Alt key bottom left, Ctrl and Caps Lock swapped? 😱

K7S41GX
https://www.asrock.com/mb/SIS/K7S41GX/#CPU

PS2 and USB don't work though. 🙁 will have to contact the seller

Deja vu, as I picked up another DFI ITOX G7S620-N motherboard.

I've been having a lot of fun with this board lately and decided to grab another while they are available. I may try modding one to use with Core 2 processors.

Those are really cool looking boards

double post due to technical difficulties. please delete.

My latest investment in the retro space is Geforce mx 460 (medion branded) card.

Something interesting came in today. I'm planning to go SCSI and W2K with this board. Not sure about the choice of graphics yet...

ECS P6FX2-A rev 1.1
2x Pentium Pro 166 512kB, it was already jumpered at 200 when it came in.
256MB RAM (8x 32MB)
Empty Dallas. As always.

Ah t'at is a very nice one! I remember when you had to buy the VRMs separately.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-7VT880-rev-10#ov
Socket A, Via KT-880 with dual channel DDR400.

Dirt cheap as it has bulging caps. Hope it works, fingers crossed.

Bought a Dell Precision M4400 "mobile workstation" ... I have one already, upgraded to a C2D mobile P8700, and 4Gigs of DDR2. I would've really liked 8Gigs, but 4Gig DDR2 SO-DIMMS cost an arm and a leg.

I stumbled across one then at the recycling station's store, and for some reason opened the lid (I actually remember seeing that lying there for some time now) Keyboard in pretty bad shape, BUT; To my surprise it had a "Core2Extreme" sticker on it...

ADD TO CART. 75DKK ~10US$

Came home, plugged it in, powered up, went to BIOS ... No way .. It's a QUAD Core C2QX <3 and it has the FULL 8Gigs of memory populated!

I kind of feel I've struck gold, seing the prices of DDR2 SO-DIMMs these days, as well as; How much is a C2QX worth?

So, doubling the number of cores, quadrupling the amount of L2 cache and doubling the memory for my "sometimes used 1920x1200 laptop with QuadroFX"

JustJulião wrote on 2024-02-06, 18:04:

I was very lucky on this one. An old ad on the classifieds french site "leboncoin" dating from February 2023 and entitled "11 co […]
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I was very lucky on this one.
An old ad on the classifieds french site "leboncoin" dating from February 2023 and entitled "11 computer sticks" appeared in my search results when I was looking for any type of Diamond Multimadia hardware.
It appeared because the seller mentioned "a Diamond plate and a Matrox plate" that would come with the RAM sticks and an intriguing photo that you can see here (the ad has since been removed).
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The price was 10€ + 4,40€ shipping so I just bought it.

Here is what it turned out to be :

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I know nothing about Matrox cards but it sure looks intriguing :
MATROX.jpg

I missed this one 😀

Are you located in France ? (just curious if leboncoin can ship to foreign countries)

nfraser01 wrote on 2024-02-07, 19:57:

Good condition and working Toshiba 3100e...

Nice, had very similar model once, think I might have got rid of it like a dumbass, vaguely remember a trade, I know it annoyed me at the time by having only minimum base RAM populated, but there's repro RAM boards now. It could still surprise me by turning up.

Kahenraz wrote on 2024-02-07, 20:37:

Alt key bottom left, Ctrl and Caps Lock swapped? 😱

Yes.. Turns out to be quite annoying 😒

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-02-08, 15:11:

nfraser01 wrote on 2024-02-07, 19:57:

Good condition and working Toshiba 3100e...

I know it annoyed me at the time by having only minimum base RAM populated, but there's repro RAM boards now. It could still surprise me by turning up.

Oooh. Interesting. Definately interested in increasing RAM if possible. Will have a look...

nfraser01 wrote on 2024-02-08, 16:19:

Kahenraz wrote on 2024-02-07, 20:37:

Alt key bottom left, Ctrl and Caps Lock swapped? 😱

Yes.. Turns out to be quite annoying 😒

I've always wondered how difficult it would be to modify the keyboard matrices on laptops to correct this.

I am equally discontent with manufacturers putting the Fn key on the bottom left where the Ctrl key should be. IBM and Lenovo does this. It's very annoying.

Kahenraz wrote on 2024-02-08, 16:43:

I am equally discontent with manufacturers putting the Fn key on the bottom left where the Ctrl key should be. IBM and Lenovo does this. It's very annoying.

At least one Lenovo laptop I had had a BIOS option to swap Fn and Ctrl. About a 6th gen i5 I think, don't know if the option was there before then... or even since.

I was chuffed to find the choice, check your machines' BIOSes.

Local thrifting here is usually pretty dire, but had a pretty good haul today at a mom & pop computer store:

Seanix RIVA 128 4MB PCI
Fastware Geforce 2 AGP (I think? possibly a TNT 2)
Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB AGP with giant Zalman passive heat sink
Radeon 9200 128MB AGP
Sound Blaster SB0460 X-Fi Extreme
2 x USB 2.0 cards w NEC chipset
2 x WD IDE HDs, 80GB and 200GB
LG DVD-RW IDE
HP DVD-RW SATA
Pentium Pro 200MHz
Corsair 450W modular PSU
Slot 1 to Socket 370 slocket (w Coppermine support!)

Everything was between $10 and $20 each.

Haven't tested any of this stuff, but I'm most excited about the slocket. It's an exact match for another one I have, so I might actually be able to get a dual slocketed system going. 😈

Nothing very special - an Palit/YUAN/Xpertvision Radeon 9000 64MB. Despite living in Bucharest, I think the seller might be originally from Ukraine, as most of his boards bear that Delta 23 sticker.

A recap will be in order by the way - I'm not trusting these Canicon (no you can't 🤣) caps to live much longer.

Pulled this Sound Blaster out of a machine I recently picked up...

Board is marked CT-1320U
Is this considered a SB 1.0? or 1.5? Google says it's a 1.5, but it has CMS chips, so I think it's considered a 1.0?

atari52oo wrote on 2024-02-09, 20:53:

Pulled this Sound Blaster out of a machine I recently picked up... […]
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Pulled this Sound Blaster out of a machine I recently picked up...

Board is marked CT-1320U
Is this considered a SB 1.0? or 1.5? Google says it's a 1.5, but it has CMS chips, so I think it's considered a 1.0?

sbcard.jpg

Amazing looking card. The sticker on the DSP is awesome and the blue caps are really striking. You can tell this was the early days of Creative where cost reduction wasn't on the forefront of everything they produced.

Edit: Oh, regarding version question, check DOSDays https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/sb_sbpro.php