dionb wrote:

An HP T5500 thin client with a Transmeta TM5800 733MHz Crusoe CPU.

Neat. Interesting that it's apparently using a VIA southbridge (assuming that says VT8231 in the photo); I was assuming something fully Transmeta-custom. Should make it easier to get drivers for it.

SW-SSG wrote:

dionb wrote:

An HP T5500 thin client with a Transmeta TM5800 733MHz Crusoe CPU.

Neat. Interesting that it's apparently using a VIA southbridge (assuming that says VT8231 in the photo); I was assuming something fully Transmeta-custom. Should make it easier to get drivers for it.

Yep, that was a nice surprise. Turns out it also has an entirely standard PC-style BIOS, can boot from USB and that the 32MB 'SSD' is in fact sitting on a bog-standard 44p mini-IDE connector. Oh, and the audio is a Via codec, so possibly even SB compatibility mode. Almost tempted to install DOS just to see what it does.

dionb wrote:

SW-SSG wrote:

dionb wrote:

An HP T5500 thin client with a Transmeta TM5800 733MHz Crusoe CPU.

Neat. Interesting that it's apparently using a VIA southbridge (assuming that says VT8231 in the photo); I was assuming something fully Transmeta-custom. Should make it easier to get drivers for it.

Yep, that was a nice surprise. Turns out it also has an entirely standard PC-style BIOS, can boot from USB and that the 32MB 'SSD' is in fact sitting on a bog-standard 44p mini-IDE connector. Oh, and the audio is a Via codec, so possibly even SB compatibility mode. Almost tempted to install DOS just to see what it does.

I'm not in the least surprised. I only know their CPUs, and they are fully IA32 compatible.

debs3759 wrote:

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I'm not in the least surprised. I only know their CPUs, and they are fully IA32 compatible.

The CPUs certainly are, but thin clients - even with more mainstream CPUs - can be pretty nasty, proprietary or just plain limited to PXE boot and not much else. Having one that is basically a fully functional PC with nearly all the relevant connectors and firmware options is a nice relief. I remember a MediaGX-based client I once had that had no USB, no serial, no parallel, a single IDE connector that only accepted a single drive, and for some reason a single 8b ISA slot as the only expansion option.

Somebody posted an Aztech Sound Galaxy BXII on eBay for really cheap... had to pick it up. Already have one, but hey, why not.

cyclone3d wrote:

Somebody posted an Aztech Sound Galaxy BXII on eBay for really cheap... had to pick it up. Already have one, but hey, why not.

BXII.jpg

C31 and EC11 look like spots that have been populated before, compared to not being populated ever. You might wanna look into that..

jaZz_KCS wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

Somebody posted an Aztech Sound Galaxy BXII on eBay for really cheap... had to pick it up. Already have one, but hey, why not.

BXII.jpg

C31 and EC11 look like spots that have been populated before, compared to not being populated ever. You might wanna look into that..

EC19 too.

I'll have to compare to my current card. Didn't even notice that as these hardly ever come up for sale.

Yep, I'll have to re-add those. I probably have what I need in my parts bin. Maybe I'll test it first to see if it works without those 3 caps.

Edit: nevermind.. the seller canceled my order due to "out of stock or damaged"... grrrr

cyclone3d wrote:

Edit: nevermind.. the seller canceled my order due to "out of stock or damaged"... grrrr

Crap, even with the 3 caps having to be replaced it would surely still have been a good deal.

I got a "new" 386 motherboard today.

It's not part of the huge lot of hardware I'm in the process of moving from southernmost Sweden up to where I live but an untested board I bought earlier that have travelled here by snail.

The 386WB4A3 B1... Opti chipset something something 386 motherboard.

The issue was that the motherboard diddn't work. The AT PSU got overloaded instantly and refused to turn on. The motherboard was listed as "used" eventhough the seller hardly knew what it was and hadn't tested it so I guess I could have made a big fuss about the board not working. It's not really my style to go after non professional sellers that don't really know what they are selling though.

After poking around with my multimeter a couple of minuts I found a dead short at capacitor C11.

This one is beeing naughty.

Here there should be an image of a nicely done removal and replacement but my solder sucker decided that it was a good time to be afflicted by congestion. It failed to suck and instead puked solder all over the board... After cleaning up the excess solder with a desoldering braid and servicing the sucker the later worked a bit too good... Well in the end the cap got capped and recapped with another cap.

Much better!

Do we know who bought this motherboard?

The seller was a Spanish dude who sells "untested" stuff on Ebay that rarly work out of the box but often can be saved with a bit of TLC. I was the other (non winning) bidder. I'm not going to spend much more money on hardware this year after buying the big lot otherwise I would probably have been willing to bid a bit more, the price ended up at 20£. I would like to know if the buyer is a Vogons member as a dump of the MR BIOS on this board would be useful.

The 386 motherboard I did not win.

Adding more CPUs to my collection is always a good thing, isn't it? 🤣

Core 2 Extreme QX6700 - the first quad-core (launched 11/2006), also the first Intel Extreme CPU in my collection.

Also some AMD K8, mostly types I didn't have before.

