debs3759 wrote:

FPUs are automatically enabled. You may have a dead chip (is that on an adapter that plugs between the socket and CPU?). Otherwise, maybe your motherboard BIOS doesn't recognise it, although I think that unlikely.

Yes it is on a adapter which plugs betwenn the CPU and socket. Looks like a sandwich out of pcbs and ics with my pcb mounted 486sx cpu 😁

Well maybe its dead. People here also talk about having on of those adapters and they also do not get detected so I thought maybe there is some reason behind it

Eleanor1967 wrote:

Well maybe its dead. People here also talk about having on of those adapters and they also do not get detected so I thought maybe there is some reason behind it

yes, dead people are easier to detect, dead cpus are harder to detect ;p
you did check bios?

Got a Voodoo 3 2000 AGP with box, insert, and CD. Box condition is great.

Got this Gigabyte GA-5AX with unknown CPU in dusty condition. For some reason there was an Aopen AX53 manual along with it. Cleaned it up and found it was a K6/2 300, so nothing really special.

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After

My Aztech Sound Galaxy collection is growing.. at least the cards I am interested in for now.

Just picked up a Sound Galaxy BX II. Pretty rare to see them for sale. I was looking at pictures and from what I can find, there were at least 3 revisions of the card. The earlier one using the standard OPL2 chip and the newer ones using the low power OPL2 chip.

It is basically a Sound Blaster 2.0 card.

Seller's pic:

cyclone3d wrote:

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My Aztech Sound Galaxy collection is growing.. at least the cards I am interested in for now.

Just picked up a Sound Galaxy BX II. Pretty rare to see them for sale. I was looking at pictures and from what I can find, there were at least 3 revisions of the card. The earlier one using the standard OPL2 chip and the newer ones using the low power OPL2 chip.

It is basically a Sound Blaster 2.0 card.

Seller's pic:

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Nice. I really much like those older Aztech sound cards. I also have some branded as "CPS Hamburg" (Aztech Sound Galaxy NX II). While some of them are Sound Blaster clones and they are generally not considered "iconic" as early cards from SB line, their output quality seems actually better, much less noisy.

debs3759 wrote:

Eleanor1967 wrote:

I recently bought a Cyrix Cx487S-40QP. Installed it in the motherboard along with an 486SX but the motherboard still shows no co-processor installed. Anybody got an idea if you have to enable it somehow or how to get this thing to work ?

FPUs are automatically enabled. You may have a dead chip (is that on an adapter that plugs between the socket and CPU?). Otherwise, maybe your motherboard BIOS doesn't recognise it, although I think that unlikely.

As far as I know those only work with the Cyrix Cx486S fastmath cpu's. I have on of those combinations and it never worked with another 486.

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Almoststew1990 wrote:

Today I wasted £20! I saw an advert for a Tiny - branded PC P3 Slot 1 PC which always gets me interested (although without PSU or a side panel) and when I picked it up it and got it home it looked like this:\

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That should clean up fine, I've seen ones this dirty...

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Oh...nevermind...Yeaaah, that's a double whammy there.

Chsi Caps... Really bad caps!
This is my story:
Some weeks ago i bought an MSI K7 Pro@MS-6195, it was new, never opened!
I was excited because it was my first Slot A Mainboard for only 15€ shipped.
The box was in very good condition, wonderful bundle, never used... All was like expected from a new mainboard but the board had bulged caps!
My face was something like this 😮
So this Mainboard was stored for 17 years into the original box but its horrible caps go to crap's cemetery without a single bootup 😜
Never seen something like this 😁 fortunately i have good soldering skills so it wasn't a big problem 😀
In my experience old MSI and Gigabyte Mainboards but even some ABIT and Epox use bad caps like Choyo, Chsi, G-Luxon, Hemei, Su'Scon etc in my opinion is better to know before buying

cyclone3d wrote:

My Aztech Sound Galaxy collection is growing.. at least the cards I am interested in for now. […]
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My Aztech Sound Galaxy collection is growing.. at least the cards I am interested in for now.

Just picked up a Sound Galaxy BX II. Pretty rare to see them for sale. I was looking at pictures and from what I can find, there were at least 3 revisions of the card. The earlier one using the standard OPL2 chip and the newer ones using the low power OPL2 chip.

It is basically a Sound Blaster 2.0 card.

Seller's pic:

s-l1600.jpg

Nice sound card. I have a Sound Galaxy NX Pro that is SB Pro, Covox Sound Things, Disney Sound Source, and has a genuine OPL3 YMF262-M chip. The Line-In port needs to get re-soldered since it stops working when I wiggle the cable and it's loose. Other than that, the card does work surprisingly very well.

