havli wrote:

P2L97 - really cool HW. Everyone has i440BX... but LX was never very common and today isn't easy to find. I have two - P2L97-S (SCSI , yay 🤣 ) and P2L-B (AT). Maybe I'll use one of them for win98 build. Both are nice boards, just beware - with older than latest BIOS it locks up when connecting >32GB IDE HDD. And flashing the latest beta BIOS might be tricky using the included Asus flash tool. I don't remember exactly what happened but the board ended up bricked and I had to perform hotflash using uniflash and another MB.

I actually liked using my LX board. Mine was s370 though (so only Mendocino) and was of some OEM, but it worked very well for what it was.

Really underrated and very easy to setup. And no hassle with those Slot 1 HSFs as it could take basically any s5/s7/s370/sA HSF (except maybe when tehre's stuff blocking the larger heatsinks).

BX s370 is also a lot of fun though. Too bad I only got a single such board.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Nice find! Did you find it in our nice small country or somewhere else? Also if the 5AX or the P2B-DS is looking for a new home please let me know 😁

Nvm1 wrote:

I hit the jackpot last week while searching the web and the items arrived today 😈 .

It is not from the Netherlands, and also not on any big site so a good luck I found it. 🤣
I am warming up my soldering iron as we speak to remove the dreaded barrel batteries from the old mobo's and after that I will test them.
I actually like these mobo's so gonna see in a few weeks what I do with all the boards, who knows what happens 😊

Maxtor 6G160E0 160GB 7200RPM SATA-II HDD:

This is from the last Maxtor in-house-designed lineup (DiamondMax 17), which, from what I can tell from Google Images, were only manufactured between May-July of 2006. There are supposed to be two-disc 250 and 320GB versions, too, according to the datasheet, but these are apparently super rare or were never produced; only the single-platter 80 and 160GB models in IDE and SATA seem to be available in some quantity.

This one was packaged kind of sub-par (three layers bubble wrap + no anti-static bag) and all the way from France, but has zero SMART errors and no bad sectors after some stress testing. Not sure what I'll use it for, yet, other than to pad my HDD collection...

I won a PC Chips TX PRO M575 motherboard late last night.

The motherboard ended up costing $45 with shipping which is perhaps a bit expensive for a PC Chips Socket 7 board but it was an item I was looking for. I already own a PC Chips M560TG "Top Gun" motherboard and I'm curious if the ALi Aladdin 4 chipset gains performance with an extra 512KB cache for a total of 1MB.

The motherboard in question. (The sellers picture.)

Was at the scrapper again yesterday (LOVE to be there, might as well move).

Had a MEGA score this time! I look really closely to determine there is no real damage or parts missing and found 7 boards that needed my attention:

2x Asus p5a-b !!! Without bios chips but i hotflashed on my own board and got one of these working fine. The other spins the fans but will not post...for now. Don't see any damage, caps look fine.
2x Asus cusl2-c these have soldered bios chips 🤣 again, one working fine! and one posting but no keyboard working and had damage on the battery holder and one ram slot. Too bad, didn't see that.
1x Aopen ax59pro again without bios chip, hotflashed on my own board and it works fine!
1x Asus Cubx-L, grabbed 15 bios chips from a bucket so i had a few to play with at home and the one for this board was there! Lucky with the bios, but the board does not post. Does beep and spin fans. Will try again later...
1x Ga 486am/s 486 pci board, yes! Ofcourse without a bios chip. Found a fitting eeprom one but need to find a way to flash it (hotflash on later system?). Really hope it works. (made topic)

Also
1x Soundblaster isa CT1333A VERY dirty and a bit rusty, still need to test. Looks complete.
1x 3dfx voodoo1, No damage anywhere, tested and works but gives black/white with red colors so it is missing some color. don't know why (made topic).

So, i got so far fom this haul a working p5a-b, ax59pro and a cusl2-c. Still have a small chance on the cubx-l and really hope the 486 pci works. Not bad, every single visit big scores so far!

Took me 2 hours of searching and paid 30 euro for this lot. It is cheap but it is a gamble, if you see the road this stuff takes to get to the big bag that i found them in......it is amazing this stuff still works. We treat these parts very delicately but it can handle the life of a football...... really.

The recycler told me that a few years ago it was 50/50 with the old and the newer stuff and now only 10% is old. From that 10% there is a LOT of stuff that is not pc compatible and a lot of server stuff. So let's say there is 1-2 % from the 286 to the p3 era. Bios chips are removed, bigger alu heatsinks (from regulators and such) are broken off and stuff gets damaged from beeing in a very big pile.

So it is a challenge to find stuff that still looks okay and hopefully was at least working when it was dumped. But boy, do i love that challenge! 🤣

Well not bought but traded my Panasonic CD drive which was pcmcia to scsi for Dreamcast with controller.
Kinda hardware,my consoles collection keeps growing.

Pic taken after i washed it,it was from smokers house.

rein_ein wrote:

Well not bought but traded my Panasonic CD drive which was pcmcia to scsi for Dreamcast with controller.
Kinda hardware,my consoles collection keeps growing.

