Weird card indeed! You can probably unlock the pipelines to get it running at 6800GT and even 6800 Ultra speeds with a little bit of overclocking.

hard1k wrote:

^^ This is a very unique and useful card indeed. If you make a notch on the AGP connector, you will be able to use it in 3,3V AGP slots, that has been already confirmed. However I won't take any responsibility for that obviously 😀
Such a mod makes it the most powerful 3,3V card, moreover, it's the most powerful card that still has Win9X support (though unofficial IIRC). The only card that still can be a little bit more desirable is ASUS V9999GT/256 😀 but you may try to enable the 4 disabled pipelines, however it doesn't work that often (according to some reports on different forums).
Congratulations!:)

F2bnp wrote:

Weird card indeed! You can probably unlock the pipelines to get it running at 6800GT and even 6800 Ultra speeds with a little bit of overclocking.

Thanks,well this is mine second working 6800 agp card,gonna try to unlock it just coz of curious,yes i already read some forums about this baby while it was on its way 🤣

Working on some Roland items in the EU. Plus a SCSI project in the US.

Got my hands on a couple of boxed gameport controllers, for free:

I had a black QuickShot joystick that looked like that white one. The buttons wore out so I took the stick off and wired buttons to the base and used the nub of the stick to play X-Wing 😀

I also had a QuickShot with the same form before. The X and Y axis fine tuner were very poor quality. I had to modify it.

HunterZ wrote:

I had a black QuickShot joystick that looked like that white one. The buttons wore out so I took the stick off and wired buttons to the base and used the nub of the stick to play X-Wing 😀

And today here's the loot:

A couple of P4 boxes were given to me, stripped them all and got some lovely parts!

One had an Intel D865PERL board in it, a really nice motherboard, black PCB and very reliable.

The other machines had various Intel S775 boards with chipsets such as 915 and newer. Everything is working and looking mint.

I have been a bit slow when it comes to posting new stuff here lately.

A new PC Chips M209 286 20 MHz motherboard with 4x SIP memory modules of unknown size. Winning bid 20 euro.
(The white fluffy stuff at the batterys negative lead is tissue paper from when I removed the little corrosion that had started to show)

Here is another 11 motherboards with CPUs and memory from the same seller, all these motherboards were sold as untested. The price ended up ~10 euro per board including shipping and there were some cards included (not pictured), among them an ISA 512KB VGA card, an ISA I/O controller card, a Cirrus Logic PCI video card and some other crap.

I think I will have a fun time trying to get the PC Chips "TXpro" and "TXpro-II" running, the performance should rival the awesome speed of a PC Chips BXCel Slot-1 board 😜. There is very little corrosion on three out of four 286 and 386 motherboards and the corroded one looks salvageable, the batteries will be removed and the motherboards cleaned when I have tested and benched them.

Great finds, I spy a IDT winchip C6 on one of those PC-chips boards too! What speed grade is that beast? I had a load of fun testing and playing with one of those recently, not fast but really easy to work with and no problems.
In fact i had a winchip based system for a good few years in late 90's/ early 2k's, was always solid, drove word 6 and a laser printer without missing a beat.
Have fun!
Best,
Chris

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Great finds, I spy a IDT winchip C6 on one of those PC-chips boards too! What speed grade is that beast? I had a load of fun tes […]
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Great finds, I spy a IDT winchip C6 on one of those PC-chips boards too! What speed grade is that beast? I had a load of fun testing and playing with one of those recently, not fast but really easy to work with and no problems.
In fact i had a winchip based system for a good few years in late 90's/ early 2k's, was always solid, drove word 6 and a laser printer without missing a beat.
Have fun!
Best,
Chris

The IDT Winchip is a 200 MHz chip if I remember correctly, I did not have one so Im glad it was included.

When it comes to the motherboards I really hope the Soyo 430TX board works and the 430FX board with a onboard PS/2 port and a socketed RTC.

Skyscraper wrote:

There is very little corrosion on three out of four 286 and 386 motherboards and the corroded one looks salvageable, the batteries will be removed and the motherboards cleaned when I have tested and benched them.

I really like that little 386DX/40 board. I had one just like it but it was a gonner unfortunately 🙁

brassicGamer wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

There is very little corrosion on three out of four 286 and 386 motherboards and the corroded one looks salvageable, the batteries will be removed and the motherboards cleaned when I have tested and benched them.

I really like that little 386DX/40 board. I had one just like it but it was a gonner unfortunately 🙁

Yea, it seems like a nice board, I have a 386SX board with the "tomato" form factor already but this is a 386DX board with cache so I really hope it works, the board has no corrosion at all from what I can see so I think the odds are good.

I have now started to test the fist motherboard, the Soyo SY-5BT(5) i430TX board. The board did not want to post, the post diagnostic card showed nothing except an indication that the board got 5V power and the PC-Speaker was eerily quiet. I replaced the CPU without any signs of improvement then I replaced the memory and the board posted at once! 😀

The board has one bulged cap (out of 4) in its VRM circuit but I cant be bothered with replecing it unless Im going to use this board in a system sometime in the future.

great news, I use 2 430TX boards on a daily basis, like the winchip they are easy and reliable.

Hi, just found this card:

It seems in good shape but... what kind of card it is? 😅
Thanks

My money is on data acquisition or industrial control

Industrial control has classically used RS485 and has transitioned to various real-time or industrial flavors of Ethernet. The big chip (V363EPC) is a PCI to PCI bridge for connecting with off-board processors, and Quicklogic (the chip manufacturer) specializes in sensors, so my guess is data acquisition.

Found a 80387 - 20Mhz

Found a Duron 1300, one of the highest for my KT133 board.

As an iconic American rapper Ice Cube once rapped.. "Today was a good day" 😎 😎

Holy smokes Artex, Nice! How much of your soul was sold to acquire a Voodoo5 6000?!?!