Wow

So nice to see Artex back in action. 😁

Does anybody know if this is of any use / has any collectors value? I got this some month ago. It looks like a Siemens industrial mainbaord. There was a 80386 mounted on it which I already used for something else.

If you agree this is scrap I am going to desolder all parts as spare and throw the remains away...

Is that a proprietary riser card slot to the left or a usual 16bit ISA slot in a 90° angle?
If you ask me: I would keep it as it is for a few weeks - maybe you find a nice idea what to do with it. If not you can still salvage the board later on.

That would have no value in my collection as I would not know how to test it 😀

I would remove anything that is reusable.

Artex wrote:

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Awesome display as always Artex! Thanks for sharing.

Some great stuff in there - that Zalman is my cooler of choice in my P4, mainly for the look of it 😎

badmojo wrote:

Awesome display as always Artex! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks man! Always a pleasure!

Artex wrote:

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Dude. Your haul posts of awesomeness are like... like... the NeverEnding Story.

<snicker>... sorry.

My small collection of "frankenstein" AGP & PCIe Asrock motherboards, an ALiveDual-eSATA2, a 4CoreDual-SATA2 and a 939Dual-SATA2, the only variant I lack is the 775Dual-915GL and I'm not interested in it.

Unfortunately only the 4CoreDual-SATA2 works as it should, in fact right now it's holding a Pentium Dual 2180 overclocked to 2.2Ghz and 2GB of DDR2 ECC, runs XP and acts as my main retro testing rig; the 939Dual-SATA2 works but the PCIe 16x slot don't work and it's a bit flacky with memory; and the ALiveDual-eSATA2 don't even boot, I'm pretty sure it's memory related, when I bought it it has 4GB of memory and boots, I put some memory of my own and it doesn't boot, put back the original memory and still no boot 😢, it has a pair of swollen capacitors, one of them in the memory power circuit, I'm reasonably confident that if I recap it it will boot again.

Picked up an IBM Aptiva desktop today. Pentium 120, 16mb, 4gb, 6x CD-ROM.

Here's the seller's pic:

It's missing the front case cover, unfortunately, so it's a little fugly, but it all seems to work. I've been trying to find the manual to see if I can upgrade the CPU, but I think it's lost to the ages. Needs a good cleaning, has a strong "someone else's home" odour to it.

CkRtech wrote:

Artex wrote:

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Dude. Your haul posts of awesomeness are like... like... the NeverEnding Story.

<snicker>... sorry.

🤣. I see what you did there. 😎

Artex, that is quite a haul. I don't even want to know what all that cost. I think I saw a listing on eBay the other day that had one of those 3dfx ex-employee packages in it.

And what is with that Voodoo 3? That thing doesn't match any pictures I've ever seen of a Voodoo 3 and it isn't shown on Falconfly or the Dodge Garage. It looks like a knock off that someone made after getting a box of Voodoo 3 chips that "fell off a truck". 🤣

I must say the box looks familiar, did you or someone else post about that card recently?

Ozzuneoj wrote:

Artex, that is quite a haul. I don't even want to know what all that cost. I think I saw a listing on eBay the other day that had one of those 3dfx ex-employee packages in it.

And what is with that Voodoo 3? That thing doesn't match any pictures I've ever seen of a Voodoo 3 and it isn't shown on Falconfly or the Dodge Garage. It looks like a knock off that someone made after getting a box of Voodoo 3 chips that "fell off a truck". 🤣

I must say the box looks familiar, did you or someone else post about that card recently?

Yeah...the 3dfx stuff ended up going for more than I planned on.. But again I have a small? obsession for this company so whatevs. Yeah..the 3dfx card is weird... If that's what it really is. To be tested soon. Couldn't resist after seeing that ultra-generic box. The original post didn't even show the reverse side of the box so I contacted the seller to ensure there was a 3dfx logo somewhere and he confirmed. I have not posted about it previously, but I've never, ever seen a box like it so I just had to grab it. I mean.. It had Shrek on it..... So...

Artex wrote:

Ozzuneoj wrote:

Artex, that is quite a haul. I don't even want to know what all that cost. I think I saw a listing on eBay the other day that had one of those 3dfx ex-employee packages in it.

And what is with that Voodoo 3? That thing doesn't match any pictures I've ever seen of a Voodoo 3 and it isn't shown on Falconfly or the Dodge Garage. It looks like a knock off that someone made after getting a box of Voodoo 3 chips that "fell off a truck". 🤣

I must say the box looks familiar, did you or someone else post about that card recently?

