That's the class of machine I usually run Asterisk, AllStar, IRLP, and other similar stuff on.
I pick them up cheap at the local surplus stores, they are lease returns from places that were running Windows XP on them.
I have a handful of them in daily production use, mostly running the PBX in a Flash distribution of Asterisk.   
You only need a Gig of ram (maybe less) and a 40 gig hard drive is plenty.

If it's going on a hill or other remote place, check the fans and hard drive carefully,
and look for swollen capacitors on the mother board. 


On Mar 2, 2013, at 1:17 PM, pete M <petem001@hotmail.com> wrote:

Ok I think I have a 2.6ghz penthium 4 system around... I hope this will run ok on it,
 
 
 
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Really need some advice here..
 
That's way more motherboard than you need.  You might try a simpler motherboard to test.  Pretty much anything with a single Pentium 4 or better should work fine.
 
Otherwise there are a bunch of APIC flags you can turn off at kernel boot time, but that gets a bit trickier.
 
I also recommend running memtest386+ on any new system for a day or so to make sure you don't have memory or hardware problems,


On Mar 2, 2013, at 10:51 AM, "Pierre Martel" <petem001@hotmail.com> wrote:

Ok I finnaly got the ok to switch everything from the rc-210 to app_rpt based controler.
I eveb got a board with a dual amd cpu 2 gig ram ect..
Now Acid wont install no matter what I do. If I clear anything about APIC in the Bios that make a kernel panic at boot of the install dsik it will fail giving all sort of crash information for hours..
I got version 6.3 centos for x86_64 to run, but If I try to start phase1.sh so that the install script from acid try to load, it will tell me bad version of centos and stop..
Anyone can point me in a direction where to go from here?
I am totally lost, but fast to catch up and learn.
Pierre
VE2PF
Dude??? some help please??
;-)
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