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Chsi Caps... Really bad caps! This is my story: Some weeks ago i bought an MSI K7 Pro@MS-6195, it was new, never opened! I was […]
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Almoststew1990 wrote:

Today I wasted £20! I saw an advert for a Tiny - branded PC P3 Slot 1 PC which always gets me interested (although without PSU or a side panel) and when I picked it up it and got it home it looked like this:\

*scrolls through pictures*

That should clean up fine, I've seen ones this dirty...

Almoststew1990 wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/i1j0JKwl.jpg […]
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Oh...nevermind...Yeaaah, that's a double whammy there.

Chsi Caps... Really bad caps!
This is my story:
Some weeks ago i bought an MSI K7 Pro@MS-6195, it was new, never opened!
I was excited because it was my first Slot A Mainboard for only 15€ shipped.
The box was in very good condition, wonderful bundle, never used... All was like expected from a new mainboard but the board had bulged caps!
My face was something like this 😮
So this Mainboard was stored for 17 years into the original box but its horrible caps go to crap's cemetery without a single bootup 😜
Never seen something like this 😁 fortunately i have good soldering skills so it wasn't a big problem 😀
In my experience old MSI and Gigabyte Mainboards but even some ABIT and Epox use bad caps like Choyo, Chsi, G-Luxon, Hemei, Su'Scon etc in my opinion is better to know before buying

Correct me if wromg but actually not being used at all is worse for the caps than some use?

Energized with only leakage current is best. However, Chhsi along with Fuhjyyu are true D-list crap. Real caps won't fail in the box.

A Comtex TurboXT off of Craigslist recently.

Besides being dusty, the system powered on just fine. Installed was MS-DOS 3.3, a Siemens 8088 CPU, no 8087 co-processor, standard amounts of RAM but there are open sockets that I could populate if I wanted to. Installed cards were a GW202 Baby I/O controller that only supports low density disks, a MDA adapter, and a hard disk controller. Other hardware was a Seagate ST-225 that seems to work just fine and a 360KB floppy drive that died out almost immediately. I've added TEAC 360KB and 720KB drives and a Microsoft InPort Bus Mouse controller if I ever want to use a mouse. I am probably going to swap the current I/O controller with something that can handle high density disks but I haven't decided that yet.

Unfortunately, the Hyundai monitor has some pretty bad burn in but I can live with it.

The keyboard has white Alps switches and still needs a more thorough cleaning since there were tabs of tape on the keys with Chinese characters on it. The adhesive was really broken down and some ink has transferred to the key caps.

I also had to re-pin the reset and turbo buttons since they would not make proper contact with the motherboard headers and would just wobble around. Next I will need to clean out the drive but there really isn't much on it beside WordPerfect 5, an old version of The Print Shop and a Chinese Word Processor. I don't see any personal data so at least the previous owner scrubbed that.

Bought 4 RAMBUS sticks and they arrived exactly as pictured below:

Just four bare sticks and two deflated airbags in a box. I will test them tonight.

dexvx wrote:

Got this Gigabyte GA-5AX with unknown CPU in dusty condition.

Nice! I havent seen this revision yet.

psychz wrote:

Looks like it was a console week over here 😮 After a second Dreamcast, I got my first PlayStation... Only 23 years late to the party 😢 For 9€, a SCPH-1002 (first PAL release/the "audiophile edition"), two basic controllers (SCPH-1080, no dualshocks 🙁 ), its AC cord, its original A/V cable and a boxed 3rd party PSX<->SCART cable. Fully working, fully silent. Guess it's time to pack away the PS2 and play those old games (*coughcough*Ridge Racer*coughcough*) on the console they were made for. Oh, it is already chipped too!

Had that model as well, back when they were new. Never liked ridge racer my self. I was more a rage racer kind of person. Now with that chip, you need to check out other games. If you do not know it, then try Dead Or Alive 1 that were released for Ps1. Wipeout is great too.

Grabbed a QDI Socket 7 board and a Pentium 100 CPU because it was a cheap bundle:

Also grabbed two SB AWE64 CT4520s (even though I needed only the one.. you can never have too many AWE64s..)

And finally, the seller threw this into the lot as a bonus:

Since I am the only one at work using retro PC's I end up with all the incoming old hardware. Today I was told by my employer that he had two boxes for me to take home after work, I was told there were 2 old CRT monitors and an old PC. This is what I ended up with. I really like my job some days.

Silicon Graphics Indigo 2

NEC MultiSync E1100 21" Monitor

New in the box IBM 3151 Serial Terminal still in shrink wrap from IBM

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Grabbed a QDI Socket 7 board and a Pentium 100 CPU because it was a cheap bundle:

Shame it's missing the original heatsink and fan, they are half the value.

Picked up 2 sound cards. The Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 is for my 286 upgrade. The Sound Blaster 16 is because it's good to have a backup.

@Groovy

OOOOOO an IBM 3152. NEATO

Got one of these Nakamichi 5 CD changer drives. I think it was around $30 shipped.

Demo of it loading and storing 5 CDs and ejecting them with cover off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iodxMJQVmnc