Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-26, 13:47
evasive wrote on 2020-05-26, 13:44: Erm yeah. I take it, that's a "no no", as in "avoid like the plague"?
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-26, 13:34
Well, here you go. And the price was 5 bucks with shipping, with half that being shipping. So I'm skeptical.
Re: I've created a (Dual Xeon) monster and it's alive
Posted on 2020-05-26, 10:27
... So I slaughtered this monster and will put in a P4-HT instead - this specs will follow soon. ... Sorceress weeps for her kin... :( On a serious note, Antec Three Hundred case would alleviate some of those heat-related issues due to much better airflow (with two front fans and one rear, one side …
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-26, 10:15
Would luck have it, or is it fate making fun out of my sorry flipside, but those caps have actually arrived. And they even seem to look the part. That said, I'm not touching those with a ten foot pole after what you posted, since they were eBayed. I've ordered some more, this time from a local and …
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-25, 15:37
Well, I've ordered the fuses. I know I'm not to entirely trust what's printed, but the existing fuses do match the silkscreen. Furthermore, what struck me as "curious" is that the EU version (I've only found pics of NS) also has slow blow fuses (as in "T"), but, for some reason, those are of lower …
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-25, 15:05
After more digging, couldn't find a service manual. Did find an EU NS5R, and that gave me a hint. It's not 1200, rather T200mA. And the top fuse is indeed T1.6A.
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-25, 14:20
Curiously, it seems to have higher current rating there... which is the opposite of what common sense would suggest, on the 250/250 one. The 125/250 one seems to have the same current rating, which, again, is... interesting.
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-25, 14:13
Ah, got it. I can see through the paint. The top one says 250v T1.6A, bottom one 250v 1200mA (whatever T in T1.6 means?)
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-25, 14:02
Strange, once is "marked" for 110/120, while the other is marked for 220...
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-25, 13:10
Thanks for the tip, it is indeed most welcome. You wouldn't know what type (as in nomenclature) of fuses are these?
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-25, 07:03
Well, trust is a relative term. I know what I ordered, but I can't tell if what I'll receive is going to be exactly that (are there fake capacitor makers?)...
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-24, 14:57
Will certainly do that. However, I've ordered replacement caps at the same time I've bought the board, and I'd wager they are still on some boat moving slowly towards Europe at the moment...
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-24, 12:27
Time for a pretty large update, and then some. I've received the shipment mentioned above, and there are some mixed feelings. Nah, kidding, I'm happy as a pig in mud! But not all is well, so let's start with a spoon of tar in the proverbial barrel of honey. First, I've ordered plenty of stuff, …
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-21, 22:11
Another update. Managed to get Emperor to install Vista 64, and it even activated! Now with most updates and service pack 2, it is very near to what I had back in the day. Even the CPU for now is the 630, just like I had back then (this one is borrowed from another machine while 670 is being shipped …
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-19, 08:49
Installing actual, real and fully licensed box version of Windows Vista Ultimate on Emperor. Updates still work! Activation doesn't, at least not automatic. Phone activation, however, saved the day. I'll try to get boxed versions of OSes for all my builds, speaking of which, does anyone know how and …
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-15, 21:39
My Tualatin and the corresponding mobo happily arrived today. No pictures this time, as I'm working on P4 for now, plus, I don't have a s370 cooler yet, so no need to take it all out. In the mean time, I'm installing Vista on that P4. And, to tell the truth, that stock Intel cooler in the pic above …
Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.
Posted on 2020-05-14, 20:28
I'm sorry if I did offend you by using the word "wreck". But what I meant with it was any destructive (as in "irreversible", no matter how well made) modification on something so old and rare is a step not taken lightly.
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-14, 12:44
I've received the first of the next batch of motherboards, a nice purple ECS P4 board that needed the most repairs. It had pins in the S775 bent quite violently by whoever was its former owner. Well, that was the board I wasn't sure I would be able to fix. Yet, after a bit of fiddling and spoiling …
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-12, 10:18
Thank YOU for the feedback, and glad it was useful for someone else besides me, myself and my persona. At times it feels like that, with more than half posts here being, well, mine. :) Speaking of which, waiting for parts is getting on my nerves. Worse yet, I am contemplating another (ANOTHER!!! …
Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages
Posted on 2020-05-06, 20:26
Visited an actual (physical, not online) LED store and got some blue and yellow LED strips today. Came home, tested them, and yellow is actually amber. Ugh, why do these things look different with and without external light? Got so fed up with it that decided to order non-programmable, 4-wire RGB …
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