Info from Cubik :
Parts selection The PC motherboard needs PCI and 1 x ISA slot. We have found that a Pentium 4 at 2Ghz or more works really well as a system.
Our favourite motherboard is the Itox G4V620 series. There are some sites selling these NOS and quite a few on Ebay, sold as “Refurbished”
I use 1Gb RAM, a new case, new CPU fan and SSD sat on a raid card in a PCI card with Sil3114 chipset.
Files etc.Motherboard drivers
NUSB dependant on your W98SE release. (Win98 generic USB memory stick driver)
Imagenation PXC200A drivers and PXC13 software :
http://www.imagenation.com/dnpages/pxc_files.htmlThe RV install files (Pinned in software thread) and The .DAT file for your machine
PC BuildBuild the basics of the system first, ignore the RV cards for now.
Set the Bios for “optimised” settings to get you going.
I use W98 SE so that the USB is properly supported.
Before you start installation, download the drivers for the motherboard. I have found that often, as the OS loads and before you load the drivers, you can lose the IDE interface, so the CD will no longer be recognised!
What I have done is get the install progressed as far as I can, then drop the SSD into another machine to copy the motherboard drivers onto the SSD (in a new folder) and then install the drivers in safe mode once the SSD is back in your target hardware. It’s a bit of a pain but it does work.
Once you have a working W98 install (which should be lightning fast by the way) you can start customising it for the RV. Make sure the USB works properly before you move forward and there are no unrecognised devices in device manager.
PC customisation for RVIn the bios:
Set PNP OS to YES
In IRQ resources, set IRQ 3 and IRQ 5 to Legacy ISA
Turn off any devices which you don’t intend to use, for example built in sound etc
Turn Hardware Acceleration to minimum to help with RVPlace Freezing issue
Have a look at your DSP card. Rev 3 does not have serial ports, Rev 4 does.
If you are using a Rev 4 card, disable the motherboard COM ports.

Next, install the frame grabber and power the PC up.
On running windows up, it will ask for a driver for the frame grabber, click cancel
Install the PXC13 software
Reboot
Once its installed and running, go to Start Imagenation PXC200A Samples 4CAM Sample
If the software and card is working you should see 4 black (sometimes Blue) windows – there won’t be any video as the cameras are not connected.
Close the windows by closing the top Right panel.
Next, install the RV software by clicking on Setup in install files
Make sure RVGerber is version 2.8 (Not 2.5). You can just copy it from the installed files to the \RV folder.
Create a desktop shortcut to c:\versatronics\rv – you will need this a lot!
If you are rebuilding a machine, copy the DAT folder from the old install into the new PC. This contains all of the machine calibration data, it sits in \rv\dat
Shut the machine down and install the DSP board.
Connect to the RV hardware in the usual way
The machine should now run as usual but will be super-fast and reliable due to the SSD.
Desktop shortcutsIf you want to put shortcuts on your desktop to RVPLACE etc, first generate them in the usual way, then right click and properties. Ensure that “Start in” is set to C:\versatronics\RV\
Bios settings for Itox G4V240 :


Cloning a PC hard drive
Put the new drive in the system
Boot W98
Open a command prompt
Run FDISK
Select the new drive (option 5)
Create a primary partition
Exit FDISK
Reboot
Check that you can see the new drive (you wont be able to use it but should be able to see it)
Open a command prompt
Run FORMAT d: /S and let it run
From the command prompt run
XCOPY32 C: D: /S/H/R/C/K/Y/Q
That should do the trick!