dominusprog wrote on Today, 05:38:

Alexraptor wrote on Yesterday, 21:59:

riplin wrote on Yesterday, 20:19:

I still find it odd that the G450 has a grounded heat sink.

You know, I was actually wondering what that wire was for!

Grounding the heatsink done for eliminating the internal current of the chip. The output quality is excellent, but unfortunately the memory bus is 64 bits.

https://incompliancemag.com/proper-heatsink-grounding/

🤯 I have never heard of such a thing in my life. That's really interesting. I wonder why Matrox felt the need to do this when basically no one else ever did for a graphics card?

Got myself a Dreamblaster S2. I too, have now experienced the hanging note bug. 😀

Welp, test results for lot one:

- X1950 Pro 256MB - dead, artefacting
- Quadro 4 750XGL - same
- FX5900XT 128MB - surprisingly WORKING!
- Terratec Gold 16/96 - not yet tested
- mainboards all work, Soyo needs a bit of in-depth recapping and so does the ST6-RAID as the fan doesn't work, it seems

appiah4 wrote on 2025-05-07, 13:12:

I don't buy much anymore, but when one of my regular junkyard guys rang me up with two miserable looking 386 boards and CPUs I said OK and paid up.

They took a bit of work to get working, both had battery damage and one had pretty terrible corrosion all over. They both work now, though.

Very nice find! The MSI is one of the fastest 386 motherboard. May i ask please photos the area under the BIOS and Keyboard BIOS? I also have some corrosion there and would like to repair the board.

appiah4 wrote on 2025-05-07, 13:12:

I don't buy much anymore, but when one of my regular junkyard guys rang me up with two miserable looking 386 boards and CPUs I said OK and paid up.

They took a bit of work to get working, both had battery damage and one had pretty terrible corrosion all over. They both work now, though.

Very nice find! Is it possible tho ask photos under the BIOS and Keyboard BIOS areas? My MSI has also have corrosion problems... 🙁 Its one of the fastest 386 motherboard AFAIK.