Pic taken after i washed it,it was from smokers house.

Time to get a VGA adapter so you can use it on the same monitor as your retro computers. 😀

I was walking through an indoor flea market and found a guy selling old computer parts and older laptops/desktops as legacy gaming machines (graybox Dells loaded with Doom 3 and others, etc). He was an older gentleman who also liked to collect antique computer parts and has started selling his collection. He had tons of stuff, a box literally full of SB Live! cards with a few AudioPCI cards and others mixed in, a box full of IDE hard drives ranging from 10-40 GB, box full of beige floppy drives, three IDE Zip drives with sealed Zip disks, stacks of printers, monitors, three boxes of IDE beige and black CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives, etc etc.

He also had an IBM Aptiva tower that he said he was going to restore someday to play just pure DOS games.

Anyways, after we hit it off and discussed old PCs he showed me a few boxes he kept away as the cards were untested. I spent around $35 and got a box of parts and that Aptiva tower.

I got:

IBM Aptiva 2137 tower (AMD K6 200, 24MB SDRAM, dead 2.1GB Quantum Bigfoot) for $5 (He said he knew I'd take better care of it than him as he didn't have time to restore it anymore 😀 )
2x Creative SoundBlaster AWE64 CT4520 for $6
1x Creative SoundBlaster Vibra16C CT2960 for $2
2x Creative SoundBlaster PCI 128 CT4750 for $3 (He gave one of them to me for free 😀 )
1x Creative SoundBlaster AudioPCI 64 CT5803 for $2
1x PNY GeForce2 MX 400 for $2 (Severe artifacting, card is dead. Will probably throw away or try to give away to someone)
1x ATi Rage 128 for $3
1x Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446BV-HC-B for $2
1x Diamond Stealth Video 2500 for $2
1x Quantum Fireball 20.5 GB IDE HDD for $10

Overall this was a great haul. Sans the PNY GeForce, everything else is working perfectly. He even linked me to a Craigslist ad for about 12 towers I am going to get next weekend so I will definitely report when I get those 🤣

never ending story ... new schrott knocking at my door

"LGA" 286

mobile CPU

2x slot1 board by F-S with i820 for RIMM, 2x 1GHz PIII on it and like bonus 1066MHz modules

some new era stuff, Tyan 2x s940 with AGP Pro

of course another DDR1 to my poor collection

thats all 😁

bluff ... cant missing some graphics parts

3Dlabs Wildcat

HP FX5 with G200

Accel Galaxy

EGA? Yamaha

Hercules G2 Ultra

NV G2 Quadro PRO

some Leadteks 6800 LE

and same gpu by Sparkle

PNY (MSI) G4 Ti4600 and G4 Ti4200 with BGA by Asus

and last photo G4 Quadro and other PCIE Quadro

boxpressed wrote:

Time to get a VGA adapter so you can use it on the same monitor as your retro computers. 😀

Ye,i thought so before as it save me pretty damn space nearby but still not decided yet which better should i get one for vga or one for hdmi.

chose007 wrote:

never ending story ... new schrott knocking at my door

*droolable snips*

on topic: you got damn nice haul there

I was about to say LGA 286, too!
I had been using that Tyan S2885 + 2x Opteron 280 + FireGL X2 AGP Pro as my main work horse from 2013 to 2015. I am still occasionally using that machine. I can't get FireGL Z1/X1/X2 to work stably in 8x mode, tho; had to downgrade to 4x. My board might be faulty.
Does the FX5 work on X86 PCs? It's from PA-RISC IIRC.

This HP FX5 came from Vizualize workstation which iam owning. Working on dual PIII and original system was NT 4.0 ... so must work 😀
PCI 64bits version without G200 came from RISC machines

I posted all these cards few months ago so again for compare, thats third piece of FX AGP ... better keep more than nothing 😁

chose007 wrote:

This HP FX5 came from Vizualize workstation which iam owning. Working on dual PIII and original system was NT 4.0 ... so must work 😀
PCI 64bits version without G200 came from RISC machines

Good to know that! Nice card! It must be faster than G200, I guess? 🤣

OMG 😳 😳 😳 Them's good porn pardner! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Choose007:
Wow.... 😳 (hard time keeping drool inside my mouth)

As for me... Nothing much, only this card for 14.30 US Dollars including shipping.
It should be the 128mb version of a GF3-ti200, according to the seller.
(Sellers picture) It looks like it is in good shape.

I want GF 2 Ultra! 007 is the chosen one 😊 😊 😎 😲

And the Hercules Ultra looks so nice, a real beauty.

My precious *strokes small plastic boxes in an indecent way*

Local listing 20€. You never see these available, although this was advertised a lot more in our magazines than any Creative card and must've sold quite well. And not that I check the listings, I see there's actually another one for 25€, what are the odds?!

These also came up from the same seller. Sold only in sets, 20-30€ / each. I'm a bit tempted on the 386/486 lot, but there's a bit of junk there too... 😢

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Skyscraper wrote:

My precious *strokes small plastic boxes in an indecent way*

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Nice! Already have any plans for those? 😀