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)
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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! 🤣
asus tx97-e, 233mmx, voodoo1, s3 virge ,sb16
asus p5a, k6-3+ @ 550mhz, voodoo2 12mb sli, gf2 gts, awe32
asus p3b-f, p3-700, voodoo3 3500TV agp, awe64
asus tusl2-c, p3-S 1,4ghz, voodoo5 5500, live!
asus a7n8x DL, barton cpu, 6800ultra, Voodoo3 pci, audigy1