Finally, grabbed a desktop for $5.00. Disassembled to find a socket 8 mobo and a Pentium II 333 Overdrive proc. This POST's, as well.

You lucky git! 😁

Tetrium wrote:

Finally, grabbed a desktop for $5.00. Disassembled to find a socket 8 mobo and a Pentium II 333 Overdrive proc. This POST's, as well.

You lucky git! 😁

😁

Also forgot to mention that I grabbed a new-in-box Celeron 1.6 for $1. Really just wanted the heatsink/fan.

That's not a socket 8 overdrive, is it???? If it is, then you're one very lucky ^&*%!!!

edit: Re-read the post again.... You git!

And the board is standard ATX too 😁

awesome finds.

Would love to get that PA-2013 off ya and figure whats wrong with it!

Tetrium wrote:

And the board is standard ATX too 😁

The board has a green jumper wire soldered on the back between a pin on a 2 pin header labeled "wavetable" and a pin on the chip immediately to the right of the battery. Wierd.

So, are the PII OD procs rare? I hadn't ever seen one before this - but that's not saying much!

wow, i never see stuff like this at my local flea market...

humanoid wrote:

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Finally, grabbed a desktop for $5.00. Disassembled to find a socket 8 mobo and a Pentium II 333 Overdrive proc. This POST's, as well.

$5 for a s8 with PII Overdrive.... damn, you're lucky.

MaxWar wrote:

wow, i never see stuff like this at my local flea market...

I got a 486 board on a flea market this year for 50 cents 😁

RogueTrip2012 wrote:

awesome finds.

Would love to get that PA-2013 off ya and figure whats wrong with it!

Heh... Funny thing - I decided to give the board a second chance with a different power supply and it POSTs. Now I'm wondering about those other two socket 7's...

This morning i drove to a sunday morning flea market. There was not much left when i arrived a 10:00 am, apparently at this place all the good stuff is gone by 7 am ...

However at one of the table i got a dusty but complete pc: amd duron 700 with a sb live!, nic and geforce 2 mx, 2x128mb pc133 20 gb hd, ( it boots right to win98, even has Diablo 2 on it) as well as a bunch of cables, keyboad mouse, a spare sound card (opti sb16 clone) and a binder full of cds, games and drivers mostly.
All this for 15$ , not too bad !

The cap to the top right of the HSF looks bulged though. Might want to give it a closer look

The cap to the top right of the HSF looks bulged though. Might want to give it a closer look.

And another one at the top left corner of the CPU socket. They're probably all on their way out, though... it's pretty much a given on old Socket A boards, there just weren't very many made with good caps.

yes, i noticed those when i bought it, there are two of em swollen caps, i test runned the pc, it crashed after 1 hour so . I'm gonna change em before i use this pc for anything serious.

edit : you guys have keen eyes 😉

MaxWar wrote:

yes, i noticed those when i bought it, there are two of em swollen caps, i test runned the pc, it crashed after 1 hour so . I'm gonna change em before i use this pc for anything serious.

edit : you guys have keen eyes 😉

Lol 😜

I find buying old systems is a good way to get cheap parts 😉

Tetrium wrote:

MaxWar wrote:

yes, i noticed those when i bought it, there are two of em swollen caps, i test runned the pc, it crashed after 1 hour so . I'm gonna change em before i use this pc for anything serious.

edit : you guys have keen eyes 😉

Lol 😜

I find buying old systems is a good way to get cheap parts 😉

Haha, yes, i already switched that Geforce2 mx in another machine, i found its absence of fan and its presence of tv-out to be desirable traits.

Picked up a load of stuff off craigslist this morning. Quite a bit of stuff I don't need. Probably a dozen old BNC-type NIC's, some old mice and some other junk. On the plus side, there were about 8 ISA video cards of varying quality, 6 ISA disk controller cards and 5 motherboards (pictured below):

From left to right - (2) 495SX socket 3 boards, a socket 7 board of completely unknown origin, FIC VA-503 socket 7, and a Tyan S1590S socket 7. None have been tested yet but I have bought stuff from this guy in the past with good results.

Both batteries are shot on the socket 3's so they'll have to be replaced. Both boards have DX2-50's.

Here's the "mystery board" Any clues?

The FIC has a 200MMX on it.

The Tyan also has a 20MMX.

They were all in boxes except the FIC so they all appear to be in decent condition. We'll see how it goes...

Regarding the socket 3 boards; when there's only one VLB slot, what's the best card to populate it with - a disk controller or a video card?

But what about the isa video cards? Any old 8 bit cirrus logic by any chance?

Regarding the socket 3 boards; when there's only one VLB slot, what's the best card to populate it with - a disk controller or a video card?

If this is going to be a DOS games box, VLB video card for sure. You won't notice much benefit from the VLB disk controller under DOS while local bus video is significantly faster than ISA video.