Hello, I recently acquired a working ps2 tool kit off of ebay for reasonable price and unfortunately it has the PCI-586VE-S Card with the Socket 7 Intel 233MMX and 2x32Mb 72 pin EDO Memory sticks. From what I've read so far on this forum is that this card is very slow when compared to the more desirable PCI-815VE Socket 307 Celeron 533Mhz and 128Mb of Ram. Sadly the PCI-815VE is rare and usually it can't be bought for a decent price that is assuming your lucky enough to find one. So my idea is to replace/upgrade the current SBC (Single Board Computer) PCI Card to a similar or faster card such as one of these below; 1. ROBO-6711VGA - Features; - mPGA479M socket to support 533/400MHz FSB Mirco-FCPGA type Pentium M and Celeron M type processor - Support DDR 333/266/200 SODIM module, up to 1GB system memory and integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2.0 with DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) that ensures the most efficient use of system memory - Support dual display over VGA, LVDS interfaces - Equipped one Giga Ethernet port on-board - Audio out, Watch-dog timer, Type II CompactFlash socket, 4 USB 2.0 ports - One 40-pin IDE channel and one 44-pin - IDE channel (dedicated for 2.5” hard drive connection) 2. Advantech PCI-6881 - Features; - Intel Embedded new generation Pentium M (Banias) LV/ULV or Dothan Processor, up to 2.0 GHz - Fanless operation at 0 ~ 60° C (PCI-6881F-M0A2 & PCI-6881FG-M0A2 & PCI-6881F-S0A2 & PCI-6881FG-S0A2) - On-board PCI VGA/LVDS display - Supports 1000Base-T Ethernet on board - Supports 4 x USB 2.0 ports - Supports 2 Channels 36-bit LVDS for LCD - Supports 400 MHz Front Side Bus - Accepts 128/256/512 bit technologies DDR 200/266/333 DRAM up to 2GB 3. EmCORE-i6319 - Features; - CPU Socket 370 for Intel Celeron, Pentium III, Tualatin - Chipset VIA CLE266 and VT8237 - Bus Clock 66,100,133MHz - L2 Cache Integrated in CPU - BIOS 4Mbit PnP Flash BIOS - System Memory 1 x 184-pin DIMM sockets Maximum of 1GB DDR266 RAM Note; For greater detail look at the manuals online or some websites. Note; Any one of these can be found on ebay for under a $100 or more. So what I'd like to know from anyone who has a deep understanding or an idea of how the ps2 tool kit is designed why this may or may not work. If this is not possible due to design or hardware configuration then please do explain to me in detail and to others who are might interested in the same idea as me why. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
The PC in it is slow, but shouldn't be much of a problem because it serves as a communications processor. If you put a board in that is too new, I don't know if the ancient version of Linux on the TOOL will be able to properly control the new peripherals.