Thermalwrong wrote:

Today, I received a completely broken motherboard! The one motherboard I've been seeking out for a few months because I have a special adapter, for this very specific motherboard. That the seller chose to package in just bubblewrap, going across the oceans, hundreds of miles, just arrive looking like this. Doesn't work at all...

That doesn't look too bad, there shouldn't be anything there to cause the mobo not to work unless the inside layers copper got exposed and is shorting to something. If you can't return it then I'd suggest to file this corner down a bit with sandpaper. Then you can apply some clear coating to prevent further shorts and oxidation from creeping in.

Thermalwrong wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Maxximum Rage.. (No I haven't tried it yet, don't have a build with an AGP slot around and won't have one for a few weeks..)

Intel486dx33 wrote:

I built my Terratec Audio studio PC awhile back. That EWS-88MT is missing the rear connector on the bay drive. But I made a diag […]
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wiretap wrote:

Picked up a Terratec DMX 6Fire w/ front panel today for $28.
The same seller also has a Terratec EWS 88MT for $29 if any of you are looking. Ebay seller is: altairman007
He's got a pretty low number of sold/purchased items, but so far there's been good communication, and he tells me that he's selling off some of his studio equipment.

I built my Terratec Audio studio PC awhile back. That EWS-88MT is missing the rear connector on the bay drive.
But I made a diagram on the pin-outs if anyone is interested.
Terratec EWS-88MT adapter mod advice ?
These Terratec sound cards and drives and terratec apps work good in Windows-XP too but not officially supported.
Just use backward compatibility in WinXP for apps.

That case setup looks amazing 😀 I really like the choice of DVD drive as well, I was tempted to pick one of those up when I first saw it, very fitting for that case design. Do each of those cards work together without fighting for resources?

Yes, all the audio cards work well.
Ultimate Audio / Gaming build - Terratec/SB Audigy2zs.

I am going to design a PCB board as the original for the Terratec EWS88 head unit adapter for replacement since they are no longer available for purchase.
Anyone will be able to order a PCB board and connectors to make there own EWS88 adapter.
The custom made PCB boards are only like $1 each. Or 10 for $10

Deunan wrote:

Thermalwrong wrote:

Today, I received a completely broken motherboard! The one motherboard I've been seeking out for a few months because I have a special adapter, for this very specific motherboard. That the seller chose to package in just bubblewrap, going across the oceans, hundreds of miles, just arrive looking like this. Doesn't work at all...

That doesn't look too bad, there shouldn't be anything there to cause the mobo not to work unless the inside layers copper got exposed and is shorting to something. If you can't return it then I'd suggest to file this corner down a bit with sandpaper. Then you can apply some clear coating to prevent further shorts and oxidation from creeping in.

Thanks for the second opinion 😀 I've done similar when dismantling 4 layer PCBs to make them into 12v > 5v power supplies and that worked, I think this is more layers but maybe it will work if I sand it back so it's not shorting? I'd rather see what the seller / ebay require first

Intel486dx33 wrote:

Yes, all the audio cards work well. Ultimate Audio / Gaming build - Terratec/SB Audigy2zs. […]
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Yes, all the audio cards work well.
Ultimate Audio / Gaming build - Terratec/SB Audigy2zs.

I am going to design a PCB board as the original for the Terratec EWS88 head unit adapter for replacement since they are no longer available for purchase.
Anyone will be able to order a PCB board and connectors to make there own EWS88 adapter.
The custom made PCB boards are only like $1 each. Or 10 for $10

Brilliant 😀 It's nice to see adapters put together that connect things that have lost the important parts and been made un-usable because of that.

Over the weekend:

Friday: DVDO Edge with the manuals, remote, DVD, and power cord
Saturday: Cisco 2600 Series router (haven't configured one in years since my college days) and some A/V cables (composite and component).

Got this board wth 200MMX vpu for $15. ATX and PS/2 connectors sold it for me. I will put it in a modern ATX case and use it as my Hardware testing pc..

antec p180, not perfect - but this is the second, what i have bought. i created one from the two cases.

more about the build:
Socket 775 @ 2006.11 - Core 2 Extreme QX6700, Geforce 8800 GTX, Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty

arncht wrote:

antec p180, not perfect - but this is the second, what i have bought. i created one from the two cases.

Not a bad case. I currently use the same case for my Linux server/HTPC (i7 2600K)

Though the hinge for the front door thingy broke somewhat, so I have to leave it open.

