Finally did an assessment of my purchase from the other day (the one with the lot of CPUs). Unfortunately it's from a smoker's home, so I've spent the last few nights scrubbing off all the tobacco juice 🙁

- A box of CPUs (mostly 486/Pentiums)
- Some ram, mostly PC100/133, some DDR, a few 72pin
- A box of video cards, no voodoos, but some neat ones still - I've never had a trident AGP card before (3DImage9750)
- A bunch of 3.5 floppies, mostly drivers, some neat games
- two Zoltrix ISA FM tuner cards (neat, but pretty useless to me)
- 3 systems: Some generic HP P4 in one of those short ugly early 2000s cases (still in my shed), A PIII-500 on a Asus P2B-D motherboard, A PII-350 on an unknown board
- Two milk crates full of mice, joysticks, fans, heatsinks, webcams, lots of CD games, misc hardware
- 3 monitors (2 Dell 19" LCD, 1 Acer 19" wide LCD)...

The PII-350 came with an AWE64 card, which I've been looking for.

probnot wrote:

Finally did an assessment of my purchase from the other day (the one with the lot of CPUs). Unfortunately it's from a smoker's h […]
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Finally did an assessment of my purchase from the other day (the one with the lot of CPUs). Unfortunately it's from a smoker's home, so I've spent the last few nights scrubbing off all the tobacco juice 🙁

- A box of CPUs (mostly 486/Pentiums)
- Some ram, mostly PC100/133, some DDR, a few 72pin
- A box of video cards, no voodoos, but some neat ones still - I've never had a trident AGP card before (3DImage9750)
- A bunch of 3.5 floppies, mostly drivers, some neat games
- two Zoltrix ISA FM tuner cards (neat, but pretty useless to me)
- 3 systems: Some generic HP P4 in one of those short ugly early 2000s cases (still in my shed), A PIII-500 on a Asus P2B-D motherboard, A PII-350 on an unknown board
- Two milk crates full of mice, joysticks, fans, heatsinks, webcams, lots of CD games, misc hardware
- 3 monitors (2 Dell 19" LCD, 1 Acer 19" wide LCD)...

The PII-350 came with an AWE64 card, which I've been looking for.

Oh nice, also dat golden Pentiums

I got an old PC for cheap again. This time an old Pentium 4 system with an ECS P4S5A/DX+, 2.4 ghz FSB 400 Pentium 4, Geforce 4 MX4000, RTL8139 network card and a Seagate 30 GB HDD

i tested and all parts works, the board is interesting, is one of the few P4 boards with universal AGP and support for the 3.06 GHz P4 HT acording to CPU-Upgrade.com, it also supports PC100/133 and DDR200/266/333 RAM, chipset is a SiS 645DX

And.... nice hardware keeps rolling in!

Just purchased a XFX 7900GS 512mb agp card and also a complete system just for the Asus P5A that's in there. One of my favorite boards and i can not have enough spares.

Along with some other stuff, picked up this HP Pavilion 453. Comes with an Athlon XP 2400+, nForce 220 motherboard and a geforce2 MX400.

Doesn't want to boot. I assume it's likely due to the tiny 200W Bestec power supply, which has no place running a system with an Athlon XP in it.

Doesn't matter too much, since I only wanted the case for its late 90's - early 2000's look.

Carlos S. M. wrote:

probnot wrote:

Finally did an assessment of my purchase from the other day (the one with the lot of CPUs). Unfortunately it's from a smoker's h […]
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Finally did an assessment of my purchase from the other day (the one with the lot of CPUs). Unfortunately it's from a smoker's home, so I've spent the last few nights scrubbing off all the tobacco juice 🙁

- A box of CPUs (mostly 486/Pentiums)
- Some ram, mostly PC100/133, some DDR, a few 72pin
- A box of video cards, no voodoos, but some neat ones still - I've never had a trident AGP card before (3DImage9750)
- A bunch of 3.5 floppies, mostly drivers, some neat games
- two Zoltrix ISA FM tuner cards (neat, but pretty useless to me)
- 3 systems: Some generic HP P4 in one of those short ugly early 2000s cases (still in my shed), A PIII-500 on a Asus P2B-D motherboard, A PII-350 on an unknown board
- Two milk crates full of mice, joysticks, fans, heatsinks, webcams, lots of CD games, misc hardware
- 3 monitors (2 Dell 19" LCD, 1 Acer 19" wide LCD)...

The PII-350 came with an AWE64 card, which I've been looking for.

