the build log and I've got some fantastic ideas on how I can showcase these once they're all at 100%. All the orders I just did recently should start arriving Monday. So hopefully we'll see the second 939 up, a Ryzen 1400 up, and with any luck a Socket A rig running live very very soon. That will leave the other Socket A and the really old K6 rig left, which brings me to...... Also, a slight update, I contacted a local body shop yesterday. They were willing to work on PC cases, they want me to bring down my Chieftec Dragon and my other old beige box for the K6 build and get a quote going. They're booked out until October. I'm not going to build these rigs ugly.

Absolutely I could. I have 7 on the working 939 now, I ran Vista on them back in the day. As of right now, I'm just trying to make sure everything WORKS first. I do believe the finished 939 probably will end up with Vista x64 on it. Still kind of scatterbrained on what OS for what rig to be honest lol, but yes there will be Vista rigs. The one I'm playing with right now (I accidentally built 2 939's), the goal with it is to be able to use it daily because I miss 939, and to be able to utilize it for working on the even older rigs. Making ISO's, burning discs, copying files to ZIP, or even preparing CF cards (what I'll be using for OS drives), whatever I need it for. It'll also have my Hauppage TV tuner in it, so I can use it to rip VHS tapes. Phenom 9850 would probably be a "later" Vista build. Socket 754 Athlon64 is more suited for Windows XP I think. But yeah, like I said, still scatterbrained on what software for what rig so far.

I was trying to update the thread earlier. Ordered a Ryzen 1400 kit too. Nothing fancy, but I am missing a Ryzen 1000 setup of my own still. Ryzen 1400, ASRock B350m, and 16GB of I think it was PNY DDR4-2666 on the way for that too. Wasn't too terribly expensive, pretty sure it was right around the $100 mark or so for all of that. Already had everything else for the rig, so why not? I bought the other parts thinking I'd put a Haswell i7 in that build for my son for school, but nah, might as well do a missing Ryzen. Stupid paypal credit calling my name. I swear ebaying should be considered an addiction too.

Good to know you've got a good idea on it now. Earlier, just right after you posted, the same bug probably.... Was causing my desktop browser to crash when I'd try to open my musuem build log thread. Thread would load, rigs all down the page were circling, then browser crashed. I assume it's related. I'm on mobile now trying to get some rest, but wanted to let you know that just in case.

These are neat, but to be perfectly honest I'm a lot more interested in AMD's low power offerings these days. My 2500u laptop still rocks along absolutely fantastically, and the Steam Deck is getting rave reviews just about everywhere. Regardless, @Diffident is correct about the price. The point of the Pi is that its stupid low cost (not anymore lately, but used to be).

Agreed. I don't even really want one, I just want to play with it for a bit. At $192 dollars (according to the article), I figured it was worth a shot to play with it a few days and resell it later.