Yeah...the 3dfx stuff ended up going for more than I planned on.. But again I have a small? obsession for this company so whatevs. Yeah..the 3dfx card is weird... If that's what it really is. To be tested soon. Couldn't resist after seeing that ultra-generic box. The original post didn't even show the reverse side of the box so I contacted the seller to ensure there was a 3dfx logo somewhere and he confirmed. I have not posted about it previously, but I've never, ever seen a box like it so I just had to grab it. I mean.. It had Shrek on it..... So...

Man, that's going to drive me crazy now. I just saw that box recently...

Where did you buy it? I have to know if I saw the one you bought or if there's another one out there... 🤣

probnot wrote:

Picked up an IBM Aptiva desktop today. Pentium 120, 16mb, 4gb, 6x CD-ROM.

Ooo, neat. A decade ago I found a similar one with P100; whoever owned it probably left it on 24/7 as the front 80mm fan had covered all interior surfaces with ~2" of dust... but it worked! Wish I had photos.

IIRC it's a socket 5 machine, so going above that P120 would probably necessitate OverDrive chips or similar.

EDIT: Found this. Could it be the manual? Jumper settings are on page 175.

Ozzuneoj wrote:

Artex wrote:

Ozzuneoj wrote:

Artex, that is quite a haul. I don't even want to know what all that cost. I think I saw a listing on eBay the other day that had one of those 3dfx ex-employee packages in it.

And what is with that Voodoo 3? That thing doesn't match any pictures I've ever seen of a Voodoo 3 and it isn't shown on Falconfly or the Dodge Garage. It looks like a knock off that someone made after getting a box of Voodoo 3 chips that "fell off a truck". 🤣

I must say the box looks familiar, did you or someone else post about that card recently?

Yeah...the 3dfx stuff ended up going for more than I planned on.. But again I have a small? obsession for this company so whatevs. Yeah..the 3dfx card is weird... If that's what it really is. To be tested soon. Couldn't resist after seeing that ultra-generic box. The original post didn't even show the reverse side of the box so I contacted the seller to ensure there was a 3dfx logo somewhere and he confirmed. I have not posted about it previously, but I've never, ever seen a box like it so I just had to grab it. I mean.. It had Shrek on it..... So...

Man, that's going to drive me crazy now. I just saw that box recently...

Where did you buy it? I have to know if I saw the one you bought or if there's another one out there... 🤣

https://m.ebay.com/itm/3dfx-V3000-16-Voodoo3- … 822?_mwBanner=1

I pulled this out of the dumpster at work right before the holiday.

I've been looking for a good 486 machine to run some old software I have (doesn't like to run in a stock VM) so I was a little excited when I saw this in with the trash. I checked it out after I got it home and it works perfectly! It's got Win 3.1 and Novell Netware on it along with a number of office and industrial software on it. The HD has a second partition loaded with DOS games. It's got 12MB of RAM too.

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probnot wrote:

Picked up an IBM Aptiva desktop today. Pentium 120, 16mb, 4gb, 6x CD-ROM.

Ooo, neat. A decade ago I found a similar one with P100; whoever owned it probably left it on 24/7 as the front 80mm fan had covered all interior surfaces with ~2" of dust... but it worked! Wish I had photos.

IIRC it's a socket 5 machine, so going above that P120 would probably necessitate OverDrive chips or similar.

EDIT: Found this. Could it be the manual? Jumper settings are on page 175.

Damn close. This one appears to be a 2134 C21. It is socket 7 though, so that's promising. I just went through all my 72pin ram and upgraded it from 16mb(4x4) to 32mb(4x8). Only other option was 128mb (4x32) but that seems excessive 🤣 According to the 2144 manual, I can install:

Pentium P54C-75MHz
Pentium P54C-100MHz
Pentium P54C-120MHz
Pentium P54C-133MHz
Pentium P54C-150MHz
Pentium P54C-166MHz

...so not much of an upgrade, since the only 166MHz or 200MHz CPUs I have are MMX (pretty sure it wouldn't work in this).

Also, I really gotta bag this thing until I give it a good scrub-down. The smell of musty curry is too powerful for me...

Artex wrote:

https://m.ebay.com/itm/3dfx-V3000-16-Voodoo3- … 822?_mwBanner=1

Okay good... that's the one I saw. Now I can stop searching through my history trying to find it... Thank you. 🤣

BTW, since you took the time to do this Artex, I'll never yell "STUPID HORSE!!!!" again... 😊

I got this little freak of nature for a few euros. Pretty useless, it's more a curiousity I think. I don't even own a 423 board (yet!). Came in the box with manuals etc.

Equipped with 'Hyper-miniature DIP switch'! 😀