Oh nice, also dat golden Pentiums

Be sure to see if one has the FDIV bug!

gdjacobs wrote:

Carlos S. M. wrote:

probnot wrote:

Finally did an assessment of my purchase from the other day (the one with the lot of CPUs). Unfortunately it's from a smoker's h […]
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Finally did an assessment of my purchase from the other day (the one with the lot of CPUs). Unfortunately it's from a smoker's home, so I've spent the last few nights scrubbing off all the tobacco juice 🙁

- A box of CPUs (mostly 486/Pentiums)
- Some ram, mostly PC100/133, some DDR, a few 72pin
- A box of video cards, no voodoos, but some neat ones still - I've never had a trident AGP card before (3DImage9750)
- A bunch of 3.5 floppies, mostly drivers, some neat games
- two Zoltrix ISA FM tuner cards (neat, but pretty useless to me)
- 3 systems: Some generic HP P4 in one of those short ugly early 2000s cases (still in my shed), A PIII-500 on a Asus P2B-D motherboard, A PII-350 on an unknown board
- Two milk crates full of mice, joysticks, fans, heatsinks, webcams, lots of CD games, misc hardware
- 3 monitors (2 Dell 19" LCD, 1 Acer 19" wide LCD)...

The PII-350 came with an AWE64 card, which I've been looking for.

Oh nice, also dat golden Pentiums

Be sure to see if one has the FDIV bug!

Unfortunately I have no motherboards to test any of these on at the moment...

probnot wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

Be sure to see if one has the FDIV bug!

Unfortunately I have no motherboards to test any of these on at the moment...

Check thier S-Spec code

is a 4-5 digit code which starts with S (Q on enginnering/qualification samples)

Carlos S. M. wrote:

probnot wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

Be sure to see if one has the FDIV bug!

Unfortunately I have no motherboards to test any of these on at the moment...

Check thier S-Spec code

is a 4-5 digit code which starts with S (Q on enginnering/qualification samples)

According to wikipedia, the 66MHz Socket 4 Pentium does have the FDIV bug (it's s-spec is SX837)

I was given an old Thinkpad R61 by my brother... Core2Duo 1.7ghz, 4gb Ram, 110gb HDD, Bluetooth and so on.
It is booting fine into Windows without any issues, and according to the device info, everything is ok.
As such.... The screen is cracked, resulting in a black spot, covering some 15/20% of the screen.
So I ordered a refurbished "new" LCD panel for this machine. Not that expensive. 28 US Dollars including shipping.
The charger was in a bad state too, cracked cord at the plug, so I stripped it down and did some solder work.
Finished it all up with some nice yellow and some red heatshrink tube. Shall be fun installing that 14.1 inch panel.

I had a socket 5 P90 that was also affected back in the day.

So, I "bought" this computer by helping out a family member with his (current) computer.

It's a Compaq Armada 4150T, complete with dockingstation, external battery (!), and charger. Everything seems to working fine, except the battery is almost dead, as expected.

It's running some kind Pentium CPU, and has 32MB RAM. Too bad I don't really have any space for it, or real interest in laptops...

That one looks cool, it has a Pentium 150MHz from what I found, SB16 compatible soundchip, it would make for a good DOS or Win98 machine.
I don't recognize the keyboard layout...

c0keb0ttle wrote:

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Thank for the free windows 2000 key!

CRAZY IVAN

Jade Falcon wrote:

c0keb0ttle wrote:

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Thank for the free windows 2000 key!

Enjoy this magnificent gift. 😜

keenmaster486 wrote:

CRAZY IVAN

I think the owner had read a bit too much Tom Clancy...

c0keb0ttle wrote:

So, I "bought" this computer by helping out a family member with his (current) computer.

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It's a Compaq Armada 4150T, complete with dockingstation, external battery (!), and charger. Everything seems to working fine, except the battery is almost dead, as expected.

Nice! I am searching for one for about 6 years because I've got mine in rough shape (after 9th owner!), it is sort of working, but everything is mangled. Lots of cracks in plastics, makeshift power supply scavenged from old iron encased in about half a pound of silicon. It has got no battery at all. If it has, I would rebuild it, but even the casing I am missing. Even the floppy drive is dead, the head is ripped off.

I received today the 2 ISA NICs I got a while ago but sadly it seems that their ports are busted. They pass all tests and packet driver loads just fine but sadly no connection is ever made ...

you win some, you lose some 🤣 🤣 🤣

Jade Falcon wrote:

c0keb0ttle wrote:

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Thank for the free windows 2000 key!

That is a Windows ID, not the actual activation key.