5x Sempron 3000+ socket 939... all five manufactured in 51st week 2005. 😀
2x Sempron 2800+ socket AM2
Sempron 3200+ socket AM2
Sempron 3800+ socket AM2
Sempron LE-1200 socket AM2

Athlon 64 2800+ socket 754 (Newcastle)
Athlon 64 3000+ socket 939 (Winchester)
Athlon 64 3000+ socket 939 (Venice E3)
Athlon 64 3000+ socket 939 (Venice E6)
Athlon 64 3000+ socket AM2 (Orleans)
Athlon 64 3200+ socket AM2 (Orleans)
2x Athlon 64 3500+ socket AM2 (Orleans)
Athlon 64 LE-1640 socket AM2

Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro

The seller sold it with the following issue: "Sound card works fine much of the time but after a random amount of time I was having issues with it all the sudden outputting a constant noise. Restarting the computer would fix it for a time, I believe it was driver issues that I could never quite get straightened out but it could be hardware related. Sold AS-IS."

Yeah, that's a driver issue. My X-Fi Extreme Audio PCI did that constantly when it was on my 680i with the driver I was using at the time.

I also found an Technics Audio SA-G78 6.1 Channel 100W Per Channel Stereo Receiver from 1996 in the local thrift stores scrap pile. My money is on them having lacked the technical knowledge to correctly test it. This thrift store does not sell anything they can't test. If it works it will be replacing the shitty Phillips Magnavox AIO 15w per channel amp in my main audio setup and will be paired with the X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro, my Yamaha YST-SW005 60W Forward firing sub, and my Yamaha NS-6490 Speakers. There were several computer monitors there as well but I have no space or need for them as they weren't Trinitrons which are the only thing I would bother grabbing at this point.

Bought a nice collection of RAM modules and CPUs. Pictures will follow. 😀

The Technics Receiver is dead. Barely outputs any power, the input selector knob is super wonky along with ever other digital knob on it. Enabling any DSP function corrupts the audio completely. It likely has multiple issues, this is very sad.

havli wrote:

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Adding more CPUs to my collection is always a good thing, isn't it? 🤣

Core 2 Extreme QX6700 - the first quad-core (launched 11/2006), also the first Intel Extreme CPU in my collection.

Also some AMD K8, mostly types I didn't have before.

5x Sempron 3000+ socket 939... all five manufactured in 51st week 2005. 😀
2x Sempron 2800+ socket AM2
Sempron 3200+ socket AM2
Sempron 3800+ socket AM2
Sempron LE-1200 socket AM2

Athlon 64 2800+ socket 754 (Newcastle)
Athlon 64 3000+ socket 939 (Winchester)
Athlon 64 3000+ socket 939 (Venice E3)
Athlon 64 3000+ socket 939 (Venice E6)
Athlon 64 3000+ socket AM2 (Orleans)
Athlon 64 3200+ socket AM2 (Orleans)
2x Athlon 64 3500+ socket AM2 (Orleans)
Athlon 64 LE-1640 socket AM2

Are you planning on actually using them? Or as spares? Or is it more for collection?

I really liked my Venices, though I had the 2.2GHz ones for both s754 and s939

Is there anything particular with those Semprons btw? Perhaps as an overclocking project? 😜

Bought two of these. They will become really handy down the road....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-internal-drive … zQAAOSwqSVZumR6

It's much cheaper to just modify a PC floppy. For most drives, tutorials are available and for most it's just cutting some traces and add two or three wires. Did that many times.

derSammler wrote:

It's much cheaper to just modify a PC floppy. For most drives, guides are available and for most it's just cutting some traces and add two or three wires. Did that many times.

Yup... I do not have a solder iron to solder smd components. Mine is one of those with a thick 45 degree angeled tips.
Secondly... I still wish to retain pc compatibility with those drives. This is easier for me personally.
If you are one of those that can do the mod, then fine, good for you. I am not one of those that can do such a mod.
And I probably just go and screw up my drives. They can be found fairly cheap, yet I do not wish to wait for floppy drives.

Tetrium wrote:

Are you planning on actually using them? Or as spares? Or is it more for collection?

I really liked my Venices, though I had the 2.2GHz ones for both s754 and s939

Is there anything particular with those Semprons btw? Perhaps as an overclocking project? 😜

Collection mostly, some of them might show up in some of my CPU tests (the QX6700 definitely will, not sure about the AMD ones at this time). Also I'll use them for hwbot overclocking.

No plans to use these CPUs for retro machines, they aren't suitable for this purpose (no point in using power hungry C2Q in i865 AGP board... and these A64 are too lowend for my taste 😀 ). Anyway - I bought the whole AMD package for rather low buy-it-now price as a surprise package (wasn't specified what particular models are in there). I have two similar lots on the way - one is 25x single-core LGA775, the other one 30x dual-core LGA775.... for minimum bid. They are cheap and easy to store (not much space occupied 🤣 ), so why not. Perhaps one day these things will be just as expensive like 486 is now.

From the last few weeks:

A(nother) Tulip AT Compact 3 system . This one came with an EGA adapter and monitor. Nice! It's a 12.5MHz 286.

Came with this IBM Model M keyboard (rubber dome):

Then my aunt brought me her old PC, a Pentium 4. Haven't really looked at it yet. Has a Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra motherboard.

Then I had an old friend over who told me he had 'some' SCSI stuff. He gave me this:

Ooooh 10k and 15k. Time for earplugs!

Then I spotted an ad with some free CPU's and happened to be the first to respond. The Slot A is a 700MHz part, but the heatspreader is missing.