Re: Think I junked my Slot 1 CPU cooler.
Posted on 2021-12-23, 08:07
You could zip tie them or use long enough case screws to secure it. I did the former to an Athlon 750MHz Slot A and the latter to a P2 266MHz.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-12-22, 08:03
Mmm, that 7200 repair was nice. Shame that I (very likely) threw my 9000 AIW away, would've surely loved to fix it using your techniques. Please spread the word. If you're going yo throw these things away, there is probably someone here to who may be able to fix it or would otherwise be useful for …
Re: Asus P2B Motherboard: No support for PIII?
Posted on 2021-12-21, 19:14
I used brand new ASUS 80 conductor cables from a NOS 775 mobo, no dice with either. Also tried a whole lot of other 80 cond. cables with no luck.
Re: Asus P2B Motherboard: No support for PIII?
Posted on 2021-12-21, 15:20
Sorry if I hijack this thread, but has anyone ever gotten a 40GB HDD to work on their P2B? (as in P2B, no -F, -B or anything. Plain old P2B - not sure about the revision I have but I think it's 1.02.) I have this issue where EVEN after updating the BIOS to the latest I can't get any 40GB (and …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-12-21, 12:17
Mmm, that 7200 repair was nice. Shame that I (very likely) threw my 9000 AIW away, would've surely loved to fix it using your techniques.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-12-21, 09:14
Other option is to burn a new Flash ROM for it, but I need to figure out what options I have to do that with at this point since I don't have an EEPROM burner (at least, not yet). I'm going to see which board I can get to boot first and then probably sell the one that does not work to whoever can …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-12-19, 11:44
PcChips M590 Super Socket 7, 3xPCI, 2x ISA, 2x DIMM, 2x 72 pin SIMM, on-board sound and video. I have the same unknown PCI Video card attached to this one as well as I don't have a connector for the on-board video header. It has an AMD K6-2 333MHz CPU in the socket, and 64MB of DIMM memory in both …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-12-18, 17:05
No, he's actually right. The SI5PI was before the PCChips merger so no issue with it. The K7S5A however, is one of the VERY VERY few boards that were actually decent in the post-PCChips merger. The other few I know of were the K7S6A (SiS748 I think?), K7VZA (KT133) and that's about it. Oh, and their …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-12-18, 16:38
They surprisingily still exist. https://iomagic.com/ The funniest thing I saw on their site just now is that holographic keyboard. It's like yhey're keeping ECS, Deer, L&C and PCChips' tradition of being cheap, sketchy and yet never going out of business.
Re: Test and troubleshoot PC@LIVE motherboards
Posted on 2021-12-17, 20:30
Try Uniflash. It should very likely be able to find and flash the chip. The reason I say this is because AWDFLASH might be restricted to a certain range of chips while UNIFLASH supports all of them.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-12-17, 19:31
That's the single socket version unfortunately. Also as far as I could find, there's no way of adding the 2nd socket, even though the whole silkscreen + solder pads are there.
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-12-17, 14:38
Hi, not quite a dumpster but I just excavated (literally, these things were buried under a decade or two's worth of other random junk!) a few old late-1990s/early-2000s "desktop" PCs from my cellar: Dell GX150 PIII 800MHz Dell GX110 PIII (maybe PIII 800MHz?) x 2 Siemens Nixdorf Scenic Pro C5 ( …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-12-17, 08:15
Just found a Freeway FW-6400GX / 150 Slot1 + Slot 2 board on eBay ...Slot 2 takes the PIII Xeons right ? Im now wondering if I can shove one of the PIII Xeons I have in it, if so ..I might just buy it. As far as I could find, it should support it. If m1919 is reading this, let us know if your mobo …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-12-17, 07:19
Speaking of custom PCBs, didn't ABIT's ST6 come in a white variant as well?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-12-15, 12:00
I bought a bunch of PCI-E cards.. A Radeon HD4870X2, a GTX480 and a GTX780. Untested, and belonged to seller's son, and were placed in a cupboard after upgrading. They are supposed to work. I paid only $35 for the lot, so even if only one of them work, I'll be good I guess.. Right.. So the man just …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-12-14, 21:34
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken it's there to play audio CDs while the laptop is powered off.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-12-14, 19:48
Came in last Saturday, think I forgot to post it up here. Paid about $47.13 with shipping (207RON). https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=125701 https://i.postimg.cc/tRhK0h96/20211212-203337.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Jhf2vhgK/20211212-203352.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/BvKhT06F/20211212- …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-12-13, 09:20
TrashPanda wrote on 2021-12-13, 04:04: EvieSigma wrote on 2021-12-13, 03:44: I've never seen a blue CPU socket before, that's something else. IIRC it signifies that it supports Tualatin CPUs, lets you tell at a glance, never seen anyone besides Gigabyte use it tho. Soyo had it too, on the SY- …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-12-11, 14:27
The Socket 7 machine might have an L&C/Deer PSU so I'd take caution trying to power it up.
Re: The perils of pre-installed heatsinks when ordering retro hardware
Posted on 2021-12-11, 14:22
AFAIK Pentium IIIs were WAY more tougher than Duron/Athlon when it came to mounting a HSF in reverse. Though, shouldn't the HSF itself show some resistance when trying to mount it backwards?
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