Just got these for usd8 locally.. came with standard 200W AT PSU and a broken floppy disk drive also

Jetway J-656VXD mainboard with Pentium 133, 2x8MB EDO, a CQM based CT2940, S3 Trio 64V+ 1MB and a standard com/lpt isa card

http://imgur.com/gallery/lZi8lL8

Diamond Multimedia "Monster Fusion AGP 16MB SGRam" 3DFX Voodoo Banshee:

C326PS ver 2.0 PCI video card (SiS 6326 based) w/o bracket:

Kcil wrote:

Just got these for usd8 locally.. came with standard 200W AT PSU and a broken floppy disk drive also

Jetway J-656VXD mainboard with Pentium 133, 2x8MB EDO, a CQM based CT2940, S3 Trio 64V+ 1MB and a standard com/lpt isa card

http://imgur.com/gallery/lZi8lL8

Shit that's amazing value.

Gered wrote:

Not a bad case. I currently use the same case for my Linux server/HTPC (i7 2600K) http://i.imgur.com/L0xGSnlt.jpg Though the hin […]
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arncht wrote:

antec p180, not perfect - but this is the second, what i have bought. i created one from the two cases.

Not a bad case. I currently use the same case for my Linux server/HTPC (i7 2600K)

Though the hinge for the front door thingy broke somewhat, so I have to leave it open.

i wanted it to this config, because it was really revolutionary from many aspect. the disadvantage - full with plastic parts, and they are very vulnerable. Both cases were advertised as "very good" condition, but both has damaged parts, anyway they were coming with the original box, every screws, small parts, etc.

earlier i wrote to the antec europe, but they also don't have a full case - they sold the plastic parts as spare part. so a full case in good condition is veryvery rare.

appiah4 wrote:

Got this board wth 200MMX vpu for $15. ATX and PS/2 connectors sold it for me. I will put it in a modern ATX case and use it as my Hardware testing pc..

Doing hardware testing on a thin-as-paper PC Chips board... not sure I'd recommend that...

That said, what you have there is clock-for-clock the fastest So7 board I've ever encoutered (at least in terms of RAM performance), so if it runs stable, it will at least run very, very fast 😀

dionb wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Got this board wth 200MMX vpu for $15. ATX and PS/2 connectors sold it for me. I will put it in a modern ATX case and use it as my Hardware testing pc..

Doing hardware testing on a thin-as-paper PC Chips board... not sure I'd recommend that...

That said, what you have there is clock-for-clock the fastest So7 board I've ever encoutered (at least in terms of RAM performance), so if it runs stable, it will at least run very, very fast 😀

Hmm, good point, but I will keep it in a case and just test PCI/ISA video/sound cards, which should not break the board.. hopefully?

Yeah it apparently has a 33MHz PCI lock and support for 82Mhz, which is great. Initially I will run it with a Cyrix mII 233 75Mhz FSB CPU but I hope to find a faster mII, possibly an 82MHz one. I will drop in a Voodoo card or a Riva TNT PCI so between that and the high FSB, FPU should not worry me too much.

I don't really have money to spend on frivolities recently, due to the fact that we've moved to another house. On the flip side though, I have more place to store my old machines. Nevertheless, I have seen a DOS era machine that I just had to get my hands on: NEC Versa 4050C laptop in perfect condition.

640x480 TFT screen, Sound Blaster, speakers, all in original bag and with original power brick. Seller wanted quite some sum for it, but I knew him from some other transaction and bargained quite a bit. In fact I just told him the truth: that I'd love to buy this machine, but am short on cash. He's also a fan of retro, he understood.

Didn't have much time to play with it, but turned it on and it's lovely. Battery is dead, HDD is operational, screen is nice, speakers are fairly loud, lot of connectivity options (including IR!). German keyboard (not a fan!), but oh well. Not everything can be perfect. Other than that, seems like an ideal DOS laptop (which is a bit of my fetish - and recent discussions in this thread has reignited the spark).

stalk3r wrote:

Bought this Compaq Portable 386 from 1987. https://i.imgur.com/TaA8yDh.jpg […]
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Bought this Compaq Portable 386 from 1987.

That is my other fetish

Got the Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 card and some 3" diskettes for two old nokia mobile phones through a trade.
Now i have the famous 3d DEcelerator!

GigAHerZ wrote:

Got the Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 card and some 3" diskettes for two old nokia mobile phones through a trade.
Now i have the famous 3d DEcelerator!

I have the Pro (Virge/DX) version of that. I have yet to see it accelerate anything. It is a good PCI card though, not very easy to find S3 cards with decent VGA to be honest; most of them have blurry or washed out signal..

This Dell AT101W keyboard 😀 Have yet to check the switches, but feels and sounds very nice 😀

those are excellent keyboards!

Got a second one of these for my Deskpro EN-SFF which currently had a Radeon 7000 PCI. I should be able to run everything smoothly at 1024x768x32 now.

No idea why whomever wrote Wang on the heatsink though..